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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

P1S Lecture - Improving Designs

Improving design
-meetings
why our compeditors are successful
analyzing compeditors website design
what is consistent
http://www.glenncookmd.com/
-Less content, more effective text on the home pages
-Contact forms higer up on the page
-More, "better" graphics
-Badges
http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/Badges/Part2.aspx
-Better buttons:
buttons that look and feel like buttons, adds interactivity
modern looking buttons

http://www.photoshoplab.com/web20-design-kit.html
http://hongkiat.com/blog/photoshop-create-web-20-button/
http://iris-design.info/photoshop/web-20-style-buttons/
http://www.ajaxlessons.com/2006/02/16/web-20-badge-tutorial/

-Unique layouts and style:
http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/3Buckets/
http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/ornate/Part4.aspx
http://www.brigadoonlodge.com/
http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/Shiny/Part5.aspx
http://www.thebirthdaysite.co.uk/
http://148.244.191.234/

Article:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/humantohuman

Understand target audience:
ask more questions about them in design call.

- Dan Olsavsky

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