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Responsive Design: hype or solution?


They seem to love it in the US. Many blogs write about the latest trend: Responsive Design. With the arrival of smart phones and tablets, this is a logical solution for those who do not want to invest in various versions of a website for all those different devices. This phenomenon also starts to appear [...]

A guest post on Uxbooth: 7 WordPress plugins for a more User Friendly blog


On the 16th of November I wrote a guest post in which I explained how to improve the usability of any WordPress based blog by installing 7 WP plugins. You can find a small summary of the article in here or you can read the full article on the website of uxbooth.com.

User testing and thirteen ways of selling a book


It is commonly known that user testing (and evalutation) should start throughout the early stages of development of a website. It is cost-effective when these tests are conducted in the right point of development but that doesn’t mean you should stop testing once the website goes online.

How to avoid comment spam?


I’m sure you’ve seen them before, these mindbreaking questions you need to answer or impossible images to decipher just to comment on an article. After 5 tries the horrible thing finally agrees to what you’ve typed down.
As a webmaster you don’t want to spend too much time desciding whether the comment was made by a automated bot or not. As a visitor you don’t want to spend your time by solving a stupid question in order to contribute to a an article. In this article I’ll show you some of the most common solutions to reduce comment spam.

Recommended books

Don't Make Me Think - By Steve Krug
Prioritizing Web Usability - By Jacob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web - by Jessa James Garrett
A Project Guide to UX Design - By Carolyn Chandler
Rocket Surgery Made Easy - By Steve Krug

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