In The Fold Manifesto: Why the Page Fold Still Matters, Amy Schade discusses how important it is to put key information above the fold on a website. In the article, Schade writes: “Screen sizes are constantly shifting and designs can respond to these sizes, rather than fit to a constant size. So when clients, designers, developers, […]
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Usability: “I don’t like it…it feels…engineered…”
*SPOILER ALERT* if you watch Silicon Valley and have not seen Season 3 Episode 9 you may want to stop here. I was watching HBO’s Silicon Valley the other day and found this latest episode very intriguing (not to mention hilarious) because it touched on the importance of usability, user testing, and user involvement. In […]
Musing on Unmuting a Phone and Design
I cannot be trusted to unmute a phone. I have a history of hanging up instead of unmuting. I can admit this, because I know I’m not the only one. When it happens, I blame the phone–the visual cues are all wrong. The phones that trick me are the ones with a speaker button that […]