Best laid plans. Blueprint for a charity home page
To help the client team moving forward I’ve produced a home page blueprint for the website built during Full Code Press. With web projects requiring information architecture and overall user experience input it’s often as useful to justify the strategy and principles behind recommended approaches as it is to implement them. Rainbow Youth helped us [...]
Full Code Press. 24 hrs to build a great web experience
Next week I’ll be part of an NZ team competing in Sydney against the Aussies to build a website for a charity at CeBIT’09 We’ll have just 24 hours from initial briefing to completion so we’ll cover the full journey from paper through to pixels, against the clock. My role as User Experience guy is [...]
The price of cookies when booking your flight
Air New Zealand’s current advertising cheekily claims their fares have nothing to hide… …have you ever checked flight availability and prices then returned later to make the booking only to find the price has risen? This happened to me using Air New Zealand recently, only when I went to make the booking using a different [...]
Is User Experience ‘The New Black’ in NZ ?
I’m visiting the main cities in NZ to find out ‘who’s doing what?’ in the area of User Experience and User Centred Design …I’ve met couple of dozen people so far… So, what lies below the surface of the words User Experience? And is it more than just a buzzword? Agencies practising User Centred Design [...]