Four Seasons recently launched a massive overhaul of their website. E-consultancy readers everywhere immediately chipped in their critiques of the effectiveness of the $18m expenditure.

There’s a lot of crap going on in the world right now: terrorism, two major wars, and worldwide economic collapse. Let’s not forget the lack of movement on climate change and serious unrest in the Middle East and other places.

The secret to winning fans and pleasing customers might just be simplicity of design. We talked to a trio of user-experience pros about how they create intuitive (and highly successful) products.

The argument for “designing in the browser” seems very seductive at first glance. The web is an interactive medium that defies the fixed canvas of traditional layout tools, so why not use the browser as your primary design environment?

It’s a case of the user’s power being seized by the designer, albeit a very tiny amount.

He’s been working in the field of usability since 1978 – before the term was ever associated with computers.

Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes.

So it’s the second day of SXSW Interactive 2012 and I was looking for an interesting presentation to check out and I flipped through my pocket guide and came across a featured session called “The Secret Lives Of Links” given by Jared Spool.

I explain how to improve the bounce rate of your website with the help of a simple A/B test. I don’t think I ever told anyone about this test up until now.

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