Using The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine To Improve User Experience
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The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which archives screencaps of your website, has been around for some time and it’s just as useful now as ever. Sure, it’s fun to see how some of the cringe-worthy designs from 2001 but go back within the last year and look for changes. Outside of something like your homepage hero image, is anything different? If not, then you just discovered a problem that needs to be addressed and here’s how you can go about fixing it.
Begin Thinking About User Experience As Your Brand
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Does your organization still design print material first then use that as the basis for your online design? If so, you’re not only behind the marketing curve, you’re losing ground at record speed. Case in point, take a good hard look at Google’s Material Design language, their formal effort to begin standardizing user experience with specs that continuously evolve. Without getting into too much of the geeky details, Material Design shatters the notion that brand ...
Master Responsive Web Design With Chrome’s Device Emulator
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[box style=”note”]There is a more recent version of this article available that includes updated instructions on how to activate and use this Google Chrome tool.[/box] One of the single most daunting problems arts orgs face when converting to responsive design is embracing the mobile first concept; meaning, you no longer envision website design from a desktop-only or desktop-first perspective. Instead, you need to begin with the mobile browser environment and work your out from there. ...
IKR? I'm keeping an eye on it and if Chrome releases an update that returns the ability to adjust the…