This has been a terribly difficult week for us here in Blacksburg, as you are certainly aware following the shootings at Virginia Tech. My wife and I started New City Media in this wonderful little college town in 1995. For all those years most of the troubles of the world have been “out there,” while […]
April 20, 2007 – 10:26 am
New City Media has been selected to redesign the web site for Kiawah Island Real Estate. Kiawah Island is a luxury resort and residential community just 20 minutes outside of Charleston, SC. The island is home to six world-class golf courses (their Ocean Course is considered the most challenging golf course in the U.S.) […]
April 16, 2007 – 11:39 am
Ten students cross the quad laughing to each other, led by Professor Martin. He takes the front steps of the dorm two at a time and holds the door for his students. “This could be embarrassing,” whispers Kayla.
The group gathers at the door to room 312. Two knocks and a snicker. The door swings open […]
February 27, 2007 – 4:56 pm
Jim, Jeannine and I just returned from a week in London working with Imperial College on the architecture of their site. We got along famously with their internal team, and the result was great progress on the site map and wireframes of the key pages.
December 20, 2006 – 11:34 am
We’re delighted to announce that we have been chosen to lead a major redesign of the Imperial College London web site. Imperial College is one of the top ten institutions in the world, and is frequently recognized for its leadership in technology, biomedicine and science.
What’s wrong with this statement?
“We need to make sure the look and feel of the site works with our branding.”
At first this seems reasonable – obviously your web site should use colors, fonts, logos and language that are consistent with your brand identity as it appears in other media. But this statement misses the bigger […]
Information technology projects at U.S. companies fail at an alarming rate. Depending on the measurement you use, failure rates run between 35 percent and 70 percent. Web sites are a portion of this. They may fail even if they are successfully launched, because they do not achieve their objectives.
But why do so many projects fail?
In this post I’ll take a look at what’s being done to make the web easier for visually impaired people to use, and share some insights gained during a visit to the founders of Usability.gov, who have been leading the way in user testing research for accessibility.
People with visual impairments navigate the web much […]