Cool Website Tuesdays: Infragistics’ Quince

I can never say Infragistics right, but they produce top notch controls for the ASP.NET world. Now they have something else that is way cool: Quince, a great little directory of user interface patterns that is built using SilverLight. J. Ambrose Little, a User Experience guy over there, wrote an extensive blog post about the new tool.

You can navigate through different patterns four different ways (I find user tasks especially useful), search them via keyword, and sort through them by letter. Very, very easy to use.

The best part? If you have a design pattern you want to submit, you can do it through the site, and the Infragistics team will review it and post it. It’s got all the requisite social networking tools with it!

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Career Mondays: Content Strategist in New York, New York

If you are interested, email me at jobs@usabilitycounts.com.

Top interactive agency is seeking a seasoned   Sr Content Strategist/CS Lead for a three month project of the over 5,000 page site. Environment is highly collaborative and friendly, and extremely fast-paced and tactical in this stage.

Requirements

• Competitive site analysis and benchmarking in content breadth, organization and presentation.
• Creating development plans for web content;   recommending content types and organization based on user needs and marketing goals, identifying content gaps
• Presenting content strategy deliverables to clients
• Selecting and evaluating content; maintaining site content inventory.
• Defining research requirements for web strategy.
• Developing content attributes and classification schemes (content models)
• Understanding of relational databases is desirable.
• Content development and editorial calendar planning experience is desirable
• Supervisory/mentoring experience desirable

Experience

• Content Strategy Experience:   5 years
• Interactive marketing experience: 5 years

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The Linked In Edition: What Kills Site Conversion?

This answer is provided by Wahne Tubman, a User Experience Designer out of New York City.

The one that has the most weight in my mind is a poorly designed landing page: a page without one clear objective is a waste and limits conversions.   Each page in the site has to have at least one single clear objective. The objective should be whatever task is necessary to facilitate a sale or an inquiry.

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