Peel me a Grape :: We make things work

I been continually keeping these links unread in google reader. This post is to share them and some comments – appeasing my empty inbox conscience.

How to succeed as a first time UX manager.

UXmatters post about succeeding with your first job as a UX Manager turns out to be a great article on how to be a good manager or leader.

Smashing Magazine: Sign-up Forms

A two part article titled Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-up Forms (part 2)

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms.

Based on detailed analysis of the signup forms on 100 popular websites, it’s a great check list, and certainly a resource I’ll go back to. It reminds me of Defensive Design for the Web – on steroids!

I highly recommend Smashing Magazine as a source of design inspiration.

ZURB

ZURB made a job posting to jobs.rubynow.com – but they went the extra yard and made it stand out. So instead of the dozens of postings like this:

they caught my eye with:

It makes a good zeroth impression, before I even know what they do. Zurb go on to list 17 reasons to join, from profit sharing to free house cleaning.