Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey I posted this past week! Your feedback clearly indicated to me two things: most of you like the focused, concise, simple nature of the quotes, but most of you are also open to a wider range of content.
I am going to start experimenting with posting new types of content. I’m hoping that this will provide you with additional sources of inspiration extending beyond the quotes. For now, I am going to reduce quote postings to twice a week and reserve at least once a week for other types of articles. This schedule may change based on your feedback and overall reception to the new types of posts.
The default RSS feed will include all posts. For those of you who are only interested in the quotes, I created a separate feed that you can subscribe to. As I add different types of content to this site, I’ll provide separate RSS feeds for those as well so you can subscribe to the content that you’re most interested in.
Please send me your feedback as this site evolves! This site exists for the User Experience community, and I want to make it as useful as possible.
I’ve been posting User Experience quotes here on inspireUX for over 2 years now. This site has grown beyond any of my expectations, and I’m incredibly happy with the response it’s received within the UX community. The downside is that after posting 334 quotes to date, it’s become increasingly difficult to find unique and valuable quotes to share with all of you. It’s time for me to consider the future of this site, and whether it should grow in scope to include more than just quotes.
I’d really appreciate your feedback about this by answering a short anonymous survey that should only take 2-3 minutes to fill out. Your responses will help me figure out whether expanding this site’s content would be “useful, usable, and desirable” (sorry – I couldn’t resist!).
inspireUX Survey
Thank you!!
I’m happy to launch some exciting new updates to the site:
* Completely new design including rotating featured quotes and a two-column presentation of most recent quotes. This redesign focused on making the site cleaner in order to better showcase the quotes.
* Quote archive - browse all quotes or view by topic or author. This is to complement the gallery, and to make it easier to browse all quotes at once.
* The submit a quote feature has been moved to the sidebar on all blog pages to (hopefully) make it faster and easier to submit quotes.
There are a few quirks in IE that I’m still working through–primarily on the quote archive page. I’ll also be making other small tweaks to the site over the next week or so.
Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on my site preview last week. I tried to incorporate as much of your feedback as possible.
Let me know if you have any comments about the new design and features!
As you may have noticed, inspireUX’s design has remained the same since it launched almost 2 years ago. As a result of the site’s growing readership and continuous evolution, I’ve been spending the past few months working on redesigning this site. I have posted a few static screenshots of my proposed redesign. I’d love any feedback that you have!
View the inspireUX redesign preview!
Today marks inspireUX’s one year anniversary! Thank you for all of your support over this past year.
I have a simple question for all of you that may help me guide this site in the future:
>> How do you use inspireUX quotes?
Do you follow them through the RSS feed or Twitter? Print them out and post them on your wall? Use them in presentations? Send them to friends or coworkers? Leave a comment, send me an email, or send me a tweet with your thoughts! Bonus points if you send me a photo of how you use the quotes.
Please keep submitting quotes. With your support, I hope I can keep up with my current posting frequency for a long time to come.
I am happy to announce a few welcome updates and additions to inspireUX:
- View quotes by author: You now have the ability to filter quotes by author! Select the author’s name underneath the post title to find more quotes by that author or use the authors drop-down menu on the sidebar to view all available authors.
- Updated gallery: New slideshow mode that allows for manual next/previous navigation and a better automatic play mode.
- View similar quotes: Click on the title of any quote post to view related quotes.
- Mobile friendly: inspireUX is now optimized as a mobile site for mobile phones (excluding the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Opera Mini browsers – those will still display the full site). Access www.inspireux.com from your mobile phone to access the mobile version.
- Email subscription: You can now subscribe to inspireUX via email using this link or via the subscription link at the top of the sidebar.
- Balsamiq Mockups: I have added a link to the great mockups tool Balsamiq Mockups in the sidebar. Balsamiq has been very supportive of inspireUX and I’m very happy to show my support for their product in return. Access inspireUX from Mockups using the “Help” menu for whenever you need inspiration!
I’d like to also take the opportunity to ask for your help in submitting quotes to inspireUX. In order to keep up my current posting frequency of three times a week, I will need your help in finding inspirational user experience quotes. If you submit a quote and ask to be credited, I will post your name and website following the quote. In addition to helping me out, it’s a great way to get your name out there!
Thank you all for your continued support of inspireUX!
Catriona Cornett
