Category: Web Industry Blog

Other websites that I find appealing, or can learn from in some capacity.

Developers Diary

Free Site Scan

My coworker Richard showed me this: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/ Free website

Developers Diary

Simple Framework, Lots of Schema

I like the simple design, and how the slider features smaller images and not the full width images (which are hard to find and slows down page speed). Inspiration for a good use of schema …

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Free Commercial Fonts

I was looking for free commercial fonts and found some of these are very attractive: hackernoon Also, this looks like an easy to use font browsing site: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/sansserif-fonts-collection/

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Footer Inspiration

While shopping I saw this footer and really liked the design: the torn paper look, watermark, and the 3 photo call-outs in a 3 column layout.  

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Design and Speed Inspiration

I don’t really read The Atlantic, but when a friend sent me an article I couldn’t even read the article because I was mesmerized by the beautiful design of this magazine website. Here are some …

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Where to Find Users

Sandy’s list of where to find usability participants: current customers (ask client) employees (ask client) existing website Guerrilla user testing (coffee shop) https://www.respondent.io/ https://www.usertesting.com/, https://info.usertesting.com/free-trial_usertesting_usability-testing_registration.html https://www.prolific.ac/ https://www.userzoom.com/participant-sourcing/ https://www.testingtime.com/en/ https://www.optimalworkshop.com/recruit https://www.hotjar.com/usability-testing

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I almost clicked it – Google Play

OH MY GOD Y’all I almost clicked it… #usability I opened Google play, and the green “Listen Now” button is in the ad. I *almost* clicked it, and now I’m appalled. Should the ad violate …

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Hubzu Made Me Click

For the first time (ever) I visited the Hubzu website and without thinking about it, I habitually clicked the “alerts” notification icon in the upper right corner. Why did I do that? https://www.hubzu.com/ We’ve all …