July 2001

Interface Usability in Flash

"(...) Flash is one of the best design tools to effectively break most of those extreme rules of usability" (Merien Q. Kunst - iBoost Journal)

Posted by PJB on July 27, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

A Comparison of Popular Online Fonts: Which is Best and When?

"(...) a majority of sites use 12-point fonts" (Michael Bernard et al. - Usability News Summer 2001 - SURL)

Posted by PJB on July 24, 2001 | Classification: Typography | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Seth Gordon

"(...) Seth discusses the state of the industry and his take on information architecture metrics." (ACIA)

Posted by PJB on July 20, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Learning About and Keeping Up with Information Architecture

"(...) to learn about what information resources and events members of the field used to learn about and keep up with information architecture" (ACIA)

Posted by PJB on July 20, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Blurb Gallery

"(...) how to display the headlines and summaries" (Victor Lombardi - noise between stations)

Posted by PJB on July 20, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The difference between information design and information architecture

"Includes comments by Richard Saul Wurman, Karen Schriver, Lou Rosenfeld, and many more" (STC Information Design SIG - Design Matters)

Posted by PJB on July 13, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Organic Information Design

"(...) this thesis introduces a visualization process" (Benjamin Fry - Aesthetics & Computation Group MIT Media Lab)

Posted by PJB on July 13, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Coming to Terms

"(...) when the map doesn't match the territory, it's time to change the map" (George Olsen - InteractionByDesign)

Posted by PJB on July 13, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

What's in a name

Commentaries and Responses

Posted by PJB on July 13, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Understanding Business

"(...) information architecture is designing information that people understand and use to make their business more successful" (M. Johnson)

Posted by PJB on July 12, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Making Information Visual

"Creating Effective Web Pages" (Redish & Associates, Inc.)

Posted by PJB on July 12, 2001 | Classification: InfoViz | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Effects of Systematic Usability Testing on Web Site Development and Facilitation

"(...) to show measurable effects of usability studies" (Linda M. Davis - School of Information Science & Learning Technology - University of Missouri)

Posted by PJB on July 11, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Use Case Maps

"(...) they can help you to describe and understand emergent behaviour of complex and dynamic systems" (Use Case Maps User Group - Carleton University)

Posted by PJB on July 11, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Computer 'Revolution' Hasn't Happened Yet!

"Alan Kay is best known for the idea of personal computing (...)" (EDUCOM'98)

Posted by PJB on July 11, 2001 | Classification: Classics | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

User Modeling Inc.

"a non-profit organization (...) to serve the user modeling research community" (Ingrid Zukerman et al.)

Posted by PJB on July 10, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

A Comprehension-Based Model of Web Navigation and Its Application to Web Usability Analysis

Peter Polson's Presentation from the May 9, 2001 MOCHI Meeting

Posted by PJB on July 10, 2001 | Classification: Navigation | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Ten Year Anniversary Issue (UMUAI - Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Posted by PJB on July 10, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Do We Know What the User Knows, and Does It Matter?

The Epistemics of User Modeling (Michael Ramscar et al. - Sixth International Conference on User Modeling)

Posted by PJB on July 10, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

How do we justify, sell, and measure IA and usability?

Notes from the New York City Information Architecture and Usability Meeting

Posted by PJB on July 09, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Jeffrey Zeldman

Take your talent to the Web (Adobe)

Posted by PJB on July 06, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Initial Experience Predictor

"(...) a checklist that will predict a novice end-user’s initial experience with consumer desktop PCs" (Ease of Use Roundtable)

Posted by PJB on July 05, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Design for Process, Not Products

"Customers need compelling reasons to complete complex tasks on the Web." (Jakob Nielsen - Business 2.0)

Posted by PJB on July 05, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

So You Want To Be An Interaction Designer

"(...) how one goes about becoming an interaction designer" (Robert Reimann - Cooper Interaction Design)

Posted by PJB on July 03, 2001 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Good Grips

Usability Before Branding (Bruce Tognazzini)

Posted by PJB on July 03, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Quality of Experience

Research Report 2001 (QoX)

Posted by PJB on July 03, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Inside Information

"(...) it was Claude Shannon who made information into a technical term" (Howard Rheingold's Tools for Thought)

Posted by PJB on July 03, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Jakob Nielsen

"(...) the man people turn to when they want to know what makes a good Web site" - (Kim Gilmour - Internet Magazine)

Posted by PJB on July 02, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

eLearning and The Attention Economy

Here, There, Everywhere? (Thomas Davenport - LiNE Zine)

Posted by PJB on July 02, 2001 | Classification: Instructional design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Scopeware

"(...) to manage all of your electronic information from one place, turning static data into dynamic intelligence" (Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. - David Gelernter et al.)

Posted by PJB on July 01, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack