Category: Web Industry Blog

Other websites that I find appealing, or can learn from in some capacity.

Web Industry Blog

How to Get User for User Testers

Ethnio is a screener you put on your website to recruit users for user testing. The user can contact you and then you can arrange for them to do some user testing with 3rd party …

Web Industry Blog

Developing a Top App

I just love this article about app development, and I am linking to it here so I can come back to it and refer my employer to it at some time.  It is absolutely ridiculous …

Web Industry Blog

Who to Follow in UX

This is to remind myself of who to go follow.  I can’t do it right this second because I’m at work, but here is the article.  Some people I’m already following.   http://uxdesign.cc/how-to-keep-up-do-date-on-ux-design

Developers Diary

Responsive Email Paterns

Responsive emails are hard. I usually defer such things to MailChimp or a MailChimp template.  Some of these patterns I am going to try, and I am particularly interested in the overlaying of the text …

Web Industry Blog

Codeschool and Raven Graphic

My notepad of web design related topics I want to keep: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ (https://www.codeschool.com/courses; nice but I have recently gained access to another training site.) I just love Raventools graphic visual reminder of whats important: http://raventools.com/blog/prioritize-seo-website-audit/ Directly …

Bill Scott http://designingwebinterfaces.com/authors
Web Industry Blog

Bill Scott, UX Design Team Training

Recent access to a training video website  introduces me to Bill Scott, UX Engineering Process. Experience from Netflix & Paypal allows for industry related stories during the 5 hour lecture.  My notes below, with bold …

Web Industry Blog

Analytics Tools – Finding Mentions

I am interested in how these types of analytics tools are made and where they pull data from.  This one finds mentions of your brand that has not been linked. With this data you can …

Web Industry Blog

New Challenge: Sketching Everyday

At the beginning of the year I was feeling quite ambitious and really looking for a new years resolution. I quietly picked “a photo a day” as my project, but never really felt that connected …

Web Industry Blog

Trends in Main Navigation for Desktop

We’re used to seeing this on mobile design, but now we are starting to see it on desktop as well. These trends in main navigation for desktop definitely makes designing & coding the responsive design …

Web Industry Blog

Inspiration Websites for Researching

I plan on researching this list a little bit more. I already have Smashing in my FB  news feed, and I already spend time on Pinterest. I keep my inspiration library on  http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandynichols/sets/72157611410173422/