The Nature of Information
“Poetry is information fireworks” (Edward M. Housman)
All posts from
September 2001
Wireframe Yourself
“Wireframing is wonderfully straight-forward, amazingly sensible and devoid of wonky-geek requirements.” (GROK dot com – Future Now)
Guidance on Style Guides: Lessons Learned
“(…) the process of creating style guides and implementing processes for ensuring that a product is consistent in a number of dimensions” (Chauncey E. Wilson – Usability Interface / STC Usability SIG)
Influence at Work
The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
Measuring User Experience
“(…) developing site goal definitions before you build the site is a very good thing” (Christopher Schmitt – DigitalWeb magazine)
Top Usability Research Information Sites
“(…) a list of the top usability / ergonomic research sites” (TaskZ)
Paper Prototyping
“(…) a technique that enables technical and non-technical personnel to cooperatively design user interfaces for GUI and Web applications.” (Information & Design)
Faceted Classification
“A facet is a clearly definied, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties or characteristics of a class or specific subject” (Ranganthan: Ahead of his Century)
Advance for Design Summit 4
Scottsdale 2001 Conference Proceedings (AIGA Experience Design)
Edward Tufte on Web Design
Designing Scalable Interfaces
“Scalable interface design ensures that interface development takes account of the need to change over time.” (Tom Farrell – Frontend.com Usability Center)
Rapid Web Development
How to create flexible sites quickly using standards like CSS and XHTML. (James Lewin – The Lewin Group)
The Semantic Web: An Introduction
“(…) a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines” (Sean B. Palmer)
Crafting the Compelling User Experience
Using a Methodical Software Engineering Approach to Model Users and Design (Dick Berry et al. – IBM Ease of Use)
Interview: Elizabeth Boling
“It took me a while to realize that part of the problem is language” (Amy Satran – Journal of Design Science)
Universal Usability & Learning
“Universal usability and design involves understanding how users attempt to accomplish tasks using a variety of technologies in different organizational and social contexts” (Brad Mehlenbacher – NC State University)
Experience Architecture
A Framework for Designing Personalized Customer Interactions (David Rose – Design Management Institute Journal)
Controlled Vocabularies Resource Guide
“(…) examples of thesauri and to classification schemes that may be used for controlling database or WWW site subject content.” (Michael Middleton)
Effective Info Architecture
“There are techniques and people who can help you become a better information architect.” (Andrew Chak – Web Techniques)
NixLog
Visual insights into the brutal terrorist acts against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 (Paul Nixon)