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Showing posts with label Malaysia Web Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia Web Design. Show all posts
Apr 9, 2015
Mar 17, 2015
Sime Darby FC Website Is Recognized To Be The Best In Malaysia, Developed by XiMnet
Yes, the football arena of Malaysia has recognized our digital solution and creative design as the best in the country.
Congratulations to our dedicated team members who have worked very closely with Sime Darby FC in making this possible!Read more about the review at: http://semuanyabola.com/carta-8-laman-web-rasmi-terbaik-liga-super-malaysia/
Mar 13, 2015
We Are Hiring
We are looking for a someone with a creative mind to soar with us. If you are interested, simply Tweet, Instagram or even Message us with the hashtag #HireMe to tell us more about yourself.
Positions available: Web Designer & Webmaster.Prefer the conventional way? Send us your resume at http://goo.gl/KpQgXG
#hireme #recruitment #joinus #designer #web #talent #creative #petalingjaya #malaysia #jobs #ximnet
Jun 24, 2013
Brain on Slow Website
Do you know that your website speed and performance impacts your user's perception on your brand and effectiveness? Here's something we would like to share with you.
All in all, if we may summarize, it is advisable to keep your website optimized for regular internet speed. Do not assume all users have access to 4G broadband. Light and speedy websites keep users happy.
All in all, if we may summarize, it is advisable to keep your website optimized for regular internet speed. Do not assume all users have access to 4G broadband. Light and speedy websites keep users happy.
Jun 5, 2013
Creating A Creative Workplace
Your work environment directly influences your mood and ability to generate creative ideas and feasible solutions. Creative workplaces usually have interesting and visually stimulating things throughout the work space. But it's not just that, here are some ideas how to keep your (and your team members) creativity flowing.
1. Allow Play Time!
Play time, outings and fun activities bring the brain into a relaxed phase that is conducive to creative idea generation. Research has shown that positive moods stimulate creativity. It is important to cultivate a fun and positive working environment that supports the flow of creative juices.
What we play in our office? We've got XBOX Kinect, Taboo and nevertheless UNO!
2. Provide Creative Outlets
Providing freedom for creative expression in the workplace is crucial. For instance, let employees decorate their personal work area the way they like it to be. Develop channels for employees to voice their ideas by using an internal blog-sphere or suggestion box. This will encourage employees to share freely their ideas and thoughts.
3. Keep A Criticism-Free Environment
Criticism or cynical attitudes kills creativity. Responses like – “This is ridiculous” or “This has never been done before!” and other similar comments emanate from closed and rigid minds. Resistance can destroy ideas and stifle creative culture, and should be avoided.
1. Allow Play Time!
Play time, outings and fun activities bring the brain into a relaxed phase that is conducive to creative idea generation. Research has shown that positive moods stimulate creativity. It is important to cultivate a fun and positive working environment that supports the flow of creative juices.
What we play in our office? We've got XBOX Kinect, Taboo and nevertheless UNO!
2. Provide Creative Outlets
Providing freedom for creative expression in the workplace is crucial. For instance, let employees decorate their personal work area the way they like it to be. Develop channels for employees to voice their ideas by using an internal blog-sphere or suggestion box. This will encourage employees to share freely their ideas and thoughts.
Criticism or cynical attitudes kills creativity. Responses like – “This is ridiculous” or “This has never been done before!” and other similar comments emanate from closed and rigid minds. Resistance can destroy ideas and stifle creative culture, and should be avoided.
Mar 24, 2011
Web Design & The Chief Alchemist?
I've been asked many times, in meeting rooms, sales presentations, wedding dinners, old boys gatherings, why do I carry this rather unusual title?
"CHIEF ALCHEMIST"?
"CHIEF ALCHEMIST"?
Why indeed?
There's the long answer and the short answer thing.
So for this post, I will get to the short answer, which might be more relevant within this context.
Whichever ways you see it, the Internet is fertile ground for innovation. When I first got interested in web design circa 1996, I knew that the value of the web was not in any new fangled, multi-million inventions coming out of research labs within the guts of the Silicon Valley. The value of the web will be on how we put existing stuffs together to produce something valuable.
You throw text, images, videos and a bunch of codes together, stir them with imagination and make it do things for people in never before imagined scenarios or those areas that are blatantly under-served and bingo! you've opened NEW DOORS into this brave new, connected world of ours.
Look at GOOGLE.
Look at FACEBOOK.
Or YOUTUBE, for that matter.
