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Low-Hanging UX Fruit, How a Well-Designed “Thank You” Inspires Community Uptake

A few weeks ago, I wrote up a case study around the perplexing case of designing user experiences for lead generation pages. I’m going to cover the results of our test shortly, but in the meantime I wanted to share part of the conversion funnel that has forever changed the way I’m going to design for sign-ups. Designers do a lot of work engineering the experience of creating compelling sign-up forms for a variety of reasons (joining communities, requesting more [...]

Designing Huffington Post’s “News Alerts”

Challenge: Designing unique alerts for growing collection of content verticals, encouraging sign-up, and encouraging sign-up across verticals. Share on Facebook

Designing Huffington Post’s Daily Brief Newsletter

The Daily Brief is Huffington Post’s flagship newsletter. I redesigned the Daily Brief, January 2008, and was able to increase interaction with the site’s content and conversion to newsletter sign-up. Share on Facebook

Designing “Early Childcare & Education, Wage Calculator & Stories Tool” – a Momsrising.org Project

Fall 2009, I worked on and launched a new section for Momsrising.org for “Early Care & Education” The site development included 3 unique content types: Wage Calculator (Aggregated results to share with policy-makers) Submit/Search Stories on Early Care & Education (DB) Resources Technology: Drupal Design: Ryan Meyers of 2twentysix.com <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrissiebrodigan/5625462123/” title=”Portfolio, MomsRising.org, Early Learning by ChrissieBrodigan, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5147/5625462123_64382301bd.jpg” width=”240″ height=”500″ alt=”Portfolio, MomsRising.org, Early Learning”></a> Share on Facebook

Portfolio Post: Nitrogen News, a Resource Media Project

Fall 2009, I worked with a fantastic team at Resource Media to build Nitrogen News. The site is a resource for journalists and bloggers covering nitrogen science and management policy. Funding for this project is provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Technology: WordPress Design: JJOMEDIA, Jessica Teal Share on Facebook