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Add You - Choosing Form Over Function Kills Your Site
Marketing and its little brother advertising are all about storytelling. It doesn't matter if you are talking about a display ad for a magazine or a Web-video for your website or for a Google Video Ad, if it doesn't tell a story then it's not going to do the job.When people asked us what we did, we used to tell them we were a website design firm that specialized in audio and video, today we tel
Here is a list of some of the best excuses to use when calling out of work sick. Be careful, try not to use the same excuse twice in a row or too frequently to avoid suspicion.Stomach Virus / Food Poisoning:The classic excuse, you can’t do any better. Telling your boss something to the effect of “I had some Mexican/bad sushi last night and haven’t been able to avoid the bathroom for more
If you put form before function, you sacrifice your visitor's best interest for your own preferences. By definition, putting form over function means you sacrifice function--you make it harder to perform whatever task is supposed to be performed. You give up ease of use or simplicity in order to make it look nicer. Basically, you wind up with a lot of icing and no cake.
Don't get me wrong--form often accentuates function, just like icing accentuates a cake. Something that is visually pleasing often increases the usability by making it more attractive or by using visual elements to increase understanding. Creative design can oft
If you make a buying mistake – accept your buying mistake, the resulting loss (AND YOUR LESSON), and then move on. However, what if it isn’t a buying mistake? What if it is problem with the listing? To make money on eBay, you need to quickly investigate and then take appropriate action. If it is a problem with the auction listing, that problem needs to be corrected so that a sale will happen.If
If you put form before function, you sacrifice your visitor's best interest for your own preferences. By definition, putting form over function means you sacrifice function--you make it harder to perform whatever task is supposed to be performed. You give up ease of use or simplicity in order to make it look nicer. Basically, you wind up with a lot of icing and no cake.
Don't get me wrong--form often accentuates function, just like icing accentuates a cake. Something that is visually pleasing often increases the usability by making it more attractive or by using visual elements to increase understanding. Creative design can of
When flipping the channels of your TV, you are bound to come across a Public Service Announcement (PSA) endorsed by a celebrity asking children to approach their parents, teachers, or someone they trust when they are at a crossroads. Through these PSAs, children are told that asking for guidance, encouragement, and support is a sign of strength. They don’t have to go through a transition alone—help is
Don't get me wrong--form often accentuates function, just like icing accentuates a cake. Something that is visually pleasing often increases the usability by making it more attractive or by using visual elements to increase understanding. Creative design can of
Here’s a fact for you, 85 to 95% of Websites are found through a search engine. You may have the most incredible Website on the Internet, but it will receive little or no traffic without search engine visibility and ranking. Can you imagine a billboard in the Sahara desert? Who sees it?So, how will searchers find your website? What types of search engines could they use?Search engine
Don't get me wrong--form often accentuates function, just like icing accentuates a cake. Something that is visually pleasing often increases the usability by making it more attractive or by using visual elements to increase understanding. Creative design can of
I think it's fair to say that if you haven't heard of MySpace.com, you may have been asleep in the past couple of years or kidnapped by aliens.According to Alexa.com, MySpace.com is the third most popular website in the world, after Yahoo.com and Google.com. It is a free service to anyone on the planet, so it is of no surprise that there are over 150 million profiles worldwide and counting, re
However, on the web, there are frequently contests between form and function. Designers make choices between whether to make something look nicer or make it simpler and easier to use. For example, these are common ways of sacrificing function:
- Using an uncommon style of links that makes it hard to recognize the links.
- Putting a textured background behind the copy, even though it will make the text harder to read.
- Choosing a font color that doesn't have enough contrast with the background color.
- Using a font face that is diffi
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