We recently completed a project for YOUR Insurance, a part of the Towergate Group Ltd. The project was a full conversion design project, including a complete rebrand to position itself as a leading business insurance quote comparison solution.
Along with the usual functional usability testing on the comparison prototype, we also completed some emotional response feedback [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web design’
Is web design really subjective?
8 June 2010 | Posted by Sarah Graveling | Creative Director | Experience DesignTags: Conversion Design, Usability, User Experience, User testing, web design
Should you use CSS3 now?
28 April 2010 | Posted by Craig Dennis | Junior Designer | Experience DesignTags: Browser, Cross-Browser, CSS, CSS3, Experimental, Future, web design
CSS3 is the next generation of stylesheet due to be rolled out across the web when it is finalised. It has been ongoing since 2002 and is still not completed so when it will be finalised is anyone’s guess.
Most browsers (except IE) support at least some of the CSS3 properties that allow web design to [...]
The wonderous (and sometimes forgotten) world of white space
1 March 2010 | Posted by Craig Dennis | Junior Designer | Experience DesignTags: Design, Design Elements, Examples of White Space, Good Design Practice, Spacing, Web, web design, White space
For this post the examples are focussed on web design however the points remain true with many other forms of design.
For those unfamiliar with the term white space, here is what Wikipedia have to say about it:
“White space or whitespace refers to the blank (white) area between written characters or graphic regions.” – Wikipedia
This is a [...]
The mobile web – Part 1: The real mobile web and the mobileOK validator
18 January 2010 | Posted by Lavelle Hurley | Designer | Experience DesignTags: mobile web, mobileOK, w3c, web design
One of the biggest misunderstandings most people have when talking about the mobile web, is that they usually assume that it refers to the web when viewed through a smart-phone device, such as an iPhone. But this is not the case. In fact just because a website looks good on an iPhone, does not necessarily [...]
Web design trends we lost in 2009
16 December 2009 | Posted by Sarah Graveling | Creative Director | Experience Design, Search, UncategorizedTags: below the fold, designing for SEO, Flash, frame, IE6, web design
Do you still think “above the fold” or think that multiple pages are better for SEO?
Here I outline how 2009 has seen the thankful demise of a few web design trends or myths:
Frames
Thanks mainly to W3C accessibility guidelines, the usage of frames has rapidly declined over the years. In fact usability best practices don’t [...]
Web design trends 2009
5 October 2009 | Posted by Lavelle Hurley | Designer | Experience DesignTags: trends, web design
I have written a previous post on common web design trends last year, as it is important to keep in touch with what is happening in the web design industry – to remain cutting edge in the designs that you produce. So it would be interesting to see what is popular for 2009.
One popular design [...]
HTML 5: Its impact on the future of web design and development
8 July 2009 | Posted by Lavelle Hurley | Designer | Experience DesignTags: HTML 5, w3c, web design, web standards
The fundamental core of web design is due to be shaken up, when HTML 5.0 and Xhtml 2.0 are released. It’s a very interesting time for web designers, especially when two of the fundamental tools used by front-end developers are to be given a major upgrade or reinvention in the upcoming months or years. Not [...]
