Marshall Brain (@brainstuffHSW) from HowStuffWorks.com took the stage to kick off day 2 of the Internet Summit in Raleigh and threw down a great argument for why we should care less about design and more about function.
Posts Tagged ‘user experience’
One Web Page is Better Than None
12 Jan , 2011
When I tell people I work at a web design company, they often respond with “I really need a website for my _____.” More often than not, they should have said “I really need a web page.” This weekend, I came across a tumblelog called “Never said about restaurant websites“. In Raleigh, we have a [...]
No One Likes the Mobile-to-Desktop Hand-Off When Snow is Coming
28 Dec , 2010
Like many holiday travelers this past December, I was recently reminded that nature was really in charge of my family’s holiday travel plans. Nature has blizzards. All I have is a GPS and a snow brush. Not one to panic, I quickly turned to the internet to solve my problems. I fired up my mobile [...]
6 Things Video Games Can Teach Us About Web Usability
13 Nov , 2009
Those who think video games are not educational, this post is for you. Not only can video games be an enjoyable experience, they can teach us many things. Websites and video games often use similar concepts about usability in order to achieve an amazing end-product. I’ve come up with 6 essential concepts that video games [...]