Malaysia website design blog
A friend of mine via Twitter shared this finding of a comic strip on The Oatmeal. This is the last part of the strip but should give you a very clear visual of the pangs in website design. Especially, if you’re a website designer. ;) The Oatmeal comics are drawn by Matthew Inman. Whether he’s … Read more
I’ve never been a fan of website templates. Half the time they may look good but experience wise, they can be horrible because they lack user experience. If you’ve not heard of user experience, simple to say it’s about designing a good experience for the user. How do you design an experience? Well, in short … Read more
I was reading Timothy’s blog and he was speaking about a new website DiGi launched. It’s called; Pimp My Broadband, and yes, it does sound similar to MTV’s Pimp My Ride. But don’t be misled, because you’re not pimping your modem or anything. It looks more like DiGi is providing an online space for Malaysia … Read more
I stumbled on this unique idea by an advertising agency; BooneOakley, from the Adverblog. The idea uses the interactive hotspots YouTube now allows you to create within your YouTube video. As I recall, my first time ever seeing this interactive hotspots beind used was in some Street Fighter parody video. When I saw BooneOakley’s version, … Read more
Tanjong Golden Village (TGV) cinemas as long as I can remember was one of the first modern cinema theatres I visited – after Rex and Ruby. And in this millennium, online ticket booking is a must for most ticket oriented business. The power of convenience, time saving and escape from the odours of the masses … Read more
Featured topics in a website or blog are hard to miss. In a website, we either have rotating banners or carousels. In a blog, we’ll normally find carousels most likely powered by plugins – WordPress, woot! The idea is simple enough to interpret and hard to get wrong. But I was proven wrong, when I … Read more
Previously, I wrote about a new online service I found online called; fivesecondtest. To me, it’s a free online user interface design test service. The invaluable benefit of putting your design up for a test is you’ll get user centric feedback. Though this isn’t a full fledged usability test. Anyway, here are a few reasons … Read more
From the Sitepoint newsletter, they featured a new free user interface mockup design test online. The free online service is called; fivesecondtest. It’s a user community generated test to get feedback from millions of online users on your mockup designs. This might not be a full fledged usability test with cameras or mouse gesture tracking, … Read more
Ideas are everywhere! And I found Modal’s website not long ago when doing some research for a client. They were featured in one of the CSS galleries for their new website landing page. Or, I’d say their functional under construction page. Who said under construction pages always needed the “Men at Work” signage or the … Read more
The error 404 page is the webpage you’ll normally see when you can’t find the article or item you were looking for in an author’s website. Here’s a quick example of my error 404 page I tuned up. Now, because the error 404 terminology is commonly understood by tech-savvy users, it’s approach has been made … Read more