The New R&D: Relevant & Desirable
“Somewhere in the process of evangelizing user-centered design, user experience professionals seem to have forgotten the value of vision-driven design.” (George Olsen – Boxes and Arrows)
What’s Your Idea of a Mental Model?
“As usability and design professionals, we often use the term ìmental modelî loosely.” (Scott McDaniel – Boxes and Arrows)
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology February/March 2003
Design for Small Screens
– “(…) a 20-minute overview of how life is different for web people entering the world of small devices.” (Marc Rettig) – courtesy of hydesign
Homepage Real Estate Allocation
“On average, sample sites evenly distributed valuable screen space between content, navigation, fluff, blank areas, and system overhead. Areas of user interest should occupy more than the current 39%.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Microsoft Usability Research
“Last Updated: November 12, 2001” (Microsoft) – courtesy of craig marion
IA Summit 2003 ‘Making Connections’
Conference Schedule Update (ASIS&T)
Breadcrumb Navigation: An Exploratory Study of Usage
“This textual representation of where and how information is located within the website allows the user to link to major categories of information along a continuum of sequential order.” (Bonnie Lida, Spring Hull & Katie Pilcher – SURL Usability News 5.1) – courtesy of webword
The Future of Information Architecture: Part II
“(…) the results of a survey conducted by the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture in January 2003 in preparation for the Leadership Seminar at the ASIS&T IA Summit.” (Peter Morville – AIfIA)
Designing for Learners, Designing for Users
“I recently conducted some online course usability reviews for a client when I came across a strange but, I suspect, not unusual phenomenon that I have encountered elsewhere in the past.” (Dave Smulders – ACM eLearn Magazine) – courtesy of elearningpost
Usability Views: The Usability A to Z
“2,952 articles about usability, IA, HCI and web design.” (Clive McEnroy) – courtesy of guuui
The Language of Graphics
Lecture of Yuri Engelhardt on Feb. 13, 2003 (Audiovisual Institute – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Visualising Social Interaction
“Social interaction provides us with visual patterns that help us to situate ourselves in our environment. In Internet, however, this doesnít happen so easily. Some visualisations are appearing to remedy the problem.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)
Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical Communication
No Silver Bullet for Web Content
“There is no magical formula, no sleek software, that will take away the pain of badly written, badly organized content.” (Gerry McGovern)
InfoGraphics : Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
“Going to be adding links, as they come, to infographics and interactive graphics reporting on the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster” (Nixlog) – courtesy of kottke
Courtesy Titles – Their Proper Use and Website Design Guidelines
“Do you need a courtesy title? (…) Did you know you could be breaking the law by making them mandatory on your website?” (Silicon Glen) – courtesy of webword
Contentology
“(…) blends disciplines such as information architecture, information design, knowledge management, communications and media theory, usability engineering, Web design, ‘Webitorial’ writing and Internet marketing.”
WhatIsFindability?
“The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which specified users can locate and relocate desired pieces of data or information in information dense environments.” (IAWiki)
Voice Interfaces: Assessing the Potential
“Visual interfaces are inherently superior to auditory interfaces for many tasks. The Star Trek fantasy of speaking to your computer is not the most fruitful path to usable systems.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)