Jeff Lash has written a useful and interesting article in Digital Web magazine titled, IAnything goes – an interesting article looking at the importance of designing for visitors who don?t …
The Best of CHI-Web & SigIA-l discussions
I thought I posted this in March, but whilst searching the archives I couldn’t find it, so here it is… UIWeb have collated a useful list containing the best of …
A photo of early requirement scoping
For a few days now, my mind has been totally devoted to HCI and Interaction Design, both for a project and a post graduate subject. Here’s a view of my …
Content Management System (CMS) Usability
Australian based company, Step Two post a useful paper on Content Management System (CMS) Usability. The paper looks at some of the usability challenges of a CMS, some of the …
Comparing the Help features of XP and OS X
An interesting look and comparison of the Help features of 2 Operating Systems, Apple’s OS X and Windows XP.
Information Architecture meets Usability
An interesting interview in O’Reilly Net of Lou Rosenfeld, an information architecture consultant and coauthor of O’Reilly’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition and Steve Krug a …
Creating useful 404 (Page Not Found) pages
Madhu Menon posts a useful article on ways in which to best guide users when they encounter a webpage that doesn’t exist or has been moved from a website. The …
User Experience Conference Chicago and London
Here are the dates, summary and list of speakers for the User Experience 2003 conference which is happening in Chicago (Sept 21-25) and London (Oct 6-10).
Brevity Vs. Usability
Here is an interesting article by IBM’s developerWorks on Web Architecture which looks at the need to articulate messages in interfaces and how it can often be more important than …
Differences in LHS and RHS navigation
Here is a useful and interesting journal paper on navigation comparisons for high traffic websites with main navigations on both the left and right hand sides. The research questioned current …
HCI International 2003 Conference
10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction is to be held on June 22-27, 2003 in Crete Greece. The conference will cover, Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with …
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics
The 10 Usability principles/heuristics by Dr. Jakob Nielsen: 1. The visibility of system status 2. The match between system and the real world 3. User control and freedom 4. Consistency …
User Experience in a budget-conscious climate
There is a great article in New Architect by Jesse James Garrett titled All those Opposed: Making the case for user experience in a budget-conscious climate. The article comments on …
The ratio of Clickers to Readers
Jeffrey Zeldman, a well known author on Web Standards comments in his journal on the ratio between users clicking or simply reading over a link, when they read an article …
An Ethnographic Quote
While the ethnographer is interested in understanding human behavior as it is reflected in the lifeways of diverse communities of people, the designer is interested in designing artifacts that will …