Predicting The Unpredictable

By Ste Drayton | February 14, 2011

http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2011/02/predicting-the-unpredictable.htmlBy Neil PerkinEver since I read Taleb’s Black Swan and Fooled By Randomness I’ve had a heightened awareness of the limitations of our attempts to predict the future, and […]

Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing

By Ste Drayton | January 21, 2011

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/07/groundhog-day-or-the-problem-with-ab-testing.html by Jeff Atwood On a recent airplane flight, I happened to catch the movie Groundhog Day. Again. If you aren’t familiar with this classic film, […]

Good Help is Hard to Find

By Ste Drayton | December 7, 2010

by Lyle Mullican One of the most fundamental rules of user experience on the web is that developers arerarely qualified to evaluate it. As developers, we know far […]

Making Geotargeted Content Findable For the Right Searchers

By Ste Drayton | December 7, 2010

By Vanessa Fox A few weeks ago, I organized and moderated several sessions at SMX London. One of those sessions was about international SEO, which in part, […]

GROUPON AND THE VALUE OF COPYWRITING

By Ste Drayton | December 2, 2010

Speak to any seasoned designer long enough and the topic of copywriting comes up. Any designer worth their salt knows the value of great copywriting […]

THE LONG & SHORT OF WRITING FOR THE WEB

By Ste Drayton | December 2, 2010

Recently I was reading a list of copywriting guidelines on how to make web pages attract and keep a reader’s attention. The list contained familiar […]

Digital Communities Can Learn From “Leading Clever People”

By Ste Drayton | November 25, 2010

Posted by Saneel Radia Participant Media Model by Arts Alliance We recently got excited about a 15 year old chart (pictured) we were presented that effectively encapsulated participation inequality. […]

TOP TASKS IDENTIFICATION METHOD EXPLAINED

By Ste Drayton | November 16, 2010

by Gerry McGovern   Whenever you get people to vote on a list of tasks, clear trends will quickly emerge. Over the last eight years […]

User Testing Tools

By Ste Drayton | November 1, 2010

Every time I see Steve Krug’s book “rocket surgery made easy” I feel guilty. I know I should do more usability testing than I do, but somehow it […]

The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing

By Ste Drayton | October 13, 2010

As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last […]