All posts from
October 2001
Information Design using Card Sorting
“The challenge is to organise this information in a way that is useful and meaningful for the users (…)” (James Robertson – Step Two Designs)
Comparative Usability Evaluation
“A comparative usability test (…) carried out by four professional teams.” (DialogDesign Denmark)
Business 2.0 Guide to Web Usability
A list of relevant places, events, and people (Business 2.0)
Effects of Link Arrangement on Search Efficiency
“(…) to discover a better method of presenting a large number of links on the home page” (Jon Dietrich et al. – SHORE)
Sitemaps, Storyboards, and Specifications
A Sketch of Web Site Design Practice (Mark W. Newman and James A. Landay – Group for User Interface Research)
Goal-Oriented Navigation Design
“A navigation system should be structured in a way that allows a user to access support for a specific goal as quickly as possible.” (Kevin Knabe – Knabe Design)
Web Usability Research at Microsoft Corporation
“(…) the development of guidelines and principles for three Web research areas that we have found to be critical: organization of the content, navigation, and engagement.” (Amy Kanerva et al. – Microsoft Corporation)
The TAO of Topic Maps
Finding the way in the age of infoglut (Steve Pepper – Infostream)
Presenting Data and Information
Class Given by Edward Tufte (Terrie Miller – O’Reilly)
Tech Devices Leave Many Befuddled
“Millions of consumers find themselves (…) saddled with glitched PCs, cell phones and digital assistants that they can’t operate.” (Tia O’Brien – The Mercury News)
Applying the Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Sciences to Products
“I place the blame squarely upon BCSS itself.” (Don Norman)