THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[April 30, 2001]
merges: Tips for practical newsletter design - "Good newsletters, both HTML and plain text, explain themselves clearly and are focused, well-written information sources."
Wired News: IBM Dream: Self-Policing Networks - "Imagine a world where complicated computer networks need little or no interaction with humans: a world where computers can update and maintain their own systems, shield themselves from misfortune caused by human error and acts of nature ..."
[April 29, 2001]
Economist.com: Scents and sensibility - "Dr Card, a cognitive psychologist [Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre in California], reckons that a user 'forages' through a website in search of a piece of information in a manner similar to that employed by an animal foraging through a forest in search of food ..."
Instant messages introduce many of the same problems that e-mail does.
Usability in Germany: Usability Blog
Michel Fortin: Web Site Planning Can be a Sticky Situation - "Aside from having an objective in mind and working around it as specifically as possible, designers should also plan for contingencies. That is, they must look at all the possible trajectories and outcomes within the site. If a visitor decides to click into a different part of the site, it must be clear as to what they are supposed to learn and do, and where to go next."
[April 26, 2001]
Genealogy.com: Privacy and the Family Home Page - "Before the Internet, genealogists shared family data by exchanging group sheets and publishing the information in book form, which meant that the data was not widely distributed. Genealogy in the Internet age is a different story."
WebmasterBase: 4 Simple Steps to Coloring your WWWorld! - " ... invest the extra time to make sure your color choices aren't damaging your user experience."
ClickZ: Email in Any Language - " ... it will be appropriate soon to ask email recipients to set language preferences when they opt in to receive commercial messages from a marketer."
[April 25, 2001]
Jakob Nielsen: Measuring the Usability of Reading on the Web (1997) - "Five quality metrics: task time, user errors, memory, understanding site structure, and subjective satisfaction."
People are still waking up to the possibilities of the Web.
Computer World: Sun/IBM face-off may benefit users
Peter Merholz: Frames: Information Vs. Application (1998) - "If you're creating an information-centered Web site frames are a bad idea. If you're developing a Web application, frames are a good idea."
[April 22, 2001]
WebWord.com: About Freeloading - " ... a web site without traffic has no power or prestige. Traffic is power, and power can be exchanged for value, money and time." (by John S. Rhodes)
[April 20, 2001]
NYTimes.com (Registration required): And How Do You Feel About Being Polled? - "Despite the eclectic nature of Internet polling, all these surveys have one feature in common: as indicators of public sentiment, they are worthless." (by Ed Boland Jr.)
WebMutant: Web Design Paper - "Everything on a website is information. Pictures, logos, font choices -- these are also conveying information about what kind of company we are."
Good evening, Mr. Jeeves. Do you think you can help me with my car noise problem?
Internet use boosts tech firms' productivity
[April 18, 2001]
Content Wire: Online Information Key to Emergency - "... the Internet, as a communications tool, can be as relevant to rural areas as to urban ones."
[April 16, 2001]
ClickZ: Usability Makes a Comeback - "If you have a site running and still don't know why the logs aren't meeting your expectations, try testing your site for usability." (by Suneet Kheterpal)
[April 15, 2001]
Digital Web Magazine: Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three - "Visual architecture is applied to the new media design context and defined as the use of a particular method of building visual information and balancing communication between images and words." (by Carole Guevin)
ClickZ: Usability Testing Basics
Computerworld: Experts: Computers slouching toward usability - "Most human error is caused by design error." (by Mathew Schwartz)
Many Web sites are cumbersome or impossible for blind users to navigate
[April 14, 2001]
CUergo: Cornell Ergonomics Web Slides, Tutorials, Student Projects
Kids and Computers: Eyes and Visual Systems - "Children can experience many of the same symptoms related to computer use as adults. Extensive viewing of the computer screen can lead to eye discomfort, fatigue, blurred vision, and headaches. However, some unique aspects of how children use computers may make them more susceptible than adults to the development of these problems." (by Dr. Jeffrey R. Anshel, OD)
[April 12, 2001]
Economist.com: Design Darwinism - "Firms drew users to their sites with expensive promotions, he [Jakob Nielsen] explains, and then lost them with ineffective design and bad service. ... Some designers bet too much on technology and forget simplicity."
DATAQUEST: Limits Of Personalization - "With increased concern regarding customer privacy and the potential for legislation, greater sensitivity to methods of collecting profile information will be required." (by Rajeev Nanda)
[April 10, 2001]
UIWEB: The Power of the Usability Lab (1999) - "Usability testing provides significant payback only when it is well integrated into the entire project lifecycle. The value comes from doing regular tests, starting with early prototypes, and repeating trips to the lab at regular intervals as the design and product develops." (by Scott Berkun)
[April 9, 2001]
O'Reilly Network: A Second Look at Netscape 6 - "... aren't newer versions supposed to work better than their predecessors?" (by Steve McCannell)
Linking Rights
The Fine Line Between Legitimate E-Mail Marketing And Spam
[April 7, 2001]
evolt.org: Lost in the matrix - "... it takes work to build decent hierarchies and navigation schemes. And once you've come up with something, test early and often, with real users. ... IA should be dictated by simple solutions that work according to real world standards."
Setting up a web log
[April 5, 2001]
Web Monkey: IE 6 Switches to Standards - "With IE 6 for Windows, you can use the Doctype declaration to switch between different rendering modes."
Geek.com: New Internet Explorer is out - "... Internet Explorer 6 supports the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), giving users the ability to control how their personal information is used by websites."
[April 4, 2001]
Wireless NewsFactor: Google Blasts into Japan with I-Mode Engine - "Using the new application, Google said it can translate a requested HTML document into a format optimized for i-mode users."
The Register: 99% of Web users eat cookies. Yum - "Cookie rejection on the Internet is less than one per cent, according to a survey out today." (by Linda Harrison)
[April 2, 2001]
MusicJournalist.com: The Ten Most Common Mistakes in Music Web Design - "Band sites, for example, have visitors that return several times a day, day after day. To have to wade through flash intros and splash pages every visit is frustrating and annoying, especially when you consider that the great majority of visitors have slow, dial-up connections." (by C.J. Chilvers)
merges: Meaningful personalization - "Websites, software, and consumer products should be customizable, but that customization must be more than mere 'coolness'. Personalization should make users more effective by helping them reach their goals."
[April 1, 2001]
Alertbox: Corporate Websites Get a 'D' in PR - "Corporations spend millions on PR, and yet the press sections of their websites often fail to meet journalists' most basic information needs. In our recent usability study, journalists found answers to only 60% of their questions across a range of corporate sites." (by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne)
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