Article Prospect Experience Design Are Clever Navigation Names Worth the Confusion? published on May 12, 2011 You're finally ready to redesign the ball and chain site you've been anchored to for years. You want to feel inspired and take some chances. You don't want to look anything like your competitors and most importantly, you want your site to feel like you. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Are Your Designs Attention-Friendly? by Christopher Butler on May 10, 2011 We partner with so many great, talented agencies that we don't have to say much about design. That's a relief to me, because even though I have plenty of opinions on design, I find it harder to defend them than opinions on other things (and oh yes, I have plenty of those, too) related to what we do. But even though some aspects of design Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Steps for Top Content page review published on April 21, 2011 Recently I've found a useful new approach to TMS site-review calls with clients: rather than looking a certain areas of interest across the site (for instance, let's say, a sitewide meta title review), we evaluate one key page for certain criteria... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design How To Prepare Photoshop Files for Production by Justin Kerr on April 13, 2011 A few years ago I wrote a series of posts entitled "Design Guidelines for Agencies" in which I covered topics such as how to calibrate your equipment for web design and preparing design files. I've updated the fourth installment of that series in a short video which deals with how to prepare Photoshop files for website production. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Prototyping for Designers by Christopher Butler on March 31, 2011 What, exactly, is the role of design in prototyping? Once a prototype is approved, which aspects of it should designers take literally and which are more flexible? In this month's newsletter, I'll answer these questions and many more in an effort to clarify the relationship between website prototyping and visual design... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Interview with Eric Holter on Website Prototyping by Christopher Butler on March 29, 2011 Waaaaay back in 2001, Eric Holter, the founder of Newfangled, discovered a radical new approach to planning websites. Instead relying upon sitemaps and wireframes to communicate the website experience, he figured an interactive version might do the trick. It actually worked so well that he wrote a book about it describing the revolutionary effect it had on Newfangled's process. Because this month's newsletter is all about prototyping, I decided to sit down with Eric and hear the story of how it all got started ten years ago... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Google Books Wins by Consistent User Interface by Christopher Butler on March 17, 2011 No, it's not the prettiest interface in the world, and there are definitely some trade-offs in using a cloud-based eBooks tool, but at this point, I'm willing to say that Google Books is my favorite (besting Kindle and iBooks)... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design I Still Love Design by Justin Kerr on March 11, 2011 During a recent performance review, I was asked to think about my role as Newfangled Read Now About
Article Content Strategy 10 Years | 10 Things by Justin Kerr on February 9, 2011 Once a month at Newfangled, we have a Lunch & Learn session in which a member of the team shares a presentation (amidst pizza and soda) on a topic that interests them and relates to their role at the company. "10 Years | 10 Things," explains some of the things I've learned since working as a web designer. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design 2010: The Year in Review by Christopher Butler on December 20, 2010 Yes, that's a glimpse of us (well, one of us, anyway) working hard at our main office in North Carolina. Looking back on 2010, it was all about good, hard work around here, but we still managed to produce a lot of great content. We hope you had a successful year and are looking forward to 2011 as much as we are. Until then, here are some of our favorite articles, webinars, and blogs from this year... Read Now About
