Category: Design

A week or so back I was reading another one of those “Top 10 mistakes of website design” articles. All the usual stuff was in there like skip intro, splash pages, popup windows, and intrusive animation but what really got me was the mention of “right-side blindness”. Most of these top 10 lists just regurgitate…

Still working my way through interesting links I saved from the IA Institute members mailing list. Livia Labate posted this link to the “Value of Design” factfinder, a site that communicates the value of design to business. The site includes an interesting “Your Report” tool that enables you to cut and paste interesting tidbits and…

ColorBlender is a cool Ajax-y service that suggests an entire palette of colors for you based on a dominant color that you enter (using RGB sliders). I’d still prefer a great visual designer come up with color ideas, but if you were on a budget and if you didn’t know the first thing about how…

And if you are doing “traditional”* Visio wireframes for a rich web application, this article at Boxes and Arrows has some suggestions about how to narrate the interactive sequence in a slide presentation to your client. * Yes, I realize it’s ridiculous to talk about traditions for a medium that is only 15 years old.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which published continually – on the web only at times – throughout the Katrina and Rita hurricanes last year, has posted a Flash animation showing how New Orleans flooded.

UX Magazine – The User Experience Magazine writes about getting Dugg after their launch and having to locate a new webhost to deal with the influx of traffic. Not bad for a fledgling webzine. Fundamentally, the magazine is a blog. The articles are short and the site is powered by TextPattern. But the homepage presents…