Category: The Library

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Content Strategy

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It’s all here folks! The gist and nitty-gritty details, the people to follow, the books to read, the tools, resources, and examples and all from a UX perspective too.

Ready to get real about your website’s content? In this article, we’ll take a look at Content Strategy; that amalgamation of strategic thinking, digital publishing, information architecture and editorial process. Readers will learn where and when to apply strategy, and how to start asking a lot of important questions.

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Design Mock-Ups Need Dynamic Content: Tools and Plugins – Smashing Magazine

Nothing is perfect on the web, so our mock-ups shouldn’t pretend otherwise. Some helpful tools and plugins for using dynamic content in our deliverables.

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In practice, mock-ups usually represent a perfect experience in a perfect context with perfect data which doesn’t really exist. A good example for it are “optimal” usernames which are perfectly short, fit on a single line on mobile and wrap nicely, or perfect photography that allows for perfectly legible text overlays. It’s not realistic. We need to work with dynamic content in our prototypes, with both average and extremes being represented.

We need to craft future-proof experiences, too. What if your interface design would need to be translated into other languages?

All about Visualizations

From UXPA Magazine – Issue 15.3

How do we make information easier to understand and help people use it effectively? These articles range from showing how images affect the way people react, to best practices in infographics, charts, and graphs. See more at: http://uxpamagazine.org

UX Performance Metrics: How to Measure Change User Experience Magazine

So how do we in government know if we’re really making a difference? Using the power of usability testing, we can redesign content and prove that citizens can read and use it easily, without help. But we can take it a step further.

Source: UX Performance Metrics: How to Measure Change User Experience Magazine

UX Review: How Air New Zealand is adopting UX, competitors better take note! | Om Tandon | LinkedIn

Air NZ is trying to break the traditional mould – revamping its in-flight offline to online customer engagement model.

Source: UX Review: How Air New Zealand is adopting UX, competitors better take note! | Om Tandon | LinkedIn