At our first World Usability Day Detroit event, Jeff Greer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and Steve Tengler of Altia, Inc. spoke on the topic of collaborating for better systems in healthcare. Thank you to food and prize sponsor Vitamin T for their support of Detroit User Experience and to Grand Circus… Continue reading Recap: World Usability Day Detroit
This past week brought a flurry of comments, posts and criticism in the user experience world as well-known web usability guru Jakob Nielsen suggested creating separate mobile-enhanced sites in his AlertBox post Mobile Site vs. Full Site. Based on usability tests from hundreds of sites, Jakob suggested mobile sites should have: Reduced content Reduced features… Continue reading A Usability Controversy: Mobile vs. Full Site
This week at Refresh Detroit, we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Gosur and Colleen Case for their talk about the web design process. My key takeaways: it’s an ongoing process of five phases which overlap. In design projects: Know your goals Identify deliverables for each phase Clients are your content experts Project debrief informs… Continue reading Web Design Process, More or Less: Refresh Detroit July 2011