Interface Usability in Flash
“(…) Flash is one of the best design tools to effectively break most of those extreme rules of usability” (Merien Q. Kunst – iBoost Journal)
All posts from
July 2001
A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which is Best and When?
“(…) a majority of sites use 12-point fonts” (Michael Bernard et al. – Usability News Summer 2001 – SURL)
Seth Gordon
“(…) Seth discusses the state of the industry and his take on information architecture metrics.” (ACIA)
Learning About and Keeping Up with Information Architecture
“(…) to learn about what information resources and events members of the field used to learn about and keep up with information architecture” (ACIA)
Blurb Gallery
“(…) how to display the headlines and summaries” (Victor Lombardi – noise between stations)
The difference between information design and information architecture
“Includes comments by Richard Saul Wurman, Karen Schriver, Lou Rosenfeld, and many more” (STC Information Design SIG – Design Matters)
Organic Information Design
“(…) this thesis introduces a visualization process” (Benjamin Fry – Aesthetics & Computation Group MIT Media Lab)
Coming to Terms
“(…) when the map doesn’t match the territory, it’s time to change the map” (George Olsen – InteractionByDesign)
What’s in a name
Commentaries and Responses
The Understanding Business
“(…) information architecture is designing information that people understand and use to make their business more successful” (M. Johnson)
Making Information Visual
“Creating Effective Web Pages” (Redish & Associates, Inc.)
The Effects of Systematic Usability Testing on Web Site Development and Facilitation
“(…) to show measurable effects of usability studies” (Linda M. Davis – School of Information Science & Learning Technology – University of Missouri)
Use Case Maps
“(…) they can help you to describe and understand emergent behaviour of complex and dynamic systems” (Use Case Maps User Group – Carleton University)
The Computer ‘Revolution’ Hasn’t Happened Yet!
“Alan Kay is best known for the idea of personal computing (…)” (EDUCOM’98)
User Modeling Inc.
“a non-profit organization (…) to serve the user modeling research community” (Ingrid Zukerman et al.)
A Comprehension-Based Model of Web Navigation and Its Application to Web Usability Analysis
Peter Polson’s Presentation from the May 9, 2001 MOCHI Meeting
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Ten Year Anniversary Issue (UMUAI – Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Do We Know What the User Knows, and Does It Matter?
The Epistemics of User Modeling (Michael Ramscar et al. – Sixth International Conference on User Modeling)
How do we justify, sell, and measure IA and usability?
Notes from the New York City Information Architecture and Usability Meeting
Jeffrey Zeldman
Take your talent to the Web (Adobe)