In today’s UIEtips, Des Traynor talks about good practices to create effective marketing content. Here’s an excerpt from the article Customer seminars should focus on education. A quick tour of the application will ground your customers and make sure everyone is on the same page, but beyond that it’s important to teach them bigger ideas. [...]

If you’ve been under a rock for the last week, you might’ve missed that when Apple released iOS6, they changed their Maps application away from using Google’s maps to using something Apple has created. It’s possible you also missed that the shift to their own map data has not made iOS6 users happy. This isn’t [...]

In any website, there’s a lot of thought that goes into the visual design. But a great visual design is worthless if the site isn’t useful. If the content is confusing, poorly constructed, or even just missing, your users are going to have a horrible experience. Karen McGrane suggests the solution was once much simpler. You’d determine your content, stick it into your design, and never worry about it again. With the web changing as drastically as it has over the past few years, content can no longer be static.

SharePoint is a powerful tool, but the complexity associated with it can leave users overwhelmed. Users trying to manage content and share information through SharePoint often experience frustration. Seeing where UX fits within SharePoint isn’t always clear.

Here’s a recap of the resources and information we shared on Twitter last week. UX Design and Coding How To Write Code Comments Well – ^@aarongustafson What Are the Best UI elements (controls, patterns, etc.) in modern web sites & web apps recently? – Quora by @stephenanderson “Being easy and cool” – The Difference Between [...]

In today’s UIEtips, I share the concept of a content governor and why you should consider this person a user of your site. Here’s an excerpt from the article: One of the most important ideas that content strategy has brought to the design table is the idea of governance. Before we started thinking about content [...]

Here’s a recap of the resources and information we shared on Twitter last week. Accessibility Designing for Everyone: The Role of Accessibility in Service Design ^@IATV Content Strategy Avoid unpleasant surprises in your Stakeholder interviews — a super article from @braintraffic’s @melissarach Video of @karenmcgrane’s keynote on what’s next for contenty strategy. She’s also at [...]

Your content is visible practically everywhere. Content strategists need to structure content to allow for viewing on an array of devices. What does that mean for your content management system? And what do you need to build into your content to make it flexible and adaptable?

In today’s UIEtips, Jeff Carr and Seth Earley discuss eight important things to keep in mind concerning taxonomy, metadata, and IA when using SharePoint. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Only after we have designed and constructed a solid foundation with respect to the organizing principles of our information can we consider how it is [...]

Here’s a recap of the resources and information we shared on Twitter last week. Mobile Half way down this article is a good infographic on how tablet shoppers are changing online sales. Some good stats too. Some great examples of creative design in mobile apps in this article. Defining a useful reference set for cross [...]