(spolier alert!) I’ve had quite a few insights while watching Life of Pi (2012):
Still, why don’t I like the movie?
Microsoft works on annoying people. In advertising, in marketing, in their products. “Bing!”. Let’s be annoying.
Have a look at the first seconds of this video:
What you may notice is the fact that they place the brand name at the very beginning of the video. In my opinion, people are very interested in seeing the video, but at the very end, they don’t pay as much attention.
Sometimes, I see people with criteria around them – “In order to …, you will have to …”. My criteria is this – “In order for me to consider you a top-notch person …, you will have to …”. On the other hand, I try to put no criteria on behavior. So, my thought above is an internal one, not an external one. I try not to request people to do actions, in order for me to treat them right (or how I perceive right). Some people do request certain a behavior to receive a certain behavior (“you have to act like this, in order for me to act like that”). Über-cool thing: even if I do meet the criteria, I tend to despise that thinking. It’s a faulty logic, no matter if I fulfill the criteria or not. My logic goes like this: “I generally don’t ask people to do something, in order for me to do something. But for you, especially, I will apply the same criteria you apply to others. Take it as a gift”.
You may notice that in some languages you can write the same word with special characters or not:
You can write in a language with diacritics: ç, ü, â, ă, or you can write without them: c, u, a, a. What to do?
There are two types of people in this world:
The things is, sometimes people need to do SEO and promotion and link building. Which of the two types of people will do better?
I talked with a friend recently about love matters. I generally don’t tackle this topic, so I didn’t have a procedure ready to apply.
I realized this – you should just keep your mouth shut. Or say things without any meaning. Don’t try to influence in any way. That’s it.
Sometimes, I listen to stupid things. People tell me things which I don’t adhere to. But I get good insights out of them.
Let’s say we want to create a list of keywords for dental clinic web site – a dental clinic which handles dental implants. How to set up the keyword list?
Generally, an audit made by me is private. The ones below are public: EN: Review of SEOcrawl – SEO Software and Professional SEO Tools – DWF. EN: Sample usability analysis: altex.ro checkout process EN: Site review: librariasophia.ro (usability) EN: Site review: 2famo.us (usability) EN: Site review: CityCompass (usability) EN: Site review: marazul.ro (usability) RO: Audit site detaliat: Libmag.ro (UX) RO: Review complex site: Bottega Verde RO: Review complex site: teri.ro RO: Review complex site: sanavita.ro RO: Review complex site: e-oferta.ro RO: Review complex site: poker-pro.ro RO: Review complex site: analiză generală site spat.ro RO: Review complex site: Vreau Mobilă RO: Review complex site: simislink.eu? RO: Review complex site: retetanaturista.ro An old UX audit, which is not big, but huge (RO): Imobiliare.ro (beta): site review, generare de idei şi analiză SEO. A check-up of implementation, for a small review, not a complex one: How was my feed back on a social networking web site for having success as a business professional – succesul.ro implemented? When I look at a usability audit, I look for the main criteria in which a web site can be analyzed – Is the structure of the web site relevant? Is it easy to navigate the website? Is the information presented in a clear way? Are the colors of the website chosen properly? Do the call to action buttons really do call users to act? Are the images relevant to the texts? Is the text legible, both from a design perspective (size of fonts, number of words per line, the contrast between text and background), and from a user’s …