Category Archives: General

Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page

By Jussi | on 10/08/2010

Flickr have redesigned their photo page and their interactive tour of the new layout and features is exemplary. Read the full post for observations on how Flickr provide a great ramp-up user experience.

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How to name your product, service, or startup

By Jussi | on 09/06/2010

When creating something new it is essential to name it. Whether it’s a product, service, or startup that you’re working on it has to have a name so you can identify it, identify with it and start telling others about it. Read the full post for practical tips on how to get started with naming.

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17 guidelines for better information architecture…from 1991

By Jussi | on 15/03/2010

Kent L. Norman published an interesting book titled “The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface” almost two decades ago. This post lists some the menu design guidelines provided in the book, adapted for information architects to use with today’s websites.

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Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

By Jussi | on 24/12/2009

Thank you readers, clients, partners and friends for a great 2009 – we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!

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Introducing Spiritedd: Share your favourite drives online

By Jussi | on 19/09/2009

We have just launched a new online service Spiritedd – “inspiring drives for spirited drivers.” It allows you to post your favourite drives online and share them with fellow spirited drivers. Read the full post for background and further information.

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Design detail: An easier login form

By Jussi | on 21/07/2009

Jakob Nielsen recently posted an article urging designers to stop masking passwords on web forms. We came up with several additional ways of improving your website login form – read the full post for details.

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Welcome to the Volkside blog

By Jussi | on 07/02/2009

The Volkside blog is opinions, ideas, critique and discussion on interaction design, web applications, and business. We will make you think.

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