http://www.montparnas.com/articles Articles on effective experience design and internet marketing. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:05:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article strives to explain, in non-technical terms, what is user experience design, why it is critical in the modern business landscape, and how businesses can take advantage of what the field has to offer. What Is User Experience Design? User experience design is a specialized field that combines product strategy and ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/user-experience-design-an-executive-summary/ Mark Chu-Carroll, an engineer at Google who's been beta testing the Google Android Phone for six weeks before it officially launched, wrote an excellent review of it on his blog, Good Math, Bad Math. He drew many comparisons and contrast to Apple's iPhone, which serves as his primary mobile device. In ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/comparing-google-android-phone-to-the-iphone/ Today is the big day, and no matter for whom or what you are voting on November 4th, you not only want your vote counted, but you also want it counted correctly. In the spirit of fair elections with a twist of usability geekiness, we at Montparnas compiled a few ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/on-usability-problems-with-voting-machines/ ReadWriteWeb wrote on Thursday that the news feed is the "dominant information paradigm of our time." I don't know that I would go quite that far, but it has spread like wildfire throughout the web despite causing a ruckus when its originator, Facebook, first launched it just two years ago. ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/engaging-users-with-news-feeds/ Social media includes community-based video, photo, audio, and news websites as well as blogs. Although each of these types of websites has unique content and dynamics, they are also alike in many ways. This article explores various ways to get the most out of any social media site. Social media sites ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/20-ways-to-supercharge-any-social-media-website/ From mood lighting, to an exhaustive entertainment system, to reasonable fares and good service, there is a lot that Virgin America is doing right. I recently flew the airline, and was taken aback by the attention to detail and the luxury experience that VA has created. I flew on their ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/virgin-americas-customer-experience/ It is a good thing that Facebook is slowly rolling out their new design; they might have had another huge revolt on their hands if they just threw it on their users. However, despite easing users into the new version, there is still a significant number of users that dislike ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/should-facebook-fully-launch-its-new-user-experience-design/ A while ago, I wrote about the dangers of radical experience redesigns and how to implement them so the fewest number of users will abandon the product during the transition from old to new. The main points articulated in the article were: Make only changes that really will benefit users Let users ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/facebook-effectively-rolls-out-experience-redesign/ Google announced in a nifty way it’s new, soon-to-be-released open source browser, Chrome. Frankly, I am really looking forward to it based on the description they presented. It is clearly both an evolution of Mozilla’s own product, and a complete innovation. Google, staying true to their revolutionary core, threw away ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/googles-to-release-a-new-browser-chrome/ This survey takes a look at the various example and trends of headers and navigation across major websites. (Scroll down to see examples.) In particular we focus on headers coupled with horizontal navigation as that has become the industry standard. Many top sites, like those shown below, have adopted this ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/examples-and-trends-of-headers-and-navigation/