Why your website sucks #6: Salter Rex
Despite the weather, the summer months are upon us and the race to find new properties is on. With depressingly low stocks battling a rising tide of demand, it's more important now more than ever for...
View ArticleNow you see it, now you don’t: 5 cognitive illusions
We've long been fascinated with visual illusions and trompe d'oeil, but beyond their entertainment value, these tricks are also a powerful means of understanding the way in which our visual brains...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #7 BMW
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on the Top 10 car websites for 2011. Whilst I was trawling the web for beautifully designed sites, I was surprised to see just how many high-end brands'...
View ArticleEye gaze patterns: image vs. text websites
One of the most accurate ways of judging a website's usability and layout design is by using eye tracking. In 2006, Nielsen carried out such a study and found that users consistently tend to focus on...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #8 Cdiscount – In collaboration with DesignSpartan
Deconstructing Cdiscount‘s French website This month, we’ve teamed up with leading French design and Tech blog DesignSpartan, to analyse a website voted for deconstruction by their readers. When it...
View ArticleYour personality predicts your online behaviour (1)
Chances are you’ll have encountered a personality test at some point in your career. Whether you like these tests or not, decades of research have shown that our personality traits go a long way in...
View ArticleGiants, slingshots and shakeweights: The secret to customer-centric success
Image credit: David and Goliath, by Gareth Foster Kicking us off with what it means to be truly customer centric, this week I had the pleasure of chatting with Bryan Eisenberg on The Good, The Bad...
View ArticleWeb psychology, Michelin star restaurants, and sex and UX
Have you ever wondered why some websites are just so seductive? Or how certain platforms (whether they’re blogs, shops or YouTube channels) just keep you coming back for more? In this first of the...
View ArticlePodcast Episode #29 – Joe Leech
This week our guest is Joe Leech, a User Experience Director at cxpartners who writes for various websites & magazines on the subject of usability. Tweet your insights using the hashtag...
View ArticlePodcast #48: Jared Spool
Jared Spool is an author, usability expert and founder of User Interface Engineering. Tweet your insights using the hashtag #goodbaddirty. If you enjoyed this, please leave a review on iTunes!...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #5 Currency UK
Spring is in the air, and it's the time of year in which we seem to take more risks, make big decisions, change jobs, move house. With fresh starts happening all around us, I thought it would be...
View ArticleEffects of colours on emotion
It's a common theme among design bloggers to make claims on the effects of colours in web design. Whilst it is certainly true that you can use colours to create certain reactions in a viewer, it's rare...
View ArticleIntro: Why Your Website Sucks
Whilst you might find it pretty easy to read up on research investigating the effects of language and colour on viewers and their behaviours, you’d be hard-pushed to come across much literature on the...
View ArticleWeb Design Psychology: The Principles
This may seem counter-intuitive, but you should never, ever start a website project with the design. To start with, all you need is your client, a pad, and a pen. Your goal here is to find out what’s...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #1 THE CUBE
To kick off this series we’ve teamed up with THECUBE to document the process involved in applying Web Design Psychology (TM) to deconstruct a website before re-designing it from the ground up. Below...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #2 The Ritz Club
For this second post in our series, we thought we'd tackle a different beast altogether. We've chosen a high-end website aimed at a specific target demographic (the super-affluent), with a particular...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #3 Warwick University Library
This month we received an anonymous submission by a reader, who requested that we deconstruct Warwick University's Library website. Given that "This site is very important to thousands of students and...
View ArticleWhy your website sucks: #4 Ryanair
With the impending bank holiday and Royal celebrations now nearly upon us, I thought it would be topical to dissect a low-cost airline's website. And since I'm actually flying out with Ryanair in a few...
View Article10 things every non-profit website needs
This month we're looking at 10 things that every charity website should know when designing a website. In June I've been invited to speak at the Third Sector Social Media on the topic of how Charities...
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