Great ideas, YES! But really, it's always been there, those materials. You mine them out, connect them, slice & dice 'em, and whooosh, GOLD!
That's alchemy. Making gold out of ordinary things.
For us at XIMNET, we look at your content, your context with eyes of possibilities. That's our thing, OUR CREED, if you don't choke on that kind of words.
And we've done this for more than a decade. I am proud to say this without any sense of irony, we've got to be one of the top web design company. In Malaysia at least, if not in the region.
And we've seen promising competitors flamed out in the lean years after the 7 fat years, watched some losing their ways, gazing starry eyed, hallucinating under the desert skies, and witnessed some new ones sprouting like tiny mushrooms after last night's rain. (OK, I'll be honest, there's one I like a lot, web warriors, kindred spirits)
But we, we've been tested thoroughly in the crucible of fire. And for that reason alone, we dare to say we know what's its worth, this web thing.
I will whisper to you... it's about results...
Yes, it's all about delivering results my friends. And we've gotten the rituals and chants down pat. And a dash of love to work it too, but that's for another day.
So there, that's my passion, transforming everyday things into gold over the Internet. And if you don't mind, I want to get back to my lab. :-)
Have fun, my friends!
Chief Alchemist.
Mar 22, 2011
Busy, busy, busy...
Hi all,
We've been so busy, we've somewhat neglected our blog for the past weeks.
Here's an insider joke people in the web design and development people should appreciate.
;-)
Till then, carpe diem!
Feb 21, 2011
Creating Depth In Web Design
Have you seen one of those website that makes you want to touch the monitor to feel the texture or a beautiful big image so real you want to jump right into it? No, we're not talking about those fancy 3D flash websites but one that plays with depth so well it creates a whole new dimension right at your flat screen.
Nike Better World used the mixture of fluid movement and layers of images to replicate a faux 3D effect to the website. Everytime you scroll the page, the different layers of graphic moves creating a space between the objects. We especially enjoy looking at the page with the orange running shoes. They looked as though they are in the midst of falling everytime the page is scrolled.
It is not difficult to put some magic touch to your website to give them more depth.
Here are some quick tips we've learned to share:
1. The 1px Wonder
Notice how the white box stands out from the background? Actually a 1px grey line was applied to the box to give it a faux shadow between the white box and the background. This works especially well if you just want a simple touch of depth to your website and easily achievable using CSS.
Same method can be applied to navigational bars, buttons and others to create the effortless faux 3D effect for your designs.
Apple did a great job in using these magical 1px lines on its navigation bar to separate the section of the pages. The darker lines works as shadow whereas the lighter ones creates highlight.
2. Foreground and Background
While choosing an image to use, always choose one that has a strong perspective and focal point. Otherwise, try editing the image to emphasize more on the object at the front and a blurred out background to show depth. For instance, we've edited this image with two cows. The cows are nearer to you hence the color is brighter and clearer where as the background is blur and darker. This helps to make the cows stand out from the background creating a good depth of field.
3. Size Does Matter
An object on its own does not show any depth unless it is being compared to. By playing with the size of an object near and far it creates an instant depth. This method is commonly used in carousel styled photo gallery or operating system UI.
Although depth is not an important element in web design, but why limit yourself? There are so much more methods you can try and explore to give your design more flair.
Here are some of our favourite websites using depth beautifully:
http://www.floridaflourish.com/
http://www.wearecupcup.com/
http://www.joshsender.com/
http://riotindustries.com/
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
http://www.jonabel.com/
http://www.nineflavors.com/
http://www.motocms.com/
http://substrakt.co.uk/
http://carlcartee.com/
Nike Better World used the mixture of fluid movement and layers of images to replicate a faux 3D effect to the website. Everytime you scroll the page, the different layers of graphic moves creating a space between the objects. We especially enjoy looking at the page with the orange running shoes. They looked as though they are in the midst of falling everytime the page is scrolled.It is not difficult to put some magic touch to your website to give them more depth.
Here are some quick tips we've learned to share:
1. The 1px Wonder
Notice how the white box stands out from the background? Actually a 1px grey line was applied to the box to give it a faux shadow between the white box and the background. This works especially well if you just want a simple touch of depth to your website and easily achievable using CSS.
Same method can be applied to navigational bars, buttons and others to create the effortless faux 3D effect for your designs.Apple did a great job in using these magical 1px lines on its navigation bar to separate the section of the pages. The darker lines works as shadow whereas the lighter ones creates highlight.
