The Second Bernies Awards
“The Bernies award is an encouragement to engineers and scientists to produce hypertexts.” (Mark Bernstein)
All posts from
September 2002
How Can You Boost Your Web Site’s Credibility?
“We have compiled 10 guidelines for building the credibility of a web site. These guidelines are based on three years of research that included over 4,500 people.” (The Stanford Web Credibility Research)
Iconic Communication
“The popularity of the WIMP interface opens up real possibilities for developing new forms of human communication based around images rather than text.” (Intellect Publishers)
User-Centered URL Design
“(…) in our imperfect world, users have come to depend on URLs to communicate key information as they navigate through the Web.” (Jesse James Garrett – Adaptive Path)
Information Interaction
“We cognitive agents, humans and computers, currently interact with and process information in order to adapt meaningfully to the world, both directly and through our representations of the world, the latter built up in the coherent pictures we call common sense and science.” (P. Duchastel – Information Design Atelier)
Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data
“The usefulness of personas in defining and designing interactive products has become more widely accepted in the last few years, but lack of published information has, unfortunately, left room for a lot of misconceptions about how personas are created, and about what information actually comprises a persona.” (Kim Goodwin – User Interface 7 East)
Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
All sample chapters are in Adobe PDF format. (Ben Schneiderman – MIT Press)
Standards for Distributed Information Architecture
“(…) there is currently no standard for allowing web sites to share data with respect to their categorization, organization, and labeling.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)
Understanding Users through Brand Research: An Interview with Mitch McCasland
“User Interface Engineering’s Christine Perfetti recently sat down with Mitch to talk about how account planning techniques can benefit designers.” (C. Perfetti – User Interface Engineering)
A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
“So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority.” (Bruce Tognazzini – AskTog)
From Satisfaction to Delight
“The next evolution of our interactive pursuits ought to be toward emotion, specifically delight.” (Parrish Hanna – Boxes and Arrows)
The New Computing
Information Architecture: Using Card Sorting for Web Classification Design
“Card sorting is an excellent approach to help you choose your classifications. It can help shortcut long, tedious and often fruitless debate.” (Gerry McGovern)
The History of Hypertext
“The history of hypertext begins in July of 1945.” (WWW Beyond The Basics – Shahrooz Feizabadi)
Knowledge Management in Instructional Design
“This article will review what instructional designers do, describe knowledge management, and indicate how knowledge management is influencing instructional design.” (J. Michael Spector and Gerald S. Edmonds – ERIC)
Providing Help in your Application
“Making an application that meets the goals and expectations of its users is a pretty hard task – you really need to know a lot about the potential users.” (Sven Ryen – Interface Mafia)
Date Entry Usability on Hotel Websites
“This report reviews the designs used today for entering dates into hotel booking websites. It proposes a tested, easy-to-use, date-entry layout style and format that can be implemented on any hotel booking website.” (Travel UCD)
Inconspicuous Consumption: Lessons for Web Design from Mall and Retail Design
“(…) the retail environment, which has centuries of experience behind it, might have a few lessons to teach those of us in the emerging discipline of web design.” (Saul Carliner – Boxes and Arrows)
Teaching Information Architecture to the Design Student
“(…) approach teaching IA to the designers in a very abstract way instead of giving specific rules and solutions.” (James Spahr – Boxes and Arrows)
Information Architecture: A Workshop Approach to Classification Design
“To get a quality result, classification design requires a workshop approach.” (Gerry McGovern)