Best practice and excellence in Irish eCommerce will be recognised for the first time in the Retail Excellence Ireland Awards and through a new quality mark which has been launched by the retail industry body. The winner of the main award, eCommerce Website of the Year, will receive a digital marketing campaign to the value of €20,000 plus help from the ...
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Three outstanding iPad apps show just how the power and versatility of the platform can be put to use. And there are some insights that are valuable to any business that wants to put an iPad app to work for it. The three apps were the stars of last night's Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Dublin event where their producers were on ...
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They are the websites that make you go "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" - the ones that try to fool or confuse you for their benefit. They use black-hat, anti-usability tricks to try to cod users. Typical tricks are adding unwanted travel insurance, hiding the unsubscribe link,  or spamming everyone in your email contacts to join you in some crummy social network. Now UK user experience ...
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A few days our blog looked at examples of how Irish public sector organisations are putting data online for the public to use as part of these organisations'  internet strategies. But the process is not without its perils, and privacy concerns often come to the fore. A case in point is property prices. While planning applications have always been in the ...
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Universal design informs high-usability, accessible eGovernment service Can you build an eGovernment website in about four months to collect millions of euros from the public? Yes you can, and you can make it highly usable and accessible at the same time... and  bilingual too. That was the message from Claire Gilligan, Assistant Director of the Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB), at ...
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