THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[April 27, 2003]
NewsFactor: IT: More About People Than Technology - "The critical role of information technology may not lie so much with the technology, but with the people who use it, a new study reports. The impact of information technology on organizational performance is more clearly illustrated by actual IT usage than by traditional measures, such as the amount invested in technology, according to University of Notre Dame researchers Rajiv Kohli and Sarv Devaraj."
[April 24, 2003]
BBC: "Virus writers attempt to use psychological trickery to spread their creations."
[April 23, 2003]
InfoVis.net: Conceptual Presentations - "Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the same time, the solution. [...] Switching to visual presentations requires considerable effort, specially when the graphics have to been mastered by ourselves. Nevertheless the impact and improvement in the transmission of ideas is really noticeable and can make the difference between delivering the message or showering the audience with difficult to assimilate words."
Intranet Journal: Putting Paper on Your Intranet - "Paper is still the world's most ubiquitous file type, and it's the way every organization did all of its business until just a few years ago. Is it time to get some of those legacy paper documents out of the file cabinets and onto the intranet?"
Mercury News: Estonia blazes Internet trail - "The number of Estonians who bank online soared from zero in 1997 to 700,000 this year. That's half the country's 1.4 million people. [...] The rapid embrace of online banking is but one example of the remarkable tech transformation of this Baltic nation where most people didn't even have a phone when Soviet control ended in 1991."
Tom Lehrer - "I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
Oscar Wilde - "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
[April 17, 2003]
Josh Porter (User Interface Engineering): Testing the Three-Click Rule - "Is all of your content available within three clicks? Does it matter if it isn't? We recently looked to see whether this popular design rule was really worth following."
Indi Young (adaptive path): Site Navigation: Keeping It Under Control - "If users feel like they can explore your site without getting hopelessly lost, they're more likely to spend time there. That translates into good things, like more revenue, better communication, and more information sharing."
Amy Lawless (STC Usability SIG Newsletter): Creating a Usable Electronic Newsletter In House - "Many organizations are opting to convert existing print publications into electronic newsletters (e-newsletters)-and for good reason. By following a few guidelines, you can launch a usable and successful e-newsletter."
[April 16, 2003]
NewScientist.com: Women need widescreen for virtual navigation - "Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men."
Mark Bernstein (Hypertext Now): Beyond the Portal - "Portal sites do attract tremendous traffic, and many people use them daily. But portals are much less important to the shape of the Web than most people believe. [...] Small sites can afford mistakes that, for big sites, lead to erosion of brand integrity and unproductive finger-pointing. Worry about blame leads to design by committee. Some small sites will gain audience and become large, with the advantages and disadvantages of scale. Large sites that become dull and stale will wither, and as they decay may well spin off new, small sites. This cycle of regeneration, if it can be sustained, will keep the Web interesting (and volatile)."
Gerry McGovern - "The fundamental difference between print content and web content is that web content has the potential to be much more action-oriented."
Dan Gillmor (Mercury News): Designing new handhelds to improve human-computer interaction
[April 12, 2003]
J. Dawn Mercedes, Ph.D. (Digital Web Magazine): Flashes of Brilliance and Use-Centered Design - "Can Macromedia Flash really add value to a Web site? Or is Flash content on the Web so prone to usability problems that it can never be fully effective?"
WebReference: Interview: Lou Rosenfeld and Steve Krug on User Experience
NewsFactor: "The cell phone browser war has only just begun. Really, the mobile Internet is more of a gleam in a futurist's eye than a market reality. Ninety percent of users talk and send text messages quite happily without a browser. But it's surely on the way. As the competition for wireless browser market share heats up, it will bear no resemblance to Browser War I. The PC world is sedate by comparison to the Wild West chaos of the cell phone market."
Tom Gilder: Accessible Scripting Articles
[April 9, 2003]
InfoVis.net: Attentive User Interfaces (AUIs) - "Until now each device has been acting without taking into account the other ones that need the attention of the user. Consequently the different devices we own compete for our attention, leading to a critical usability issue. In order to improve this situation, researchers are beginning to work on interfaces that negotiate the timing and the amount of communication they hold with the user. They are called Attentive User Interfaces (AUIs) because they try to monitor where the attention of the user is focused, weighing up the importance of the information they supply with the estimated priorities of the user's focused activity."
Christine Perfetti and Lori Landesman (User Interface Engineering): How many users is enough when conducting usability tests?
[April 8, 2003]
eWEEK.com: Acrobat Gets a New Face, Additional Tools - "Adobe Systems Inc. has taken a great product and improved it just enough to make it a must-have upgrade. Acrobat-the pre-eminent tool for generating documents in the popular PDF file format-is now easier to use and is more tightly integrated into commonly used applications."
BBC News: Computers that watch while you work - "We now need computers that sense when we are busy, when we are available for interruption and know when to wait their turn - just as we do in human-to-human interaction," said Dr Vertegaal [ Director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario ].
[April 6, 2003]
Game Research: Narrative and Interactivity - "This article aims to examine the concepts of interactivity and narrative and why, where and how developers can harness their power to make engaging games."
Gerry McGovern: "The Web is a cold, clinical, feedback-starved environment."
[April 5, 2003]
Jodi Forlizzi (via HyDeSign): Towards a Framework of Interaction and Experience As It Relates to Product Design - "Our goal is to make experience accessible to designers -- to make our theory of interaction design live in practice, by allowing designers to conceive of designing experiences rather than designing products. What follows is a brief overview of the descriptive framework of experience and user-product interactions."
Nora Paul and Christina Fiebich: The Elements of Digital Storytelling
[April 4, 2003]
Danny Sullivan: Making An RSS Feed - "RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that you'd like others to use. In other words, it's a mechanism to 'syndicate' your content."
Kristof Saelen (Digital Web Magazine): The process of redesigning a logo
Peter Merholz (Adaptive Path): Finding the Right Users - "Relevant user research results depend on two factors: First, obviously, you'll need to find people who are likely to use the product. Second, you'll need to interview enough of them so that trends emerge from their collective behavior. These trends will indicate your primary design targets. [...] Every project has limits on time and money, so while it might be ideal to study each distinct audience type, we'll have to choose those that likely provide the greatest return, from both a business and research perspective."
Fast tracking - "Sophisticated software and hardware are giving wildlife trackers an almost instant overview of plant and animal patterns. Ultimately, this will offer scientists a more profound understanding of how nature interacts."
[April 2, 2003]
Eric Ward and Dr. Ralph F. Wilson: Linking Strategies that Improve Traffic to Your Site - "Many people look at developing links to their site as a way to improve 'link popularity' for better search engine ranking. But they overlook the traffic that such links can bring to a site on their own. Linking strategies serve a dual function for significant traffic in their own right as well as improving search engine rankings."
Henrik Olsen (GUUUI): Supporting customers' decision-making process - "A commerce site should act as a skilled salesperson, and have answers ready to any question or concern that the customer might have."
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