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Showroom Assistant for Women's fashion company (Midtown West …
Woodland Trading, Inc., a women’s sportswear company located in NYC’s Garment District is looking for a new Showroom Assistant. The candidate must have a BA or AA in fashion design, graphic design, or a related field.
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Fashion Design and Production/Marketing Internships (Brooklyn …
We are looking for skilled interns to help our growing company! This is a great opportunity to build your resume and gain a ton of experience. The company functions as an Atelier, for an up and coming couture fashion designer.
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Color Schemes for Publications – Graphic Design Forum
I have been designing media guides for numerous college athletic departments for a number of years now and have run into a problem with one. All of the guides used to be in black and white, which made it easy. You are now allowed to put …
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Graphic designer/ Customer Service (Taunton Area) – Graphic Design …
Busy Copy Center/ Print Shop looking for Graphic design / Customer Service Person. Individual should be neat in apperance, dependable and customer service orientated. Prior Experience a Plus PC Based Must be familar with Adobe …
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AAS Graphic Design | Color Theory: Graphic Design
In Fall of 2009, I was given the opportunity to teach Color Theory in the AAS department. I am now a part time faculty member of the School of Art, Media & Technology. Through a broad spectrum of assignments ranging from simple …
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Graphic Design Is In Vogue In This Current Time | One Way Links …
The internet has been growing exponentially over the last few years and there is no reason to believe that this trend would change anytime soon. Many new sites are launched on the internet each day, and each one aims to be different …
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Project for Illustrator/Graphic Designer – Graphic Design Jobs
Help Old Town School Celebrate 25 Years of Wiggleworms Old Town School of Folk Music is seeking new artwork to represent Wiggleworms, our acclaimed early childhood music program. Looking for something to be used as a logo, …
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john stossel 20/20 – graphic design | Job search online jobs
john stossel does a short report on the three common design mistakes americans make. picked the link up from jessica helfand’s.
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Graphic Designer (MetroWest/Boston) – Graphic Design Jobs
Global professional services firm seeks to engage independent graphic designer in MetroWest/Boston area to enhance existing branding, marketing materials, and create new collateral carrying multiple brands across several formats.
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Graphic Design: A New History | Job search online jobs
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Graphic Design School Blog | Should I go freelance or permanent …
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Poker Card vector – Graphic Design Forum
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What is the best 3d graphic design software? « Graphic Design …
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Choose The Best Graphic Design School To Launch Your Career | RTFZ
No matter how talented an artist is that talent can only carry a person so far. More and more these days, employers are turning to those artists who not only display talent, but who also hold degrees in their chosen field. …
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Spring Intern, New York City Ballet (Upper West Side) – Graphic …
Graphic Design Intern New York City Ballet is seeking a graphic design intern for the Spring semester – we will work with school schedules if applicable. The intern will work creatively within the Company’s brand style guide on various …
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I must be missing some simple InDesign CS4 Question – Graphic …
I must be missing some simple InDesign CS4 Question Adobe Products.
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Art Director (Las Vegas) – Graphic Design Jobs
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Graphic and interaction design (Seattle) – Graphic Design Jobs
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Clothing Graphic Artist – Graphic Design Jobs
Private label looking for creative graphic artist with minimum of one year experience in t-shirt design. We are new Los Angeles clothing brand looking to work with an outside graphic artist for T-shirt designs. Each approved artist will …
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How do you find a graphic design job in atl? « Graphic Design Jobs …
does anyone know anyone interested in a self employeed graphic designer? Image taken on 2007-12-20 14:01:57. Image Source. (Used with permission)
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New Desinger: Check out my design. – Graphic Design Forum
New Desinger: Check out my design. Introduce Yourself.
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Admin/Marketing Assistant with Graphic Design Skills (Hollywood …
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Interior Design (Chicago) – Graphic Design Jobs
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Daily Inspiration #438 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration …
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Art In The Classroom Series: Graphic Design, Typography (DVD)
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The Perfect Office #25 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration …
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Any graduate schools for Graphic Design? « Online Graphic Design …
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The Inside Scoop on Graphic Design | Vistaprint Small Business Blog
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Graphic Design Jobs – 170th Edition « Freelance Graphic Design …
Graphic designer for my website. (Ft.worth) I need a full time graphics designer for my website. Creativity and experience a must. I hate to say it this way,…
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There are some usability principles which change very rarely. The reason for this is because they are deeply ingrained into our human nature. Even if they change, they change very slightly, the fundamentals remain the same.
