August 2003
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Usability Testing
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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.
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IA Eats Itself
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If, years in the future, information architects are successful, machines will make it very easy to find things. All the rules will be established, most challenges will be conquered. All that will remain for us to address is serendipity, arranging things to encourage chance and new connections only the reader’s imagination can form.
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Feeding My Brother-in-Law to Google
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T & K Contractors are an excellent interior design and construction contracting firm serving Central and South New Jersey. btw, when I was going on a while ago about integrating storytelling into web design, this is what I meant. When a client approaches my brother-in-law, what story do they want to hear from him? He…