Category Archives: Financial Services

Progressive enhancement: building a better user (and search) experience

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – 5:15 PM

As web development moves towards richer user experiences leveraging JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, CSS, Flex, etc. site visitors (such as people using older browsers or even search engine robots) can end up with a site that is inaccessible. Worth considering in your design and implementation planning is what your pages will look like when these rich elements are […]

By Scott | Also posted in User Experience | Comments (0)

Learning from restaurant menus

Friday, February 2, 2007 – 10:59 AM

Restaurants have been around a long time and seem to have figured out a few things about information design.
I say this because just this week I’ve been involved in two projects in which restaurants set a good example.
The first was working on a comparison tool for financial products, such as credit cards and bank accounts.
I […]

By Barbara | Also posted in Information Architecture, Intranet, User Experience | Comments (0)

Reworking Product Landing Pages

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 – 2:56 PM

I’ve been working with North Shore Credit Union (NSCU) for a couple of years now, designing the current site and continuously refining the navigation and key pages. As a client, they’re great to work with because they believe in the power of usability testing and they’re fanatic about site analytics. The NSCU site is built […]

By Tracey | Also posted in Analytics, Design, Usability Testing | Comments (0)