December 18, 2012
Mashable’s redesign is smashing!
by Mario Garcia, Jr.I always like to wait some time after a site I frequent undergoes a redesign before expressing my opinions. It’s only fair to give it this time before I’m able to really determine how I feel about it. On […]
December 2, 2012
The “clutter” problem on news websites
by Mario Garcia, Jr.The biggest problem I see with news or other high-content websites is clutter. Clutter is never good anywhere, let alone a website that is supposed to be engaging readers and passing along information, especially in this day and age when […]
November 21, 2012
The future of desktop website design for news
by Mario Garcia, Jr.Earlier this week I participated in a webinar with my dad on the topic of Designing for Mobile. In that presentation I offered 5 principles of mobile design. The very first one argued that news organizations should adopt a “Mobile […]
September 9, 2012
5 Observations From User Testing
by Mario GarciaYou know those cops shows where one cop stands behind a two-way mirror while the partner grills a suspect? That’s how I felt recently standing behind a two-way mirror while watching users interact live with a site redesign we’re finishing […]
August 11, 2012
Building a relationship with users
by Mario GarciaWe’ve all done it. Clicked on a headline link that was relevant to us, only to be confronted with a dreaded registration form. The question then becomes how bad do you want access to the content of that link? Is […]
