Part and parcel to the user experience discipline (and any discipline involved in website creation) is establishing user goals. If visitors have come to your site then you can be sure that they’re looking to accomplish something, be it gathering information, contributing to a community, or ordering one of your products. Clearly defining your user’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UX’
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 [...]
Two User Experience Tools We Love
21 Dec , 2010
When the Atlantic BT User Experience team gets involved in a project, we’re presented with a great opportunity to tell a website’s story. With the help of our clients, we tell it with outlines, content maps, user stories, wireframes and more. By telling most of the story up front, we allow the designers and developers [...]
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 [...]
WAVE yourself to better Accessibility
21 Sep , 2009
Over 1.6 Billion people use the Internet every day. (Source: Internet World Stats) No joke. Now imagine the potential impact that the web has on those people if a website becomes unusable, or even inaccessible. This potential impact becomes even greater if we look at websites that generate revenue (i.e. E-commerce). WebAIM believes that roughly [...]