THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[March 31, 2001]
A List Apart: A Failure to Communicate - "User interface designers and information architects should know enough about each other's jobs to understand where these overlaps occur ..."
usefulinc: The Pragmatic Web (1999) - " ...Your boss is not the audience!"
dack.com: Best Practices for Designing Shopping Cart and Checkout Interfaces - "As the growing number of internet users are given the opportunity to purchase more goods and services online, it is becoming increasingly important to the success of e-commerce that the online buying experience be clear, quick, and easy."
Index DOT Css - The Advanced CSS Resource
[March 30, 2001]
evolt.org: Page Title Labeling - "The labeling of page titles is a task of the Information Architect, the same way we label information chunks, buttons and tools, but page titles are sometimes overlooked or forgotten. Page titles are fundamental in describing the content of a page."
Computerworld: Where Humans and Machines Meet - " ... the most important decisions about computer design are those about I/O devices, since that's where humans meet machines."
Time Not on Your Computer's Side
[March 28, 2001]
Wired News: How Secure Is Digital Hospital? - "... But the biggest barrier to high-tech healthcare is doctors' concerns about the security of computer systems."
ClickZ: Keeping Links Alive - "After reorganizing content on a site and using techniques to keep links alive, it's important to check for broken links within the site."
The role of culture in user interface design - " ... the Pandora's box of 'culture' is moving from the borders of HCI to the forefront."
Wireless NewsFactor: Studies: Japanese Love, Hate Wireless Web - "Japan's Internet population will explode in the next few years because of soaring Web-enabled mobile phone use ..."
[March 27, 2001]
shirky.com: An Open Letter to Jakob Nielsen (1999) - "Jakob believes that the prevalence of bad design on the Web is an indication that the current method of designing Web sites is not working and should be replaced or augmented with a single set of design conventions. I believe that the Web is an adaptive system and that the prevalence of bad design is how evolving systems work."
Advogato: How to Write Maintainable Code - "I suggest that you judge code based on it's maintainability. Truly maintanable code is flexible and can be taken in many directions ..."
[March 26, 2001]
Gerry McGovern: Branding for dummies - "Branding on the Web is different. It's about creating successful websites that are simple, functional, and focused on what your customer needs."
HitBox.com: Designing for the Disabled - "Designing with disabilities in mind helps make the Internet accessible for everyone, and helps maximize your audience."
[March 24, 2001]
InternetNews: HP to Roll Out Web-enabled Printers - "HP Tuesday debuted a series of LaserJet printers that allow consumers to scan documents directly to the Web ..."
irt.org (via xblog): Links Want To Be Links - "This document explains why you, as a Web page author, should not try to prevent Web browsers from displaying textual links underlined and image links with borders around them. It also discusses common mistakes in setting (suggesting) colors for textual links. In special cases, it might actually help users if you 'tailor' link presentation ..."
[March 23, 2001]
About.com: Weight Loss for Web Pages - "Page load time is like navigation, if it's good, nobody notices, but if it's bad, they're gone."
Choosing and Using Type - "The right typeface can encourage people to read your message. The wrong typeface or bad typography can make your message go unread."
Rules of Thumb for Web Design (1998) - "Keep your hands off the status line! Status-line crawlers are a popular toy, but they take away link information that the user may consider more important than your crawler."
A List Apart: Instant WAP !
[March 21, 2001]
WebmasterBase: 7 Principles of Universal Design - "This design philosophy endeavours to design software and equipment from the start in such a way that the widest possible range of users (with different skills and abilities) can use it."
merges: How to make wireless directory services useful - "Wireless directory services need to recognize both the limitations and the benefits of mobile phones, by making search results more to-the-point and context-sensitive."
[March 20, 2001]
Testing Electronic Commerce Websites - "Keep your Testing Requirements Simple: Accessibility, Performance, Functionality."
Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir: Stationary Mobility - "Mobile Internet access will free us from having to connect appliances to telephone jacks and will make smart devices much easier to install. In fact, they may not need a user interface at all, as exemplified by the Japanese i-pot."
[March 18, 2001]
Nielsen Norman Group: Intranet Design Review: Ten Best Intranet Designs of 2001 - "We are conducting a survey of the best and most usable intranet designs in the world. The ten best designs will be published in a report which will be available for download from this page later in 2001."
[March 17, 2001]
About: Splash Page Perfection - "You never get a second chance to make a first impression ..."
Robin Williams: Bad Web Design Features
HitBox.com: The Truth About Fonts - "When designing pages for the web you have to really pay attention to details ..."
[March 16, 2001]
IBM - developerWorks: Debunking the myths of UI design - "This article identifies a series of cultural myths and presents realistic conclusions from my extensive experience in user interface design. I'll also address current trends in World Wide Web design."