2. Foreground and Background
While choosing an image to use, always choose one that has a strong perspective and focal point. Otherwise, try editing the image to emphasize more on the object at the front and a blurred out background to show depth. For instance, we've edited this image with two cows. The cows are nearer to you hence the color is brighter and clearer where as the background is blur and darker. This helps to make the cows stand out from the background creating a good depth of field.3. Size Does Matter
An object on its own does not show any depth unless it is being compared to. By playing with the size of an object near and far it creates an instant depth. This method is commonly used in carousel styled photo gallery or operating system UI.Although depth is not an important element in web design, but why limit yourself? There are so much more methods you can try and explore to give your design more flair.
Here are some of our favourite websites using depth beautifully:
http://www.floridaflourish.com/
http://www.wearecupcup.com/
http://www.joshsender.com/
http://riotindustries.com/
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
http://www.jonabel.com/
http://www.nineflavors.com/
http://www.motocms.com/
http://substrakt.co.uk/
http://carlcartee.com/
Feb 17, 2011
A Project Executed With Love :- The Girl Effect
It's seldom I come across a project that I will rave about. And I mean, we are seldom given a brief that will change the world, one person at a time, a village after another.
Here's a little story about something I find extremely compelling. Over the weekend, I started reading an amazing book called THREE CUPS OF TEA.
It kept me awake till wee hours in the morning for the simple reason that Greg Mortenson, a lost mountaineer, stumbled unto an impoverished village called Korphe in the remote highlands of Pakistan and was nursed back to health by the headman.
He made a promise to Haji Ali and it changed his life, and most astoundingly the lives of those many children across Northen Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Greg Mortenson, many years and many schools later started an organization called THE GIRL EFFECT.
As a practitioner in the business of web strategy and communications, I have planned, designed, and maintained more websites than I can count. For more than a decade, that is.
I'll have to say that I was awed by the simplicity and impact of the website of THE GIRL EFFECT. It has all the critical components for a great website.
1. A Compelling Story Told in an Engaging Way!
2. A Clear Call for Action. You Can Make A Difference
3. Viral-ability
I will say it again, wow story told well, great design to support the message, and a clear invitation to participate.
WOW!
5 Stars! Can somebody give me a project like this?!!
A final word. What is most admirable is, I can almost see those passionate people who made this work, with LOVE oozing out of their hearts. All said, the greatness of this website comes from the great attention the team member poured into the planning and execution.
And you can't do that unless you are inspired by true love and devotion.
I should know...
Feb 8, 2011
Digital Marketing and Customer Experience Design
Guys, there's an elephant in the room!
For almost 15 years, which I believe is about the full length of the e-commerce history, the digital marketing or similarly called interactive marketing industry across the globe seems not keen on paying attention to the idea of improving the service experience for customers.
The brick and mortar businesses and their subsequent e-commerce guys are mostly working independent of each others. The customer experience of these companies are broken. The chain of service and the delivery of the brand experience is sub-par.
Why hasn't anyone done much about this? I think the answer is fairly simple.
Most companies, for whatever's their worth are seldom customer-focused. Most companies in Malaysia or across the world, be they listed/berhad companies, SMEs or small enterprises tend to be process focused. In other words, they see their business from inside out, and a customer is often seen as an inconvenience. Now if you add the multiple channels that customers now interact with companies, and multiply the inherent intricacies with turf-ism, the occasional clueless leaders, fear of technology by some older folks, and technology-fetishistic IT guys looking for the latest gadgets and trophy apps to run, the Customer will often be knocked down from his throne.
The result is disgruntled, under-served, uncared and totally under-appreciated customers, who are looking out for better care, better intimacy and better service and buying experience!
So if you ask me where's the holy grail of the Internet?
The answer is an integrated customer experience, off and online. PC, and mobile and whatever other devices, all plugged in together with the focus on the customer's experience of your company.
Set the performance indicators, measure the success rates, listen to the feedback and keep on improving.
Obvious, no?
Well, yes, and all of us at XIMNET will be working to help our customers deliver this OUTSIDE IN experience.
Designing a customer-centric service experience that's unmatched. And that will be one helluva differentiation to take on your competitors.
So, the day will come when you, the people working in the sales & marketing department, the IT folks, the PR heads; when you think about getting help to connect the dots for your company and your customers; if you google for "DESIGNING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE" and drop the usual "WEB DESIGN MALAYSIA", or "MALAYSIA WEB DESIGN", or even "DIGITAL AGENCY", then I think you are on the path of reclaiming winning this war.
GOOD LUCK, design experience warriors!