Virtual Classroom Fall 2001
CDES-298c Information Design (Farmland – Frank Armstrong)
Usable Learning
“The usability of online learning programs can be broken down into two distinct issues: the usability of an e-college site and the learnability of the course content” (Philip C. Duchastel – Castelnet)
Experience Design 1
Ben Shneiderman on Information Visualisation
“(…) we have to understand how to combine visually appealing designs with effective designs” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis.net)
Interview with Steve Krug
“Steve Krug’s latest book from New Riders rallies the cry of all web users faced with a slow-loading, convoluted website.” (Let’s Talk Computers)
What Are XForms?
“(…) forms have truly become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications” (Micah Dubinko – O’Reilly XML.COM)
Google Web Directory
Information Architecture (Google)
The 7th International Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems
“The workshop took place in conjunction with ACM Hypertext 2001, August 15, 2001, in Aarhus, Denmark.” (Sigi Reich)
Usability and Online Branding
“Online branding is fundamentally about the direct experience that the user enjoys.” (Tom Farrell – Frontend.com Usability Center)
Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium
Information: Organized
“As we gradually become overwhelmed by digital content, we need to expand our focus to understand how, and why, information is organized.” (Brian K. Smith – MIT Media Lab i:o)
Usable Medicine Information
“What general principles of information design are applicable to designing medicine information for people?” (David Sless – Communication Research Institute of Australia)
Information Design Research Publications
“This new multi-disciplinary field of study trains communicators who can work at the interface between engineering and the natural sciences, the media, the humanities and design.” – (Rune Petterson – Dept. of Information Design and Product Development – Mälardalen University)
Card Shark And Thespis
“(…) exotic tools for hypertext narrative” (Mark Bernstein)
Exploring Users’ Experiences of the Web
“(…) how users browse the Web and combine browsing with their other activities.” (Barry Brown and Abigail Sellen – FirstMonday 6.9)
Can Navigational Assistance Improve Search Experience?
“(…) adding navigational aids to search tools will enhance Web usability” (Mazlita Mat-Hassan and Mark Levene – FirstMonday 6.9)
The Visual Language in Graphic Design
“(…) little is known about how design knowledge might differ from knowledge in other fields” (Henry Lieberman – MIT Media Lab)
Fly on the Wall
“Get to know what your users want with this low-cost method for collecting valid customer data” (St. Matthew-Daniel & Kamper – IBM Usability)
Designing for Information Foragers
“A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking on the World Wide Web” (James Kalbach – internetworking)
Taxonomies and Topic Maps: Categorization Steps Forward
“How do average users find the information they need amidst a flood of irrelevant matter?” (Bill Trippe –eContent)