Usability Design
by Garth A. Buchholz | DigitalPractices Media Inc. ISSN 1920-1893
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A clever list of  free* Internet guerilla marketing tactics to help promote your product, service or website instantly:  Create a Google Gadget. You can create Google Gadgets such as a countdown timer (to an event), a list (of ideas, suggestions, products, etc), a microblog (what you’re doing or working on) or a YouTube channel (videos about [...]

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Normally I advise Web Managers not to create new sites with new domain names just because they think it’s the only way to promote new content. You have to be able to rely on your homepage to feature new content, and if your homepage doesn’t change enough, your users may become afflicted with the “Watching [...]

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Most Web sites would receive a failing grade when it comes to providing transparent, comprehensive and responsive “contact” content. When Web customers click on a link, that’s an interaction, but when they submit a contact request, that’s a transaction of information – they’re send you their personal “content” and expecting the site to respond accordingly. [...]

Categories: accessibility + ud, best practices, customer experience, eBusiness, eCommerce, eMarketing, information design, interaction design, usability, web management, web managers, web strategy | Comments Off

Most Web sites receive a failing grade when it comes to providing transparent, comprehensive and responsive “contact” content.   When Web customers click on a link, that’s an interaction, but when they submit a contact request, that’s a transaction of information – they’re send you their personal “content” and expecting the site to respond accordingly. They’re [...]

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When I was updating my information on LinkedIn.com, a business networking site that allows professionals to create and expand their own private networks of colleagues, clients and consultants, it occurred to me that in an open Internet environment where it’s hard to know who you can trust (e.g. what used to be called “cold calling” [...]