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February 2003

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work

Added on 26 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The book is a how-to guide. It describes methods and techniques for designing websites with the assumption that the principles of usability are pervasive.” (Eric Lease Morgan) – courtesy of cognitive architects

Usability

Broadband Meets Broadcast at AIGA Group

Added on 25 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The London AIGA Experience Design forum recently hosted Jennifer Whitney of the Boston-based television producer WGBH to hear about their interaction design challenges.” (Michael Andrews – Usability News)

Interaction design

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

Added on 25 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

Chapter 2: Flow in Web Design (Web Reference) – courtesy of webword

Information design

Beyond Cardsorting: Free-Listing Methods to Explore User Categorizations

Added on 25 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Free-listing is a technique that can help you determine the scope of the domain while providing some insight into how the domain is structured.” (Rashmi Sinha – Boxes and Arrows)

Information architecture

Learning Objects Metadata: Implementations and Open Issues

Added on 25 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“(…) to facilitate to the development of large-scale distributed learning frameworks and new models of learning resources design and delivery, but have a limited implementation experience behind them.” (Kateryna Synytsya – IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter 5.1) – courtesy of elearning

Metadata

The Future of Help? Nine Trends in Online User Assistance

Added on 24 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Whilst applications are becoming more complex, many people believe that online user assistance hasnít changed much since WinHelp was introduced with Windows 3. This is a misconception.” (William Birn and Ellis Pratt – Cherryleaf) – courtesy of ellis pratt

Technical communication

Interaction Design Is Like A Good Party

Added on 24 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Nathan Shedroff is an interaction design consultant, based in California. He is also an author of several books and an Explorer of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.” (Holly Coleman & Mark Vanderbeeken – Interaction Design Institute Ivrea)

Interviews

Collaboration and Information Design

Added on 24 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“While the basics are very simple – create information that achieves maximum effectiveness by balancing the correct content with the best aesthetics – successfully accomplishing it is something else entirely.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

Information design

Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines

Added on 24 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Guidelines conflict on whether to limit intranet search to a single search box or dedicate an additional box to employee directory searches. There’s theory to support both guidelines. What’s up?.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

Usability

Starting a Career in User Experience

Added on 23 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“With dedication, some talent, a few classes, and a healthy dose of self-promotion, the transition was fairly easy, very enjoyable, and took about two years.” (Marcus Haid – Adaptive Path)

User experience

A User-Centered Approach to Selling Information Architecture

Added on 21 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The most common approach to selling IA involves introducing the basic concepts, along with explanations and examples of what deliverables are produced, and some discussion of the benefits.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)

Information architecture

The London Underground Map: Imagining Modern Time and Space

Added on 21 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The London Underground map (…) appeared in 1933 originally designed in 1931 by Harry Beck.” (Janin Hadlaw – Design Issues 19.1) – courtesy of karel van der waarde

Information design

On the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy

Added on 20 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Hypertext as mediated by the Web browser has not proved to embody the qualities of the ideal post-structural text longed for by literary theorists such as George Landow; neither has the World Wide Web fulfilled the document-association function of the memex, the hypothetical research tool Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 essay, As We May Think.” (dichtung-digital – Dennis G. Jerz) – courtesu of webword

Hypertext

Conversation with Marc Andreessen

Added on 20 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“(…) the Netscape co-founder and current chairman of IT outsourcing-provider Opsware chats about where Internet navigation is headed, why he stopped using IE, and what he would do differently if he re-created the browser.” (Joanna Glasner – Wired) – courtesy of nooface

Interviews

Designing Information Architecture

Added on 20 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

The Flamenco Project, Methods for Information Architecture, and Human Cognition and Information Architecture (Rashi Sinha)

Information architecture

AIfIA to Operate IA Slash

Added on 19 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Michael Angeles, creator of the information architecture community news site IA Slash, is donating the site to the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture.” (AIfIA)

Special

Information Markup Language Specification

Added on 19 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“The goal of IML is to enable handheld computers, (that have limitations in the display size and input capabilities), to access and render content from the Internet.” (Simputer Project) – courtesy of dmitri ragano

Technology

Malacca: Revolutionary Interface for Handhelds

Added on 19 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“Malacca is the world’s most advanced interface for handhelds, and is based on IML, the Simputer’s XML-based lingua franca.” (PicoPeta Simputers) – courtesy of dmitri ragano

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis

Added on 19 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“This article originally appeared in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science v23, 1-30 (April-July 1998).” (Dr. Louise Spiteri – AIfIA)

Metadata

Designed for Life: Q&A with Donald Norman

Added on 19 February 2003 Peter Bogaards

“(…) the guru’s guru of a world in which people really care whether everyday gadgets work intuitive.” (Wendy M. Grossman – The New Scientist) – courtesy of lawrence lee

Interviews