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Raising the Usability Ante with Card Sorting

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 11:07 Best Practices usability, user testing, user-centered design, user experience, card sorting, information architecture, website design

If your company has a website, you've probably heard the “Usability” buzzword (your site's ease of use) thrown around a lot with the popularity of user-center design – with studies showing its direct correlation to increased ROI.

The objective of any website is to facilitate marketing conversions, whether it's making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter, or lead generation via email/web form (to name a few). In order for your target audience to complete these conversions, it’s...

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Success Story: The SAPAN Institute

Posted by Jon Reid on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 10:25 Drupal case study, success story, Drupal, Drupal 8, drupal theme, theming, web design, user experience, non-profit

SapanArts.org

The Opportunity:

The SAPAN Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, collaboration, advancement and celebration of South Asian performing arts. SAPAN came to Function1 with a need to modernize and streamline their existing WordPress site.
 
Creating the new sapanarts.org provided an excellent opportunity to dig into the details of configuring, theming and coding on this latest and greatest Drupal platform. This build yielded rewarding results on top of...
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Being Unique is All About Being Different

Posted by Elizabeth Makepeace on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 11:38 Operational Intelligence Operational Intelligence, Customizations, user experience, UI Customize, Splunk, Splunk 6

Unique: (adjective) Existing as the only one.

Being unique is something we strive for, to be the only one of “us”. Wouldn’t you like for your Splunk app to be the same? For customers to use your app and see your color, your logo, your complete customization.

 

Here is my app, F1 Demo, as “bare bones” or basic.

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Success Story: A Responsive Solution for the Toronto School of Theology

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 10:33 Drupal case study, success story, Drupal, drupal theme, theming, web design, user experience, higher education

TST.edu
 

"The new website is fantastic. I . . . am still having fun exploring all it has to offer."
- Board Vice-Chair, Toronto School of Theology
 

The Opportunity

The Toronto School of Theology (TST) is the largest ecumenical consortium for theological education in Canada with its seven member schools (...
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Content Strategy is the New Black

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 12:23 Best Practices user experience, content strategy, content marketing, branding, web design

We’ve all heard that Content is King (sounds a little misogynistic if you ask me), so the practice (art, really) of planning, developing and managing your royal highness is the knight in shining armor.

Can You Use it in a Sentence?

So, what exactly is Content Strategy, anyway? If you Google “Content Strategy” you’re sure to find a plethora of definitions and will probably fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, so we’ll do the hard work for you. In an interview with...

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