usability

How Tinder has changed ecommerce

Through its fun, intuitive and frankly addictive user interface, Tinder’s simple “swipe right for yes, left for no” approach has earned it a place on mobile home-screens around the world – not to mention a valuation of $1.35bn. 

As the popularity (and controversy) of Tinder has grown, many brands have started to copy the brand’s simplistic yes-no interface for their own apps.

This has kicked off a UX and design phenomena rapidly becoming known as ‘Tinderisation’.

Why does Chinese web design look so ‘busy’? Part two

We recently did a brief analysis about why Chinese websites look ‘busy’ to people who are used to Western design.

What was originally intended as a light-hearted post to point out the difference between Chinese and Western sites inspired debate both on our site and off.

How The British Library handles information architecture & ecommerce

In some ways, the notion that an institution like the British Library has to market itself at all is fairly new. 

Indeed, my step father wrote a paper on exactly that topic (marketing is a family affair, you know).

But not only does the British Library have to create ‘customer value’, it has to do so online, casting as wide a net as possible and relying on its website to engage and even convert(!).

With the aid of analysis from its brilliant blog, let’s have a look at the British Library’s improvements to website information architecture.