We will try to cover some most important usability principles in the following article.
1. You are designing with a target in mind
You probably spend most of your time designing websites for clients. All of those clients want to accomplish something with the website you’re building. If they are a company selling a specific product, then the target is for the customers to get to the shopping cart and buy the product.
Your clients may have multiple targets as well. The important thing is to have a ‘core’ (one or more targets) which you’ll later use to build your site upon. That ‘core target’ may be, clicking on the ‘buy now button and buying the product’.
The most obvious examples are opt-in sites, which have 1 objective…you either buy/sign up or do nothing. Just take a look at Double Your Dating…
This can be more subtle, like Intelius does it…you first search for the person and then after you click ‘View more details” then you’re sent to a payment page.
2. Design the site so it answers the 3 most basic questions
- Where am I?
There should be enough space for the website name. The main idea is to help the user orient and gain clarity on where is he now. It’s your job as a designer to help the user answer this question. Also, you can help the visitor answer this question with the navigation by highlighting the page on which he is at the moment.
- What can I do here?
The answer for this question depends on the website target. If the main website objective is for the visitor to buy something, then you need to make it clear that the website is selling products. If the objective is to inform the visitor about the company, then make that clear also by designing a website which gives that impression.
- Why should I do it?
This is primarily not your job. It’s the job of the writer to persuade the user why should he buy the product or why should he should click learn more about the company. It’s your job, however, to make this job as easy as possible for the writer by leaving enough visible space so the user can clearly see the benefits of doing the thing i.e. the website objective. You can find more about your visitors and their motivations by getting some feedback from them.
3. Users scan way more than they read. They don’t want to think
There are many studies which confirm that users scan more than they read. So it’s your job to make the design so it’s easy to scan the entire page in order to get the most important information.
Also, there’s one good lesson I learned from one great book on usability by Steve Krug “Don’t make me think.” He said that you must make things intuitive and user friendly so you’ll minimize the thinking part from the visitor’s side.
Try to put yourself into the visitor’s shoes and ask yourself which part of the design makes you think.
To illustrate, see this website by Steve Krug. Does it make you think?
You see how he named the navigation menu? Instead of ‘about’ he wrote: “Who we are”. He tried to eliminate the thinking process which goes like this: “What does “About” mean? Does it mean they will tell me what the site is about?”
I see a lot of people who own personal websites make this mistake. Here’s an example I got from one random personal blog I found:
4. Who is the ideal prospect/customer?
There’s a great concept in marketing called the “customer avatar.” To make a customer avatar, you need to know many of the prospects, who visit the website, then get the common traits they have and make an imaginative person who owns only those common traits. For the ‘dating for men’ market, that is usually a single man who wants to get a date with a single woman. He tried to approach and meet women before, but without particular success.
Your customer avatar doesn’t have to apply for all of the prospects but for the majority (80%+).
Knowing your average visitor will help look from his point of view and appropriately design a great website.
Let’s try to find the customer avatar for 1stWebDesigner…
According to Quantcast, this is the 1stwebdesigner demographic in the US (I will suppose most of 1stwebdesigner traffic comes from US, so US demographic shouldn’t be very different from the worldwide demographic):
So the customer avatar would be something like:
Erica is a 20 years old Hispanic girl who’s in college and still financially dependent upon her parents. She loves cool designs and pictures. She wants to be a web designer and is still a beginner, but loves creativity and tends to be very creative herself. That’s why styles, effects and designers inspire her a lot.
5. Focus on conventions because users love them
Title above, navigation menu above or on the left and also the color different for clicked links (these are only some of the web design conventions). Web designers love to experiment with new models and that’s the most problematic thing here. Stick to conventions because users are used to them. If you don’t, you’ll make them confused and think. And as I said above, they don’t really like that. The below screen shot from Ciplex.com is a great example.
We all love familiar things, don’t we :)
Eliminate annoying things. Flash intros, anyone? Or wait…STATIC intros:
What are your thoughts on basic usability principles? Don’t forget to share them with us.
