Great arti­cle on Smash­ing Mag­a­zine about the rec­og­niz­able things we web developers/designers  always come across when deal­ing with clients. The usual “make my logo big­ger” phrase is well one heard quite often — Smash­ing Mag­a­zine includes an nice chart that illus­trates the size of the logo and what it says about the company.

Sum­mary:
“At the end of the day you are at the mercy of the client, and you need to meet all of their require­ments. But you also have to rec­og­nize your value and be able to demon­strate it through exam­ples, research and log­i­cal argu­ments. Be respon­sive: ask a lot of ques­tions in order to under­stand the client’s moti­va­tion. I endorse client edu­ca­tion, but not to the point of los­ing the client and project. Remem­ber that your client is a resource to you, and good com­mu­ni­ca­tion will enable both of you to com­plete the project in time to watch the men’s figure-skating competition.”

Web­site: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/23/educating-your-client-on-web-development-successfully/

clients · logo · webdesign · webdevelopment

Sum­mary:

Web users spend 80% of their time look­ing at infor­ma­tion above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allo­cate only 20% of their atten­tion below the fold.

Jakob Nielsen has posted a new arti­cle about Web Usabil­ity guide­lines. Quite shock­ing is the fact about “the fold” where I also thought that this wasn’t an issue any­more — but accord­ing to Jakob Nielsen 80% of Web usabil­ity guide­lines from the 1990s are still in force.

Very inter­est­ing and nice arti­cle to read — which made me more alert to the way we should design our websites.

Read the arti­cle : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

guidelines · Usability · webdesign