Being User-Centered When Implementing a UCD Process
“The goal of user-centered design focuses on the actual users of the product, but the users of a process are the members of the product development group itself.” (Whitney Quesenbery)
All posts from
September 2002
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the User Interface
“Users are becoming increasingly aware that they need more efficient ways to find the information they need.” (Whitney Quesenbery)
Flash Design
A guide to usability and design issues for the Flash developer (Anthony T. Dunn)
Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
“The concise text and interactive exercises provide an unparalleled online tutorial and the successful content management makes it beautifully usable.” (Communication Arts Interactive Annual 8)
Search Interfaces
“This investigation is about the ordering and structure of the search fields themselves, not the results, which have been the topic of much discussion already.” (Liz Danzico)
Signs of the Times
“As an information designer, Mijksenaar’s specialty is taming chaos.” (Patricia Leigh Brown – The Age)
XML and the Second-Generation Web
“The combination of hypertext and a global Internet started a revolution. A new ingredient, XML, is poised to finish the job.” (Jon Bosak & Tim Bray – Scientific American)
Demystifying Metadata
“Creating metadata is really just techspeak for cataloging.” (Marty Lucas – Mappa Mundi)
Interaction Design and Agile Methods
“(…) design-intensive approaches have at least paid lip service to the idea that users — to the extent it was feasible to inject them into the design process — could improve the outcome.” (Jon Udell – O’Reilly Network)
Bridging The Gap With Requirements Definition
“One effective method is to conduct a requirements definition phase before developing a new product.” (Ryan Olshavsky – Cooper Newsletter)
Turning Requirements Into Product Definition
“(…) to work from a form and behavior specification that provides a final and coherent description of what the product is and how it should work.” (Jonathan Korman – Cooper Newsletter)
99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
“(…) the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear.” (Jeffrey Zeldman – Digital Web Magazine)
Information Design
“From Ricci Street, an online MBA community at Medaille College, Buffalo, pioneering new media in the 21st century.” (Douglas Anderson – Gizmos, Inc.)
Information Design: A Dynamic and Rapidly Growing Field
“Concerned with issues and techniques in the design and communication of messages, Information Design has been greatly impacted by the rise of electonic media.” (Coventry School of Art and Design, UK)
Web Design That Works For Everyone
October 18-19, 2002 – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.A (Adaptive Environments & Rhode Island School of Design)
Interview: Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville on Information Architecture
“We didn’t intend to write a longer book, but the truth is we’ve learned so much in the past four years, we simply had more to say.” (Web Reference)
Words Drive Action
An Interview with Gerry McGovern (User Interface 7 East Conference)
Progress Indication: Concepts, Design, and Implementation
“(…) progress indication is much more than animations of documents flying between folders.” (Paul McInerney & Jin Li – IBM developerWorks)
Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web
“(…) the set of principles that all agents in the system follow to create the large-scale effect of a shared information space.” (The World Wide Web Consortium)
Design of a Future Wireless Information Device 
“(…) user interface concept for an advanced wireless, mobile device.” (Aaron Marcus)
