Monthly Archives: March 2011

Ebay design slacking

Ebay could stand to give its homepage images a once over before publishing them. The compression in this is pretty bad. The difference between a glossy, professional image and a thrown together artifact filled image can make or break an initial impression. (Artifacts are the little jagged areas you can see around the text in… Read the rest »

Persuasive Design – TED

Is this bad design? Ehh… It is persuasive design. TED ( or the designer) knows that if you want the video to start, you will find the play button. It’s in its logical place, just not highlighted. By making the Share and Rate buttons stand out, they increase the chance they will be clicked, without… Read the rest »