I found a great article (and explanation) on quick and cheap usability testing. This was particularly useful for a website I am evaluating for a client.

Personally, I tend to gel with these relaxed approaches more than formal lab settings. Maybe its just me but I really don’t think people use the web like this (i.e., a focused lab setting) . In my opinion, modern browsing is often performed on the bus / train etc (via mobile), cafe’s / bar or in the lounge whilst watching TV – or something similar. The obvious benefit to these kind of techniques is they are cheap and quick to perform.

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I’m a sucker for electronic drone / ambient music so I thought I’d post this little beauty that I have been listening to today. I listen to a lot of this kind of thing & often drone can sound flat, boring & way too cold. This is cold but also warm. It glistens and sparkles as it oozes into your eardrums with elegance and control – give it a spin!

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BX = UX + CX

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I was reading some interesting articles today on LinkedIn. Is their a difference between “user” and “customer”? Is “customer” experience outside of the scope of “user” experience?

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Critical Reflection

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The Shackadelic site has been a great project to work on & I feel I’ve learnt so much – particularly from a responsive perspective. I’d definately work from a “mobile first” approach next time though. I think it is easy to get everything looking great for desktop, but not so easy for mobile – some things just wouldn’t work. The mobile-first approach will help focus and prioritise. There simply is not room in mobile for unnessary elements. This is stated in Ben Frain’s excellent book, “Implementing Responsive Design” (pg 160).

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Theme Tweaks

Tweaks PicA quick recap here of all the site-wide tweaks performed on this WordPress site :

1. Post headers & graphics were created in Adobe Photoshop.

2. All photography shot on my Nikon d7000 & edited in Adobe Photoshop.

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New Theme

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Maybe I was tired of looking at it, or maybe I couldn’t quite get it to feel right – i’m not sure. Either way, I’ve now changed the theme for this blog to “Workality” by Northeme. It is a great theme, is easy to tweak the css, and has a lot of options available as I grow into it. I feel more at home with this theme.

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CSS Print Styles

So, part of the assessment for the IDM 18 Web Development module is to create 2 stylesheets that are “switchable” in Firefox. As I was actually doing a site for a client, I thought that I would just do an additional print style sheet.

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