User Interface Design
“(…) good design always involves a process of compromise.” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign)
Evolution, Alienation and Gossip
The role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century (Kate Fox – Social Issues Research Centre)
The Typography of News
“The online newspaper, despite the seemingly limitless possibilities of type on the Internet, slavishly apes the appearance of its printed sibling.” (Peter Hall – Font Magazine)
ChartsMapsDiagrams
An Information Graphics Portfolio (Rose Zgodzinski)
Interactional Digital Libraries
Introduction to a special issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries (Anita Coleman and Maliaca Oxnam – Journal of Digital Information 2.4)
Designing the User Interface for the Físchlár Digital Video Library
“(…) we derive a design space to compare existing browser interfaces and to specify new interface ideas in a more systematic way.” (Hyowon Lee and Alan F. Smeaton – Journal of Digital Information 2.4)
Challenging the Status Quo: Audi Redesigned
“This case study focuses on three aspects of particular interest: the approach to schematics (i.e., wireframes), an automated page layout technique referred to as ‘jumping boxes’, and a user test that compared the performance of a left-hand navigation to a right-hand navigation.” (James Kalbach – Boxes and Arrows)
Usability Cult Sacrifices Innovation
“No users (…) were researched when Sony chief Akio Morita invented the Walkman.” (James Woudhuysen – ITWeek)
Usability Implications for 1-to-1 Marketing
“In order for companies to maximize the value they receive from their Internet marketing campaigns, it is critical for human factors practitioners to participate.” (Marc Resnick – Internetworking)
Usability and Privacy: A Study of Kazaa P2P File-Sharing
“Users who accidentally or unknowingly allow their private or personal files to be shared risk disclosing their private information to other users on the network.” (Nathaniel Good – Information Dynamics Lab HP Laboratories)
Start Now: Develop with Users
“(…) a starting point for including your users in all phases of site development, including strategy and design.” (Jared Braiterman – Macromedia Designer & Developer Center)
Aqua Human Interface Guidelines
“This document describes what you need to do to design your application for Aqua, the Mac OS X user interface.” (Apple Developer Connection)
Action, Interaction, Reaction
“Many of the concepts now discussed as interaction design have been around for years, but they tended to be embraced by disciplines such as ergonomics, psychology and human factors, which had other fish to fry.” (Nico Macdonald – Spy)
Publications by Nigel Bevan
“All these documents are downloadable. To read these documents you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.” (Serco Usability Services)
Usability Engineering
Live Help Systems: An Approach to Intelligent Help for Web Information Systems
“(…) more and more Web site users are having problems accomplishing their tasks, and it is increasingly important to provide them with support.” (Johan Aberg PhD Thesis)
Usability Toolkit
“(…) a collection of forms, checklists and other useful documents for conducting usability tests and user interviews.” (STC Usability SIG)
Fear of Design
“(…) IA is surely design as much as Interaction Design is design, Architecture is design, and Engineering is design.” (Christina Wodtke – Boxes and Arrows)
Building Brand into Structure
“If you followed usability gurus like Jakob Nielsen blindly, brand would have little to no place in information and interaction design.” (Dan Saffer – Boxes and Arrows)
What I Learned as a Writer from Doing Usability and Interface Testing
“Involvement with our users provided a great deal of expected and unexpected feedback to the group, and helped us tremendously to learn more about our users, and ourselves as writers and information designers.” (Anne F. Jackson – Usability Interface April 2002)