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Design Lessons from Well Designed Album Covers

By: Oleg Mokhov October 5th, 2010 21 Comments

Electronic musician and new UX Booth contributor Oleg Mokhov takes readers through a series of well-designed album art and shows what the clever designer can learn from them.

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Design Lessons from Well Designed Album Covers

Decoupling Usability and Visuals

By: Dan Ritzenthaler July 1st, 2010 14 Comments

Usability and visual design are two areas that are heavily dependent on each other. They affect each other dramatically and each requires an understanding of how people will use and visualize the content. Pulling them apart, where possible, is a great way to understand how they impact the overall design and reduce the time and energy wasted in your creative process.

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Decoupling Usability and Visuals

Transparency: Benefits and Best Practices

By: Matthew Kammerer November 17th, 2009 34 Comments

When you visit a website of a business do you ever wonder who is behind that business? Being transparent online and in business has a plethora of benefits. Users gain trust and have the ability to see the human side of the business. The effects are incredible, from increasing sales to finding like minded clients.

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Transparency: Benefits and Best Practices

Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

By: David Leggett July 14th, 2009 73 Comments

With Photoshop, are you really paying attention to how you’re saving images for the web? Optimizing images can drastically decrease load times when done properly!

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Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences, Part 3: The Craft

By: Andrew Maier June 23rd, 2009 12 Comments

In this third and final installment of the Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences series, we detail the actual process of successfully picking and implementing a color scheme.

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Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences, Part 3: The Craft

Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 2, The Medium

By: Andrew Maier May 26th, 2009 23 Comments

Coloring the online user experience has never been an easy task; but it’s getting easier. Looking back at older web pages, we can see an obvious evolution of the medium. In this article we explore color on the web so that readers may form a working knowledge of the limitations of a web-browser. Lastly, we look ahead to how color will be treated in future versions of CSS.

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Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 2, The Medium

Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 1, Theory

By: Andrew Maier April 23rd, 2009 51 Comments

Color is one of the most important parts of your website. However, far too often color enters the equation as an afterthought or, worse, not all all. This isn’t adequate. Color help define how users perceive information. To add to the complexity of this issue, most of the judgements people make about your site’s color schemes are subconscious. They may not provide any feedback about your site’s color, but they’re always thinking about it.

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Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 1, Theory

Tabbed Navigation, and What Makes it Useful

By: David Leggett April 7th, 2009 43 Comments

Navigating the web is a bit unorthodox when you think about it. You click words to teleport around an endless expanse. You’d think there would be someway to create an interface that is reminiscent of the real world—something like tabbed navigation.

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Tabbed Navigation, and What Makes it Useful

Good Call-To-Action Buttons

By: David Hamill March 19th, 2009 139 Comments

The call-to-action button is an important tool in the user experience designer’s box of tricks. In this article I’ll give you a few pointers on providing effective ones.

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Good Call-To-Action Buttons

Design with the User in Mind

By: Jonathan Wolfe February 12th, 2009 26 Comments

You cannot run a successful website without having the design and functionality geared towards your users. This guest post runs through some reasons why it’s important to work hard at building great user experiences.

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Design with the User in Mind
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