Tag Archives: usability

When Do They Sleep? A small suggestion

By Chris Gagne | Published: July 27, 2012

I first learned about “When Do They Sleep,” a project from Amit Agarwal (http://labnol.org, @labnol) at MozCon 2012. The suggestion was to identify when your target blogger slept so that you could tweet to them at a time they were most likely to be awake. I like the tool and it seems relatively accurate, at least [...]

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Yapp.us has a beautiful layout and form design

By Chris Gagne | Published: July 10, 2012

I first ran across “Mad Libs” style form designs about two years ago when I read Luke Wrobleski’s blog post “Mad Libs” Style Form Increased Conversion by 25-40%. Here’s the image they used to illustrate the differences (taken from Luke’s post who in turn obtained it from Ron Kurti): I’ve used this form design on [...]

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Best Practices and Techniques for Increasing Page Views

By Chris Gagne | Published: July 16, 2010

I’ve been exploring a variety of ways to increase page views and sharing activity on websites. Here are a few techniques that I’ve seen lately that I found interesting… what have you seen? A few seconds after a user watches a video on IGN, the page refreshes and brings the user to the next video. [...]

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