Content Strategy for Website Redesigns: A Case Study on Peacecorps.gov

There is very little practical information available about content strategy in general, and even less about content strategy for a website redesign. So when content strategist Kristina Bjoran began working on a redesign for the Peace Corps, her team created its own process.
Impact of plural vs singular names

I’ve just bought a domain for my mobile app/website project, and an interesting question popped to my mind.
I don’t know what would be the impact of this decision in terms of user experience, user trust, brand trust etc’.
Th…
Good patterns for placeholders when not logged in?

EDIT: Added some illustrations.
Our app has a side panel to show key account information, e.g. outstanding balance, summary of pending orders, etc.
This works fine when the user is logged in. However: we’re trying to fig…
Confirm password registration prompt in mobile application

Is it a good practice to prompt user to fill field ‘Confirm password’ on registration screen in mobile application?
Could you tell pros/cons?
Thanks!
Displaying view-options in a logical way

I have a search result screen on which I’m having trouble placing the available view options:
1. View results in list or on map.
2. Apply one of 3 filters.
Currently I’m considering the solution below as two rows of tabs, bu…
When to use all upper case?

From my understanding:
It had been thought all uppercase (e.g. THIS IS SCREAMING) was hard to read because of the way the eye works.
It is now understood that all uppercase is hard to read just because people aren’t used to…
Is lines icons are really user friendly for visually impaired persons?

Now it’s a trend we have seen many websites and mobile apps are upgrading to Line Icons. We can see many visually impaired persons find hard to recognize these icons. Please refer the below screenshot from iOS.
How to make people understand that a flat button is to be tapped/clicked

Have this tiles in the mobile version of a website I am designing.
In the web version, the mouse hover would reveal a brief description, but how do I make the tile look clickable/tap-able to a user.
Does the shadow effect…
What percentage of people are literal thinkers?

I have been told that only a small percentage of the population think literally but I can find no studies or statistics.
This question is not about Lateral thinking (Edward de Bono- solving problems through an indirect and c…
Dual navigation solution

Anyone has any suggestions to avoid double dropdown for navigation for a mobile app ( i.e. dropdown 1: main menu nav, dropdown 2: secondary nav within a particular page content. ) Just trying to think of any unique ways to na…