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Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Tim 25 Jan 2013

One Page Wonders?

Tweet Back in September last year, I asked if one page was enough? In 2013 it appears a single page website will be ample. The modern online world is about interactions and most of those take place on social networks – shared platforms not owned by brands or companies, but simply where some of them [...]

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Tim 16 Nov 2012

Why those years of the chocolate egg with a toy weren’t wasted

By Tim in Design

Tweet If you enjoyed – or perhaps still enjoy – fixing and making feats of engineering then the next few years are set to be very exciting for you. Our sister site 123-reg recently reported the potential of Web 3.0 and led heavily on 3D printing as likely to be the biggest change in the [...]

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Tim 10 Oct 2012

5 Colour Collusion tools

By Tim in Design

Tweet Colour collusion? Well how colour interacts with your your website covertly and how it can improve your business. Did you know that colour can be one of the strongest influences on purchasing decisions. This Kissmetric infographic suggests how important it can be.                 So we’ve trawled our bookmarks [...]

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Tim 25 Jul 2012

What’s app? Will HTML5 spell the end for apps?

By Tim in Design, Development

Tweet OK, so its been claimed many times in the past year or so that HTML5 is set to revolutionise our world, but now the revolution is almost upon us. HTML forms the backbone of the internet we know and love. People know it and some people even love and understand it. It was way [...]

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Tim 12 Jul 2012

Black, grey, red or blue – What colour says about you

By Tim in Design

Tweet Are you running your own business? Consider these questions and if not ask them of your client. What are your brand colours? How did you choose them? What do you think the colour alone says about you as a brand? What do the colours of your competitors say about them? It’s an interesting concept [...]

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Tim 18 May 2012

UX design thoughts for the weekend

By Tim in Design

Tweet The User-experience is what it is all about. Not the googlebots, not the QA testing team, not the in-house sales staff. If your website is customer-facing, the customer’s user experience and customer journey should be top of your list before you even put pen to paper. It’s become a bit of a trendy term [...]

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Alexandra 03 May 2012

Why we get angry when our favourite sites change their look?

By Alexandra in Design

Tweet When a site changes how it looks or functions, it is rarely met with a positive reaction. Take for instance the re-design of the popular Digg website that was announced by a staff member in a recent blog post. Not long after the announcement was made, over 2,000 negative comments had been made by [...]

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Tim 01 Nov 2011

Understanding how your customers see your website

Tweet You can test, QA, check all you like but the chances are you will never spot every potential issue with your new-look website before you put it live. Yet, you needn’t just be responsive when a customer raises a problem with you, you can also be proactive too. Monitor your up-time The chances are [...]

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Tim 23 Sep 2011

Auntie reveals new look

By Tim in Design, Development

Tweet The BBC are doing it again. The public service broadcaster may get considerable criticism for the money it ploughs into its online ventures but nobody could deny they are not well designed and created on the back of customer feedback. Last year we wrote Where the BBC leads and 18 months on some of [...]

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Tim 15 Sep 2011

Slash the Flash

Tweet That’s the warning to those who love animations in their web design. With the growth in iPad tablet sales  expected to continue why eliminate a sector of your audience so instantly, especially when those using iPads are more likely to be the upwardly mobile, decision-makers or those with a higher disposable income? Then there [...]

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