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I’m back and I’m bad. It’s been like weeks and weeks since my last one. All due to large projects mixed with the small bread n butter plus all the usual distractions that come along.

Our current major project is for a large educational institute so it has brought up a host of challenges around all the facets of user experience (UX) design – visual design, information architecture, interaction design and all the smaller interactive components. The design needs to break the conventional mode for the sector (we wanted this one to pop). The UX has to be fun, easy and exceptional. Finally the interactive parts such as a course finder needs to be solid yet flexible, media galleries and landing pages all need to flow with ease as I like to say. The whole site needs to be quick, intuitive and fun.
Anyway we’ve swum through a large pool of research to help us get this far and here are some of the highlights.

UX and interactive

• University course finders suck
• Minimizing Complexity in User Interfaces
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-buttons-examples-and-best-practices/
• Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr
• 3 ways to make your site stand out from the crowd

The techy stuff. Still if you’re in the web design business you should know it.

• @Fontface in depth
• SenCSs › Sensible Standards CSS Framework
• Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
• CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

And when you have to present it all: Make Yourself Presentable

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