Last week I attended The 2010 Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference. Overall it was a well done conference, but I have to say the sessions I attended were exceptional. So much goes on at one of these, how do you choose what to share? For something fun and different, I decided to share [...]
Read more...It’s not to late to Register for: 7 Great Creative Ideas and 3 Duds! Register NOW for 7 Great Creative Ideas and 3 Duds! When: TOMORROW, Thursday, July 29, at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST Cost: FREE Register at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/708880353 Presented by: Craig Torstenbo, Creative Director Sue Pargman, Senior Copywriter Seth La Tour, [...]
Read more...Register HERE for 7 Great Creative Ideas and 3 Duds! 7 Great Creative Ideas and 3 Duds! When: Thursday, July 29, at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST Cost: FREE Register at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/708880353 Presented by: Craig Torstenbo, Creative Director Sue Pargman, Senior Copywriter Seth La Tour, Senior Copywriter Thys Wallwork, Designer and Studio [...]
Read more...Jakob Nielsen has a great new article up on his website – Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign. For those of you who may not know Jakob, he is considered one of the world’s foremost web experts, particularly in the area of usability. I’ll include an extended excerpt from that post here – it’s [...]
Read more...On the first of July, the Orlando Union Rescue Mission (OURM) launched a new website. This website is the result of six months of: strategy, information architecture, design and programming, but more than that it is a major upgrade to OURM’s online presence.
Read more...As Dave Raley and I are getting ready to go to the 2009 NTC, I’m deciding which sessions to attend. One session that is already on my list is about Website Usability. In a blog post with the preview of that session, Holly Ross mentions a study by Jakob Nielson on nonprofit websites, usability and [...]
Read more...The always helpful Agitator strikes again. In the post linked above, Tom talks about two studies. One showed people who touched a product were more likely to buy it and the other that a positive first time experience is strongly correlated to long term brand loyalty.
Read more...Ars Technica is another site I love to read. Just noticed their navigation, and how they are highlighting the new “Security” section. To me this is well done, but I’d be interested to hear what our designers have to say.
Read more...A new article from A List Apart on the creative process. Two things I think that are important. The first is to create a brief brief. The one sentence idea is really good and it forces you to define the problem closely and clearly. The second is the way to structure the brainstorming a bit [...]
Read more...Read about a CSS Doc at Instant Fundas. I see about one or two good applications and 300 or 400 bad ones. Other opinions?
Read more...