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This time I am sharing with a practical example of the power of UX and the user-centered-design when re-inventing from the ground up a website that resulted in increase of knowledge about cancer and its prevention. It describes in details the goal for the Norwegian cancer society online, its strategy, what were the primarily questions it should answer and how the campaings should be organized. The results were the impressive make over of the website with + 20% more people contacting the cancer line. The one time donations increase + 70%, donations total +73% and montly donations + 88%. That is the power of UX and the user-centered-design, so before think twice if is worthing investing on UX, think if is worthing knowing well your customers and what they need to know and do on your site before you build extremely fancy sites that don't pay off. Take you time and see Ida Aalen's presentation on the Content Against Cancer.  

Today I am sharing a slideshare presentation of the Norwegian designer Ida Aalen because many of the topics she speaks on her presentation I have already been talking of the last months on other articles of this same blog. Topics such as: 1. User-centered design and that whoever shout the most win and it is often the user. 2. Mobile first and that design for mobile should come first. (See earlier articles on this subject in this same blog). I specially like her analogy when she mention the book Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski " If it's not important enough to put on mobile, is it important to put on the desktop?" 3. Responsive Design and that browser landscape becomes bigger and smaller at the same time with same content on all platforms and the need for adaptative presentation that are future-friendly. From the book on Responsive Design by Ethan Marcotte. I highly recommend Ida's presentation and to make it easy to see I am making it very user-friendly and embe