What programs contain Spyware?
[March 14, 2001]
WebmasterBase: How to Avoid Amateur Design Mistakes - "... What you're aiming for is to draw attention to the important bits - the message, the navigation system or whatever is the main thrust of the page."
Nua Knowledge Base: Web typography: the rookie mistakes - "Cluttering a webpage with colors, imposing unfamiliar formats on hyperlinks, and using illegible type for art’s sake are the classic mistakes of novice web publishers."
Wired News: Pirates Experience Office XP - "Microsoft has added security features ..."
[March 13, 2001]
TLC Systems: Art and the Zen of Web Sites (1997) - "The intelligent use of graphic elements and design can add greatly to the attractiveness of a web page. But it's like putting on makeup -- you have to know when to stop."
Denver Rocky Mountain News: Web bugs secretly track you online
[March 12, 2001]
Gerry McGovern: The Web for dummies - "Web designers need to learn to concentrate on creating webpages that are easy to understand and navigate rather than pages that have cool graphics and plug-ins."
FSB: The Six Mistakes You Should Never Make on Your Website - "Web surfers don't like wasting time ..."
[March 10, 2001]
InfoWorld: AI set to deliver Web pages that think - "... a site with AI [ARTIFICIAL intelligence] capabilities gives users a better experience and therefore increases use of the site."
CyberAtlas: Community Banks Use Net to Keep Up
[March 09, 2001]
Evaluating Assistive Technology Prototypes: Laboratory or Real Life Contexts? (1998) - "Any kind of usability evaluation is better than conducting none at all. Laboratory evaluations are highly controllable, but artificial, whereas contextual evaluations are more realistic, but less controllable. Both approaches complement each other and are necessary before commercialisation of a prototype."
[March 08, 2001]
System Concepts: Ergonomics data for design - "Information on peoples' characteristics and abilities (such as body sizes, strength, motor skills and so on) can help make sure products 'fit' as many potential users as possible, and the benefits of using these data in the early stages of the design process are widely recognised."
webmonkey: Death of the Websafe Color Palette?
[March 07, 2001]
Darwin Online: Creative Tension - "The Internet puts usability in a [new] focus."
First Monday: Playing the Links: Interactivity and Stickiness in .Com and "Not.Com" Web Sites - "This study examined heavily-visited Web sites, looking for differences between the .com and not.com sites in number and nature of links, both internal and external."
Nua Knowledge Base: A new, cleaner look for web content - "Banner advertising is often distracting and intrusive but some websites are developing a new approach to web advertising, which may lead to cleaner, less-cluttered webpages in the future."
[March 06, 2001]
merges: How to make URLs user-friendly - "One of the worst elements of the web from a user interface standpoint is the URL. However, if they're short, logical, and self-correcting, URLs can be acceptably usable."
Wired News: Report Pans Internet Voting - "E-voting requires a much greater level of security than e-commerce."
Tibor Kalman - "Strive to provide value in your projects that extend beyond yourself and your own ego ..."
[March 05, 2001]
dack.com: The Excellent Intranet Cost Analyzer - "Not finding information can be expensive."
HumanCentric Technologies - "Services provided include product research, design, and evaluation in the areas of human factors, ergonomics, usability and documentation."
[March 04, 2001]
WebReview: Introducing Web Accessibility - "Making Web sites accessible isn't just a recommended thing to do, it's the right thing to do."
dack.com: Flash vs. HTML: A Usability Test - "The purpose of this experiment was to test a hypothesis that sites built in Flash are less usable than similar sites built in HTML."
[March 03, 2001]
Medical Device Link: Human Factors and the Future of Telemedicine (1999) - "Human factors as a discipline can and will play an important role in ensuring that the user remains central to the design of a system and that usability is designed into the system and verified and validated through test and evaluation."
A List Apart: Web Designer and Proud of It! - "... we need to be able to channel visitors of a website to the information that will answer their questions."
[March 02, 2001]
The Role of Flow in Web Design - "... I think of flow in a design as the movement of a person from their desire to their satisfaction, in as natural and easy a way as possible. A good developer, designer, or creator of anything strives to allow users to experience this kind of flow."
merges: Effective use of forms on websites - "Building trust and confidence is an essential part of positive user experience. (...) When considering use of a form, it's important to remember how much most people hate filling out complicated ballots, tax returns, registration forms, and surveys. Web forms are no more fun."
[March 01, 2001]
Banktech - Web Banking: Quickness and Usability Keys to Successful Web Sites - "On the Web, the human factor beats technical virtuosity. (...) The essential questions are always: Can users learn the structures easily? Are there key functions missing? Which functions can be left out? Where are users getting stuck or confused? Do the component parts work well together?"
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