Noise Between Stations

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  • Designer Virus

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    Challis points out Welchia, a noble virus that repairs damage done by the Blaster virus. Now all we need is a noble virus that infiltrates web servers and fixes crappy navigation.

  • The Spaghetti Under Wall St.

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  • Home Page Evolution

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    Quick, take a look at the unconventional Oracle home page before they roll out the new one.

  • Things On Walls

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    Marc Rettig, fountain of wisdom, elaborates and links to a couple docs about using big analog tools with teams.

  • IT & Society on Web Nav

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    Last Winter the online journal IT & Society quietly published an entire issue on web navigation. It’s somewhat ironic that the issue is one page of abstracts that link to PDFs :-) Still, there’s probably goodness there; I’ll be starting with David R. Danielson’s Transitional Volatility in Web Navigation.

  • I’m Starting to Feel That Way About Univers

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    Owen found a Make It Bigger excerpt, and I love this part: ‘I had rebelled against the Swiss international style because the act of organizing the Helvetica typeface on a grid reminded me of cleaning up my room. Also I viewed Helvetica, the visual language of corporations, as the establishment typeface and therefore somehow responsible…

  • Product Cross-Dressing

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    OK, is it me, or does this mobile phone look like a Zippo? Makes one think about how to combine various things we keep in our pockets. And how about this Porsche SUV and this Hyundai SUV?

  • Faceted Metadata and Choosing the Right User Interface

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    Tanya’s revealing of her technique for setting facets for her blog was the catalyst that reminded me of a comment Peterme made regarding facets: ‘The system can never know which particular strategy a given user wants to employ — so why not avail them of them all?‘ I don’t think he really means all facets…

  • CSS for Emails

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    Anitra, via Owen, provides some links for coding happy emails, an area new to me: you can read a CSS thread, search for email clients, or read the guidelines.

  • WWW Code

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  • Jeffrey Heer

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    Heer, part of Peter Pirolli’s research group, has a blog and some interesting projects.

  • Persona Images on The Cheap

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    Need a quick image to place in a persona doc? Try going to images.google.com and typing in “[persona name] headshot.” For example, here’s Tony and Maria.

  • The Goal of Usability Testing

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    What is the goal of usability testing? Let’s say it’s to improve the user’s experience. The user’s experience will improve when designers have the skills and resources to design well. The designers will improve when they have a better understanding of the users. Usability testing offers us some understanding of users. The direct goal of…

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  • End User Slut

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    Molly’s a wonderfully naughty girl.