Category: User Experience
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On Nudity and CSS
Today (April 05, 2006) has officially been earmarked as CSS Naked Day. The aim of this project is to promote web standards by showing the world what each site looks like sans markup. Those who sign up for the project agree to remove all CSS styling from their website for that day. The result is…
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A design pattern for info inboxes
Dan Brown is a brilliant information architect and content management strategist with a forthcoming book called Communicating Design, about producing IA deliverables for websites. On his blog, Green Onions, he posted a few months ago about an emerging design pattern he’s identified related to managing incoming information. He describes the object model thusly: The People…
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37 Theses
New York Times dot com designer Khoi Vinh discusses the 37 Signals manifesto, Get Real (Subtraction: C’mon Feel the Signalz) and the ensuing discussion in his blog’s comments illuminate the controversy Fried and company’s increasingly strident calls-to-arms have stirred up. Vinh tends to admire where the 37s gang is coming from: [I]t’s hard to deny…
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How to Print Selective Sections of a Web Page using CSS and DOM Scripting
Shimone just sent this guide to printing sections of a web page around to our developers’ list with the comment, “You know this is going to come up.”
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Making user research fun (for the users)
Having met Rashmi Sinha at SXSW and again at the IA Summit I’ve been interested in understanding what she’s working on. She’s brilliant so her work product must be equally compelling. Sure enough, her company Uzanto makes a product called MindCanvas that’s used to conduct user research in a game-like way (check out the testimonials…
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Extractable reprazent
uploaded by erin_designr. Erin Malone took this nice pic of me at the IA Summit. The summit was great. Learned a lot. Met very cool people. I’ll probably write up some key takeaways as I digest my thoughts over the next week or so. tags: iasummit2006, iasummit