Levi Myers
Manager, User Experience
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As technology changes, design changes to adapt. Consider screen resolutions over time. In the past decade, designs have moved from accommodating 640 x 480 (still over 10% of users in 2000) to 800 x 600, and now to at least 1024 x 768 pixels (with around 75% of users having higher resolutions).
SIAST Careers: A case study in web strategy
filed inBusiness
A better online experience was the prerogative for SIAST’s career redesign. This stemmed from an off-line mandate to increase job applications and awareness of career opportunities. As an educational institute, the focus of their web audience is, appropriately, students and prospective students. In order to properly target a career-seeking audience, we recommended a site separate from the main, student-focused site.
Points on usability: eliminate pagination
filed inCreative
Is pagination good usability? Obviously it depends on the use, but from a user experience view it’s generally not good usability. So why is it so common?
Navigation priority
filed inCreative
It’s a common practice to prioritize navigation into a primary navigation with essential functions and divert other information to less prominent navigation.
The case for interface simplicity
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I hate the design of my alarm clock. The top surface is cluttered with a bewildering array of buttons and sliders—some buttons are randomly located on the side, and for some reason there’s a built-in CD player with even more buttons and controls. For me, the ideal alarm clock would: display the time without blinding me at night; allow me to set the alarm in the dark with ease; and let me turn off the alarm while I’m still only half-conscious. In the end all the ’extra features’ get in the way of the primary purpose.
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