Usability Design
by Garth A. Buchholz | DigitalPractices Media Inc. ISSN 1920-1893
Categories: content, digital practices, info management, mal practices, reference, web analytics, web managers | Comments Off

Why we can, and should, preserve content on the Internet
An ocean is never the same body of water because it’s always moving changing, evaporating and being replenished by new rainwater and runoff. Likewise, Internet content is an ocean of information that with content that is evaporating almost as quickly as new content flows into it.
We’ve [...]

Categories: content, contentology, customer experience, digital practices, information design, interaction design, mal practices, navigation design, reference, usability, web analytics, web design, web strategy | 1 Comment

With apologies to Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten, here are the Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design, from someone who has worked as a Web Manager and Web Strategist for many years:
1. The Web Strategy doesn’t follow the Business Strategy.
Whether you’re designing for a Fortune 1000 corporation, a SOHO business, a government agency or a non-profit, [...]

Categories: digital practices, intranets, usability, web analytics, web managers, web metrics, web strategy | Comments Off

Web analytics practices for intranets are fundamentally different than those applied to Internet sites. Internet analytics ask: Who is using the site? What days of the week and what hours of the day receive the most traffic? What browsers are people using when they visit the site? Why are people visiting the site? With intranets, [...]

Categories: digital practices, eBusiness, governance, reference, web analytics, web managers, web strategy | Comments Off

Many Corporate Web sites are developed before the owning organization has signed off on a Corporate Web Strategy, which should act as the governing document for all Internet-driven initiatives.
If Web development isn’t driven by an alignment of sustainable technology, user-driven content and business-driven goals, the corporate Web presence will either fail to meet your business [...]

Categories: best practices, bioteaming, project management, self-organization, usability, user-centred design, web analytics, web design, web strategy | Comments Off

A new IBM research report suggests that the best analogies for businesses in the future may no longer be the command structures of the military but the self-organising networks found in nature: schools of fish, flocks of birds and swarms of insects. This research, contained in The IBM Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 Report, reinforces Bioteam [...]