Category Archives: Design

How to Build and Launch a Social News Site in 21 Days

Social media websites have made a huge splash on the Internet as we know it. No longer do editors dictate what is news, and what is important. The power belongs to the masses on social news sites, which is a huge reason for their traction and loyal users.
It’s no surprise that developing a niche social [...]

Are Your Visitors Suffering From Widget Blindness?

Photo by YanivG.
Widgets are excellent for adding unique functionality to a web site. However, as the we becomes more “widgetized”, it’s starting to add strain on the web browsing experience for our users. The more widgets we add to our web pages, the worse it makes the web.
Widget Blindness
Banner blindness was discovered in the late [...]

Taking Back the Homepage: 12 Ways to Design For the Fickle Web User

Photo by jstar.
It appears that the glory days of the homepage are almost over. Jakob Nielsen has been finding that web users are becoming more and more fickle. Instead of going to the homepage and nosing around the site using categories and site searches, people are instead using Google to find everything and landing on [...]