The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch

I just saw this cool article on the User Interface Engineering website, called The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch. This article calls out the "big relaunch" as being a potential pain point with users, and I have to agree whole heartedly. It doesn't really mention it in the article, but I think incremental role out of new features can also help to make realistic expectations for the results of updates. Its hard to get over hyped about updates to a single navigation menu. It also doesn't say that this is the perfect way to find out what changes are increasing your conversion rate; implementing one change at a time over a period of weeks lets you know which change is having an impact, and how.

 


Web Design for ROI

I've been working on tons of little projects the last couple of weeks, but unfortunately, they have all been generated by Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday and Sandra Neihaus. This book is awesome. Its got me looking at all kinds of sites and thinking, "How can I maximize conversion on this?"

If you do anything remotely like front or user interface design, this book is for you.

 
Jon in Chicago, July 2008

I'm Jon Hartmann and I'm a C# .Net developer by day, a ColdFusion guru by night, and all around Javascript fanatic. Stay right here to read my technical posts as I grapple with mysterious error messages, user interface design questions, and all things baffling and irksome about programming for the web. Learn more about me.

Post a job. Find one. authenticjobs.com

Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact me.