Web Design & Usability

Alexander Rehm on February 22nd, 2011

The new Visit Suffolk website has been put live yesterday afternoon! The website features some stunning imagery and inspiring text, coupled with good copy-writing. The site was designed by Jack Saunders and built by Tom Boyd on NVG’s modular CMS Pro, and features a wealth of cool features to provide visitors with a fantastic experience [...]

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Alexander Rehm on February 8th, 2011

We have just launched Visit Newbury! The website was designed by myself and built by Severine Perherin and me, and features a lot of new content and is based on New Vision Group‘s new modular CMS Pro and features a host of new options and modules to maintain and update the site, from dynamic tabbers, [...]

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Over the last week or so, the discussion “should we continue to support IE6″ has been gaining more and more momentum. Digg, Mashable, Techcrunch and other websites ran features about why IE6 should be given the boot, websites like facebook and youtube are starting to phase out the browser, hinting users to upgrade their browser. [...]

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Alexander Rehm on March 6th, 2009

With more and more consumers spending time on the web looking for online bargains (let’s be honest, if I see a game for £27.99 online but £34.99 in shops then I wouldn’t be thinking twice either) instead of shops, companies must ask themselves if their website is not only showing the right prices, but is [...]

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Alexander Rehm on March 5th, 2009

Usability is a serious concern for many websites – what does the customer want when he arrives on your website? Does the user know where to go, what to do and how to ask questions or enquire / purchase? Knowing the usability heuristics is already a very good start, but how can you make sure [...]

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Alexander Rehm on February 27th, 2009

I bumped into a former student of mine this evening – pleasant surprise. We had a quick chat about work and life, and he asked me if there was a quick way to explain the Usability Heuristics to someone in his company that would not involve a lot of reference material. “Heuristic evaluation” means identifying [...]

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Alexander Rehm on February 22nd, 2009

Those of you following me on twitter know I tend to spend a bit of time every couple of days in finding new extensions for FireFox (and sometimes Thunderbird) which are making my life as an Information Architect, Web Designer or Project Development Manager easier. These extensions may be some all of us have been [...]

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Alexander Rehm on December 19th, 2008

My day to day work consists of a lot of time spending on the internet, looking at web presences of current clients, prospective clients and their (and our) competition. My tool of the trade being FireFox 3 (especially considering that IE seems to have a little problem). I am using a number of addons which [...]

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