May 23

Your Website Makes My Brain Hurt!

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Brittany

Humans are lazy. Yeah. It's true. We're lazy, impatient and have extremely low attention spans. We like it when things ar easy and we hate instructions. This is true with everything from putting together a bookshelf to navigating a website. I just finished reading a book called Don't Make Me Think. It's a book on web usability, and while truthfully, a lot of it seems like common sense, it does a really nice job of laying out what people want they visit a website. As the completely self-explanatory ...Keep Reading

Apr 13

Looks matter. Be superficial.

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Brittany

I know, I know, you've been told all your life that it's about the person INSIDE, not their physical appearance. Well, we're not talking about people, we're talking about websites. People come to your site for the content, but they're more likely stay if it's easy on the eyes. I don't know what the official statistic is, but personally, I can usually tell you within about 5 seconds if I'm going to stay on the site for a while. Before you read even the first word of a website, you see what the website ...Keep Reading

Feb 21

So what do I know about design anyways?!

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Brittany

I’ve got four different categories on this blog right now. Besides the fact that media, design and technology all fit so nicely together, they are three of my biggest passions and interests. But what do I have to about them?