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Stock photography is hurting your brand. Stock photography is generally fine on its own. The problem with stock photos is we’ve seen them on a thousand other sites. More importantly, stock photography can’t offer users authenticity – brand authenticity. Turns out, they’re hurting your brand image. According to the Neilsen Norman Group, usability and eye-tracking […]

Splunk’s ginormous fat footer re-imagined for quick scanability.  When fat footers end-up being similar to our junk drawers (ahem, I have some too), the link collection can be so big that it is impossible for your visitors to scan quickly. An overstuffed footer breaks the whole reason for a fat footer in the first place, […]

Color contrast is a common web accessibility issue that is often overlooked. Luckily, SAP quickly fixed the error. People who may have low vision, or maybe colorblind, typically encounter some difficulty distinguishing text from a background color if the contrast is insufficient. There are nearly three times more individuals with low vision than those with […]

Put IBM’s main menu navigation on a diet–stat.  Whenever a website’s main menu has a scroll bar inside, it’s essentially broken. Or, if the main menu fills-up the entire screen, it’s adding a huge cognitive load on the user. But that doesn’t mean the UX/UI design team initially built it that way. Sometimes a collision […]

Quickly accepting the losses of our “old” normal will help move us into the next phase. “Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” said the former Obama adviser Rham Emanuel. He recently reprised that quote which he originally used during the 2008 financial crisis. Speaking on ABC’s This Week, Emanuel pointed out, “It’s an […]

Having worked from home for over 15 years, here are some “the new normal” video conference tips and tricks. It looks like Zoom has become the new Kleenex in the video conferencing platform. They certainly were not the first mover in this space but ended up being the most successful fast follower to win this […]