Category: Design

Postdated edition: 10 Foot World, Inc. (all about applications for Media Center’s ’10 foot interface’ 10 foot interface showdown A microstudy of tagging (Gene Smith discusses the physical tagging of nametags at this year’s IA Summit – includes an inset picture of my own tag cloud) SEO page ‘strength’ gauge (via atomiq) Writing vs. rewriting…

The Iconfactory (via Digg, or reddit, or something)

Seattle edition: User Interface Design – Taking the Good with the Bad (good Digital Web article about the inherent tradeoffs in UI design and why you can never please everyone Part one of jjg’s conversation with Steven Johnson Part one of Dan Saffer’s conversation with Dan Brown (they both have web design books out or…

In response to a recent post by Thomas Vander Wal, in which he said, “One approach, which seems to be growing in popularity is [to build] sites that work and Ajax and scripting to augment and improve simplicity,” Austin Govella replied, writing The term of art for this is “progressive enhancement”. Often in contrast to…

Dan Klyn assembled a set of guided navigation UI widgets at his Wildly Appropriate blog back in January, introducing them by writing, “For a good long while now I’ve been meaning to create a spreadsheet or Flickr set or something which could serve as a systematic and comprehensive roundup of the UI widgets that folks…

Shiv Singh, who writes AARF’s Workplace Blog, points to a report on intranet best practices his enterprise solutions group just published. Downloading the full report requires registration, or you can listen to a three-part podcast summarizing the findings. Details can be found in Singh’s Corporate Intranets Best Practices post on his blog.