Constantly looking looking for easy ways to aggregate those searches on buzz sites that you find yourself doing daily? I certainly do and came across this fun little tool. Addictomatic claims to search the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It allows you to keep up [...]

You may have noticed that with the release of this post, I’ve added a little “Feedback” tab on the left side of my website so I can, more or less, be my own lab rat for purposes of this discussion. If for some reason it doesn’t exist, this is simply a widget to access my [...]

Earlier in the year, Sanitarium Health Food Company, scrambled to redesign a Weet-Bix promotion, for which they had already spent $1.3 million, featuring All Blacks collector cards because the children that the website was aimed at was a bit too hit-tech and difficult to use. Article here.
But this post isn’t about a particular misstep. It [...]

The next time you are taking that final run through on your laptop or desktop of that brilliant website or application your team just built, consider hitting a simple record button. And capture.
Instructional documentation is an extremely important part of product support. But it could also prove to be mind-numbing to create. Especially if you [...]

I was fortunate enough to be a part of a discussion last week on LinkedIn about opinions around using usability evaluation tools as well as recommendations on what others have used successfully on client projects.  If you want to simply access my bookmarks here. My immediate response was this:
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Automatic usability evaluation applications have their place [...]

As an advocate of being consistent at every point of contact, I began taking a better look at my digital properties this week. And I started with Twitter. Sure I did the normal tweaking the color palette a little and uploaded a custom backdrop but it really didn’t jive all that much with the look [...]

It is easy to spend hours exploring iconography in a new website design. After all, these powerful little pieces of pixel art take advantage of the cognitive process the mind undergoes as it makes sense out of shapes and colors and associates them with an action. They are the visual symbols through which the user [...]

Definitely hip on any new gadgets let alone one that brings together my social spaces. Today, Fallon, the shop that 27 years ago opened its doors, without a single client, under the headline, – “A new advertising agency for companies that would rather outsmart the competition than outspend them.” – launched a new logo, a [...]

Press Release Grader (www.pressreleasegrader.com) not only assigns your press release a grade of 1 to 100, but claims to be able to tell you exactly what you must do to improve it. Just cut and paste your press release into the window on their site, complete the form and click on “Grade Press Release.” Within [...]