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October 2002

Book Review: The Elements of the User Experience

Added on 30 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“There is something gratifying about picking up a book by an author whose concept is so elegantly displayed, with a message so clear, that you want to share it with everyone you know.” (Elisa K. Miller – Digital Web Magazine)

User experience

Information Appliances Herald the New Usability

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“This new and emerging area – appliance design – is focused on the development of devices which resemble home appliances in their narrow range of function and ease of use, but resemble computing devices in that they deal with information-based tasks.” (Peter Thomas – Usability News)

Usability

Grokker: Breaking The Page Barrier

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The application quickly converts data, documents, records, and search results into contextually relevant, graphical knowledge maps.” (Groxis, Inc.)

Information design

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Wodtke argues that good site design is complex, nuanced, and context-specific.” (Ryan Olshavsky – Boxes and Arrows)

Information architecture

Talking with Jesse James Garrett

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem: how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend.” (Erin Malone – Boxes and Arrows)

Interviews

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Added on 29 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological).” (W3C)

PhotoSemantic Information Architecture

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“As an Information Architect with quite a bit of large scale website IA experience, I wanted to include a section on IA for both discussion and resource purposes.” (Miguel Graça)

Information architecture

XUL Defines New User Interface Options

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI. (Nigel McFarlane – DevX)

Technology

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(…) design principles for creating accessible Web sites.” (W3C)

Celebrating Holidays and Special Occasions on Websites

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Even small holiday decorations can increase joy of use and make websites feel more current and more connected to users’ lives and physical environment. The key is to commemorate without detracting from your users’ main reasons for visiting the site.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

Usability

Center for Digital Storytelling

Added on 28 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“(..) a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.” (About CDS)

Hypertext

Making the Visual Verbal

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Many people who do not consider themselves writers are intimidated by the thought of writing.” (John Paul Caponigro – Communication Arts)

Information design

Promoting Visual Thinking

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Works of art have no productive function in our economy. Art is politically dangerous. Contemporary art is too difficult to understand.” (Wendy Richmond – Communication Arts)

Information design

Shneidermann Demands Computing Renaissance

Added on 25 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“His goal is systems that are usable, universal (…) and useful.” (Usability News)

The Myth of User-Centered Information Architecture

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“One of the first things you learn about information architecture is that your Web site needs to be organized the way users think it should be organized. Unfortunately, this never happens. In fact, it should never happen.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)

Information architecture

Client Centered Design

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“Although a Web site development team generally includes a usability expert (…) user centered design is the responsibility of every single member of the team, programmers no less than graphical designers, database wizards no less than usability experts.” (Peter-Paul Koch – Digital Web Magazine)

Metadata and Taxonomies for a More Flexible Information Architecture

Added on 24 October 2002 Peter Bogaards

“The presentation (…) illustrates how an information architecture based on taxonomies and metadata can be used to make a number of basic Web site and Intranet functions more flexible and dynamic.” (Amy J. Warner – Lexonomy)