The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta team & community have published some findings on the use of the UI for the new Firefox 4 Beta with a heatmap of the UI. …
Peter Morville, keynote speaker at EuroIA in Berlin September, 2006
This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC
Livia Labate has uploaded recording from the discussions in last weeks IA Summit 2006 Redux sessions. Here are a few recordings with the discussions: 1. IA Summit Redux Part 1 …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
What is a widget & how to create one in OS X 10.4
Apple have a useful website on developing OS X Dashboard Widgets. I’ve recently upgraded to OS X 10.4.5 from 10.3.9 and I’m fascinated by the widgets in OS X that …
@Media 2005 in London
It looks like the hot topic currently in Sydney, London and everywhere else you can think of, has invited those pushing for accessibility, its methods and approaches, to hold an …
Evan Williams the founder of Blogger quits Google
It was odd today reading that Evan Williams, the founder of Pyra Labs the creators of Blogger (now owned by Google), decided to call it quits and leave his baby …
Examples of CSS3 hacks
Although hacks within CSS is a non-endorsed method by many accessibility advocates, here are some examples of filters and hacks that take advantage of CSS3. And a list of other …
Dave Shea’s presentation from WE04
I was unfortunately away from Sydney, to attend the recent WE04 Accessibility conference, at UTS last week. I soooooooo wanted to be there, especially that I was arriving from the …
What to do with a talking horse?
UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse. Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise …
Fonts for programmers
It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently …
Mark Hurst on increasing knowledge of User Experience
Mark Hurst who runs the website GoodExperience.com has added some valuable and useful tips on how to increase your knowledge and management of customer user experience.
Online tool for creating bookmark icons
A great and useful online tool that creates a browser favourite (bookmark) icon from an imported JPG of GIF. These icons are those 8×8 pixel images that appear next to …
The MT Plugin contest winners
Six Apart and Movable Type have announced the winners of their MT 3.0 Plugin Contest. The plugins are very impressive in maintaining and aiding with the use and security of …