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• Corporate
portals
Advice
for communications people
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Look them in the eye
Include portraits in statements
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Emotional usability
Definition, quantification, design
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Corporate image management
Concepts and literature overview
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Organisational overviews
Organograms work on web sites?
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Quick ones
Collected
advice boxes
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Going
out with the X?
Sometimes an X is used in logout graphics. When clicking
the X, the user is logged out of the system and typically
returned to the login page (as if you´d want to
log in again straight away...) or some opening page.
But the X is Windowsish for Close Window. So unless the
logout procedure actually closes the window that the user
has been working in, I´d recommend using something
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Right
where you need it?
Most vertical web menus are on the left-hand side
of the screen. Are you right-handed? Are you visiting
a web site right now? Planning to navigate around the
site for a bit and read a few things?
Good. For the next few minutes, pay attention to your
mouse pointer on the screen. On which half of the screen
does it sit for the majority of the time?
Think about it.
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Mobile
ray of light
Designing for mobile devices like handhelds or phones?
Use plenty of contrast.
Todays´ mobile devices have pretty good colour screens,
but they are often used in difficult environments. Sunlight,
for example, will cause subtle differences in colour
to disappear.
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Borrowed
charisma
Hey, try this if you haven´t already tried it:
If, for example, your name is Peter and you work for a
large company, so large that you wear little name tags
at company parties, then quickly swap name tags with somebody
else at the party, preferably some tester or someone from
the canteen kitchen, and experience how at some stage
during the night your CEO will pat you on the back and
say that your work, Sharon, is sure as hell appreciated... |
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Multiplication
sign
In web texts you quite often see the letter x used as
a multiplication sign. With some fonts (like Verdana)
it actually works fairly well (2x2=4), but with other
fonts (like the good old default
font)
it works slightly less well. Look: 2x2=4
isn´t pretty.
But don´t despair, there is a proper multiplication
sign. It has the following ISO code:
×
or ×
Look:
2×2=4 looks better, even in default font: 2×2=4...
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