Category Archives: User Experience Design

The UX Process

This diagram shows the stages and deliverables of the User Experience Design process.

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jQuery Part 2: More jQuery Basics

Introduction
Welcome to the second part of my overview of jQuery. This article is part of a 3 part series. If you did not read the first article, you may want to go back and read that first. This article is going to pick up where the [...]

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jQuery Part 1: jQuery Basics

Introduction
Welcome to my first blog post on the topic of jQuery. This is the first part of a three part series. This post will cover most of the basic features of jQuery. The next post will wrap up the basic [...]

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Designing an eCommerce Workflow: Gathering Requirements

It seems today that most people look to out of the box solutions when considering augmenting their sites with eCommerce features. Maybe it is because there are a lot of small businesses who just want to get started with eCommerce and a template site or open source solution is really the best way to go [...]

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Create an Animated Shine Effect with jQuery Part 1

jQuery is an amazing javascript framework that equips you with the tools to create beautiful effects extremely easily. While designing an add to cart notification for an online store I knew I needed to create something that caught the user’s eye to let him/her know that their product had been successfully added to their [...]

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Blog Marketing 101 – Strategies & Tactics

Content is unquestionably the most important part of any blog. Without it, it isn’t a blog. However, it’s best to think of the content like a car engine – without the other parts of the car, it’s not going anywhere. I’m going to outline the other ‘parts’ which will get your blogs moving.
Definitions:
Backlinks: Any link [...]

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On User Experience Design

There are many people who believe that product design is a less important part of the things we build. They almost believe that it can be left as an afterthought. I’m sure most people have heard the phrase, “Lipstick on a chicken,” or as I post this soon after the ‘08 election season, the phrase, [...]

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