Bringing Design to Software
“(…) how to improve the practice of software design, by applying lessons from other areas of design to the creation of software” (Terry Winograd et al. 1996)
All posts from
August 2001
Advance for Design#4 Summary
“(…) a blow by blow of the Advance Summit #4 along with some of my thoughts and conclusions” (Erin Malone – DesignWritings)
Wayfinding Is Not Signage
Signage plays an important part of wayfinding — but there’s more (John Muhlhausen – Signs of the Times)
Perfecting Your Personas
“A persona is a user archetype you can use to help guide decisions about product features, navigation, interactions, and even visual design.” (Kim Goodwin – Cooper Interaction Design)
The LUCID Framework
“Logical User-Centered Interaction Design is a methodology for designing the interactional components” (Cognetics)
Information Design is a Peaceful Art
“The following illustrations are examples of this art” (Toby Braun)
Modeling Web Applications with UML
“The audience of this paper are developers and designers of web applications” (Jim Conallen)
The OVID Framework
“(…) a formal methodology for designing the user experience based on the analysis of users’ goals and tasks” (IBM Ease-of-Use)
Designing for Usability on a Shoestring
“The best gift that you can give your users is a site that’s easy to use” (Lewis Samuels – webreview)
Impact of Navigational Models on Task Completion in Web-based Information Systems
“This study investigated performance differences between three different web-based navigation models” (Theodore W. Frick et al. – School of Education, Indiana University)
First Rule of Usability?
Don’t Listen to Users (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Apply Usability Methodologies in Intranet Information Architecture in a Real World Context
“(…) user needs analysis is crucial to the user-centred design process” (Mark McLaughlin – Intranet Journal)
Modern Information Retrieval
“These WWW pages are not a digital version of the book” (Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Berthier Ribeiro-Neto eds.)
Guidelines For Improving Content Usability For The Web
“(…) some useful suggestions” (Ganeman Russell)
The Art of Information Architecture
“Information Architecture is the practice of designing the infrastructure of a Web site, specifically the navigation” (Aaron West – iBoost Journal)
Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping
“(…) the problem of terminology provision and interoperability of controlled vocabulary schemes such as thesauri becomes increasingly urgent” (Martin Doerr – Journal of Digital Information)
Web Design Patterns
“(…) surviving in the trenches of Web design” (Martijn van Welie)
The Usability of Usability
An interview with Jared Spool (John Rhodes – Webword)