Wednesday February 28, 2007

Good splash pages

Again, similar to my log for Good magazine/content sites , I'm keeping a log of good splash pages: http://www.net-a-porter.com/Content/ss07ads
Monday February 26, 2007

Jokes in my spam

Has anyone else started getting those spam emails with jokes in them? Undoubtedly, this is another attempt to get passed spam filters, but (I can't believe I'm saying this) I actually kind of enjoy it. Here's a funny joke I got today: A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children... "You all ...
Monday February 26, 2007

Digg demographics

If anyone was  curious as to the demographics at digg, user catalysis sums it up nicely for us in this comment: "Dude, this is digg. Half the people here are gay web designers from San Francisco." For some reason, I think that's really funny.    
Sunday February 25, 2007

Good magazine/content sites

Just figured I'd start keeping a log of these... http://nymag.com/fashion/index.html http://www.electronichouse.com/ http://www.brides.com/
Thursday February 15, 2007

Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility

I talk about credibility a lot in my column in Revenue Magazine. It's an essential part of Conversion Design so when I came across the Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility (thanks to the illustrious John Maeda) I was really excited. Here's the simple version: Make it easy to verify the accuracy ...
Thursday February 15, 2007

Design Theories

As some of you may know, I've coined the phrase Conversion Design. This post is here to create a list of different design theories that exist currently. This list is going to start pretty small but I would encourage comments with notes for additional theories. Conversion Design Interaction Design Experience Design Emotional Design Instructional Design Suggest away...  
Monday February 5, 2007

Top 5 Rules of Instant Messenger Etiquette

Listen. I understand that for some people- this is still a fairly new means of communication, but we really need to set some ground rules here. DO NOT send a message saying "yt", which for the uninitiated means "Are you there?" , and then immediately walk away from your computer. If you are asking if someone is there, give them a minute ...