PC Users PC users can take a screenshot of anything displayed on their screen by pressing the "Print Screen" button on their keyboard, opening an image editing program (such as Photoshop or MS Paint...
In my experience with strategizing and managing online communities, the goal of getting users to register proves much easier to obtain than getting people to come back to the site and participate. I...
If you are a techie, you pretty much know that Mozilla Firefox has pwnd Microsoft Internet Explorer for quite awhile despite the fact that IE has a greater user market share (70+% vs. 18%). Although...
I often send documents to co-workers or clients in Microsoft Word format so that they may edit them. The pesky red underlines for supposed mis-spelled words and grammatical errors has bugged me for...
Recently, one of our clients asked us to design a website layout specifically for the iPhone. LevelTen has created one iPhone specific web application in our past, but we have little experience with...
In the past couple of weeks I have been reading an O'Reilly book called Designing Interfaces, by Jenifer Tidwell. She makes some good points about what users want in an interface, and I'd like to...
The most interesting and entertaining lecture I went to at SXSW Interactive was titled, "Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs" The lecturer, Jared Spool, started out talking...
At LevelTen Design, one of the things we focus on when developing websites is usability. Usability on websites encompasses everything from creating usable navigation to making sure the website is...
At LevelTen, Project Coordinators wear a multitude of hats. The role is never exclusively defined because it bleeds into several areas. Because it is a mixture of so many aspects of the web business...
Being in charge of the LevelTen In-site Newsletter, I have been frustrated with the lack of consistency of the rendering of our newsletter in different email clients. Outlook 2007 strips away any CSS...
Here at LevelTen Design, we have a monthly newsletter that we send out, but we have had trouble with it going to spam folders. Even though the LevelTen In-Site Newsletter passed all the spam filter...
One of the many results of Jacob Nielsen's recent eyetracking research , emphasizes previous research showing banner blindness on websites. The concept of banner blindness summarizes that website...
I recently reserved a motel room on Super 8's website . Upon landing on the confirmation page, a Live Chat box popped up telling me I could save $20 on my purchase and to say "Hi" if I wanted the...
The multi-touch frenzy started with 600,000 YouTube visitors watching Jeff Y Han's multi-touch demo he gave at the TED conference in February 2006. The technology stemmed from a project at NYU...
I have been enlightened. On my semi-daily run-through of the Lifehacker blog, I came across the perfect fix to my frustration of virtual folders (constantly scrolling and clicking). The FREE software...