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D. Keith Robinson posted about Web design skills of a successful Web designer. His list: General Communication Interpersonal Communication Problemsolving Patience Adaptibility Information Architecture for the Web Visual Design Programming Web Development Writing Project Management I agree, for the most part, with his list. I wanted to take a crack at my own, from a […]
It appears that Amazon is playing with a redesign currently. It also seems to only show to random visitors. It looks like they have redesigned their tabs a bit. But the coolest part is what they are doing with their “See all categories” tab When you mouse over the categories tab, it pops up a […]
The first thing I read (and subsequently most of what came up in my RSS Aggregator for the rest of the day) when I turned on my computer at work on Monday was about the Adobe Macromedia Acquisition. Kottke does a great job of rounding up most of the important news and opinions on the […]
It was only a matter of time. Spyware takes aim at Mozilla It’ll be interesting to see what comes out eventually. Note that this does not currently affect Firefox. Sjouwerman said that “stealth spyware” targeted at Firefox is “bound to happen” as hackers are currently working hard trying to find security holes in the open-source […]
Sound advice So you want to be a consultant Or: Why work 8 hours a day for someone else, when you can work 16 hours a day for yourself?
Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering has some interesting commentary on What makes a design seem intuitive. The distance between current knowledge and target knowledge has a technical name: “The Gap”. (Subsequently, an entire chain of clothing stores was named after it!) The Knowledge Gap is where design happens. We don’t need to design to […]
The U.S. National Cancer Institute recently did a user study of screen reader users. The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to * understand […]
I’ve seen this in a few places around the Web and in E-mail forwards. It’s a fun caricature of the frustrations of working with some clients. Note: I’ve never had a client that has looked like this (except for various University committees…) ————————————— Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am […]
*GASP* Content Management without a hugely expensive, unnecessary, bloated, proprietary system? Never… D. Keith Robinson on Content Management without a System. Shocking. Who would have guessed that the publication process could be more important than the technology?
About two-thirds of my time at work is spent banging my head against some sort of content management system. One that I am in the process of developing, and another hulking behemoth that I have been asked to “help” with. If I were ever to build another CMS up from scratch (which I am currently […]
An interesting (if unscientific) investigation (I won’t call it a study…) into how people look at/scan/browse a Web page was recently conducted by several media agencies. Eyetrack III, sought to answer a few questions of great interest to Web designers: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to […]
Dave Shea of Mezzoblue (who is a great designer btw) on design critics: I�m almost convinced that anyone whose critique of a redesign is as substantial as: �I don�t like the green.� �is someone who absolutely fails to understand the purpose of web design, and should give up any aspirations in the profession. And my […]