Category: User Experience

• How to create great visuals

  A very interesting article from Getty Images on current trends and the “Four I s” that help you to choose visuals that grab the audience.  

  Dr James Bayley

  08/07/2016

  Marketing, Uncategorized, User Experience, Wordpress

  images, powerpoint, wordpress

• What Microsoft does not want you to know about OneDrive

  If you are DropBox user you will love it. It simply works and you can share files with co-workers and they stay in sync on your laptop. Here is screenshot of the folder structure in Windows Explorer on my laptop. You can see a folder that I have shared with a client. They can update…

  Dr James Bayley

  13/06/2014

  Cloud, User Experience

  dropbox, folder structure, folder sync, laptop, Microsoft, OneDrive, sync, Windows Explorer

• How to enable a discussion group by email

  This year’s pro-bono project is to work with a parents and teachers association and it is throwing up some interesting communication challenges. The range of technical ability in the community is heavily weighted towards the low end and solutions have to be very simple. We have a need for a discussion group. The client suggested that she would like…

  Dr James Bayley

  10/06/2014

  Application design, Requirements Management, User Experience, Wordpress

  discussion group, Email client, listserve, mail reflector, mailserver, Twitter

• More graphic design humour

  I notice that I had not linked to this internet classic. So here goes…

  Dr James Bayley

  10/06/2014

  Humour, User Experience

• Humour: Feedback on God’s creation

  I find graphic design to be a thankless task and always try to be a good client. Here are Timothy McSweeney’s ideas about what client feedback God would get about his creation.

  Dr James Bayley

  06/06/2014

  Humour, Requirements Management, User Experience

  creation, graphic design, graphic designer, humor, humour, ux

• 10 year’s old comment during UX testing

  I was doing some UX testing with my 10 year son. When testing a form I asked him how he would move from field to field. He thought about it carefully and then replied “on a horse”.  

  Dr James Bayley

  12/04/2014

  Humour, User Experience

• Don’t do checklist for web design

  I am doing quite a lot of WordPress design at the moment for Lewisham Under Water Hockey Club and Dulwich College Christmas Fair so I will bear this check list of things not to do in mind. http://mashable.com/2014/01/14/outdated-web-features/#!

  Dr James Bayley

  15/01/2014

  User Experience, Wordpress

  Dulwich College Christmas Fair, Lewisham Under Water Hockey Club

• How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider

  An interesting insight into recruiters’ behaviour What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume via How Recruiters See Your Resume – Business Insider.

  Dr James Bayley

  16/05/2012

  Business models, User Experience

  contracts, freelancing, hr, recuiters

• Presentation tier: Smart Client vs Sencha Ext JS

  For our current project Keyapt we have chosen to use Smartclient for the presentation tier. This is RESTfully coupled to business tier. Others I respect have chosen to use the Sencha tools for the same job. I thought it would be useful to find a comparison and found a good one on stack exchange. Smartclient…

  Dr James Bayley

  27/04/2012

  Frameworks, HTML5, JavaScript, Technologies to build applications, User Experience

  extjs, Java, JavaScript, Sencha Touch

• Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using Firefox | mozilla.org/firefox

  This is a neat trick for Firefox users, Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences via Load Firefox Tabs Faster with Tab Preferences | The Den | Tips on Using Firefox | mozilla.org/firefox.

  Dr James Bayley

  26/04/2012

  User Experience

  firefox