Category: User Experience

  • OpenID event for developers in Berkeley

    Kaliya “Identity Woman” Hamlin writes: Webwide distributed SSO is finally happening… Learn more from the core guys behind this emerging standard for user-centric digital identity. August 10th 6-9 in Berkeley at 2029 University, Upstairs. RSVP to me kaliya (at) Mac (dot) com and please pass this along to those who might be interested… OpenID is…

  • Blogging interview with Extractable strategist

    Suzanne Stefanac is writing a book on blogging called Dispatches from Blogistan for Peachpit/New Riders. Naturally, she’s been blogging the whole process and posting snippets of work in progress and the texts of interviews she’s conducted for the book. I know Suzanne from The Well, where I host the blog conference and where I’m known…

  • Interview re microformats

    Microformats are standards-compliant structures based primarily on ordinary XHTML tag attributes (such as “rel=” in a link tag). The Knowledge@Wharton website features an excellent interview with Tantek

  • Yahoo launches corporate blog, 'Yodel Anecdotal'

    Interestingly, Yahoo is running their new Yodel Anecdotal corporate blog on WordPress (the same software we run this blog on) and not their own homegrown Yahoo 360 platform. Speaking of blogs, one of our clients recently asked us whether the old rule of thumb that a blog needs a new post every day is really…

  • Jakob says 1024 x 768 is cool

    We talk about what screen resolution to design for a lot of the time, and the compatability cops are always trying to keep us mired in the past, man, but now usability (and hairstyle) guru Jakob Nielsen gives us permission to optimize for 1024 x 768 (Screen Resolution and Page Layout (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)). Of…

  • Friday UX links

    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…