Web User Experience Blog

Here is a window into our world. It is what I like to call our organized chaos. We are constantly in the midst of a myriad of projects with a long queue still waiting to be attacked.

In our Web Design Team, we like to create project boards of workflows and mockups of work-in-progress projects. It helps us to visualize at a glance, the full landscape of projects we are working on. Although, we are constantly looking at things online - and which for our purposes is the ultimate litmus test - having the screenshots wallpapered around our offices makes them readily available to reference and discuss. We sometimes even maintain some of the iterations or options for pages so we can view the progress and which can also be super beneficial for comparative purposes.

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Do you work for or own a company that has a current, live Website? We're conducting a usability study with people who work on and/or make decisions related to their site. We're looking for a very broad range of participants, from non-technical business owners and Web professionals to highly technical Web developers.

Usability studies are conducted in our corporate offices in Mountain View. We offer $100 for one hour of your time and feedback.

IMPORTANT: If you're currently unemployed, please answer the questions based on the last or most representative previous job(s) you had.

If you're interested, please click on the link below to answer a brief set of questions:

If you're a business-oriented, NON-technical professional, click here.

If you're a technical Web professional, click here.

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We are very excited to announce the launch of the redesign of the Partners section of the VeriSign.com Website.

The redesign leverages our updated look and feel, richer graphics, and an improved information architecture and taxonomy of the site content. The intent is to provide a much cleaner, usable, and useful site. The content has been more clearly laid out, compartmentalized, and streamlined. We have utilized lots of white space, graphics to break up the textual content, tabsets, and tables. The end goal is to improve the usability and user experience of the site so that anyone interested in becoming a VeriSign partner can easily learn about out partner programs and enroll, and existing partners can access the partner portal.

AFTER:

Visit Partners Website

BEFORE:

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I am happy to tell you that our homepage evolution process continues in an effort to meet the needs of our increasingly sophisticated and varied users. We have been conducting usability tests on the redesign of our homepage. And as always, the tests were incredibly useful for uncovering a lot of helpful and interesting findings to inform and guide our design. The tests were also great for validating our direction on certain elements and smoking out issues.

We were all pretty stoked about the tests and the results and look forward to getting your feedback as well when the page goes live. Thank you to our test participants for their invaluable feedback.

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