Constructing User-Centered Websites
Design Implications for Content Organization (Usability News Summer 2000)
Jakob Nielsen’s Spotlight
“List of links and sites that have been spotlighted with commentary” (Useit.com)
Principia Cybernetica Web
“(…) to develop a complete philosophy or “world-view”, based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies.” (Editorial Board: Turchin, Joslyn, Heylighen, Bollen)
Information Society and Cyberculture
From one of the world’s first university based digital points-of-publication (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at the College of Arts and Sciences – Virginia Tech)
Inhabiting Information
The Architecture of Cognitive Amplification (Barbara Pfenningstorff – MSc Virtual Environments – The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment)
The HTML Hell Page
“Some curmudgeonly comments on bad Web design” (Eric S. Raymond)
Information Design Discipline
“According to RSW, the crucial emerging profession of the twenty-first century is that of information architect” (Art and Culture)
Certificate in Information Design
“An interdisciplinary program that draws on the principles of information design” (Faculty of Information Studies – University of Toronto)
Experiences
A Pattern Language for User Interface Design (Todd Coram and Jim Lee)
Thesauri Online
“There are many thesauri available through the Internet” (American Society of Indexers)
Information Design on the Web: XML
“XML is very powerful (…)” (School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University)
Criteria for Optimal Web Design
“… questions to address some of the more important human factors concerns in the design and building of usable websites.” (Michael L. Bernard in SURL)
Information Visualization
“Information visualization is an emerging scientific and technical area.” (AT&T Labs-Research)
Information Design: Online Informatics
“Designing a Worldwide Information Structure” (Kjell-Erik B. Eilertsen & Ole Øyvind Stensli – Information Design Class)
Information Architect makes the Web work
“Information Architect: a job that is becoming increasingly more important as the world moves to the Web” (Mercury Center)
Color Scheme
“(…) how our brain draws colour pictures” (Beyond 2000)
Don Norman on Edward Tufte
“Tufte lacks an understanding of people and (…) is often wrong about what constitutes good communication.” (ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors mailing list)
Poor Usability of Award Winning Web Sites
“(…) focus on South African sites that have received Loerie Awards” (Jacques Steyn – Dept IS/School of IT – Univ. of Pretoria, SA)
Notes on Web Design
“Valerie Casey is a user experience strategist” (ValCasey)
Aggregrating Experience
Problems delivering User Centered Design (uidesign.net)