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(Illustration by L. Chylinski, CMI, Inc.) Across the street from Mere‘s office, the Ames Public Library is undergoing a massive renovation. Lasting an estimated 18 months, the building is being rehauled from the ground up to better serve the community. Costing around $20 million dollars, the project will more than double the space inside the […]
Slate posted an article (which I didn’t finish reading) about how few people finish reading an article online before “bouncing” (leaving without reading anything) or heading off to comment before they are finished. They are making three assumptions I’d like to call out: * They assume their articles are worth finishing * They assume that […]
Last week, Jay Younts asked me to be a pinch hitter guest on his radio show. Â We had a great chat about the Internet and it’s use for God’s mission, some notes on the theology of vocation, a bit on the importance of excellence and usability in Web design. We even get a bit into […]
The October 2009 Usability News Newsletter has a great article highlighting a recent typography study on Web font faces. Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces > This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and […]
A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe? – Corey Chandler Lead Interaction Designer, eBay Inc – Jake Cressman Producer, Electronic Arts – Chris Maliwat Sr Dir of Prod Mgmt, Vuze Inc – Micah Alpern Design Dir Social Search, Yahoo! Inc – Elliot Shmukler Principal Prod Mgr, LinkedIn Very valuable panel on testing design changes to determine […]
Making Wii-friendly pages
It’s high time I start keeping track of good and bad things I see around the Internet and telling you, my dear readers, about them. So at the risk of throwing stones, or maybe making the Internet a better place to live, I bring you: Why On Earth Did They Do It That Way? That […]
Joe Clarke published his Iceweb 2006: Speaking notes and usability-test results on AJAX.
(I’m a few days late on this, but…) here are the Ten deadly sins of web design. I agree completely.
As you may have noticed, I rebooted for May 1. It was about time I get an original design. (Many thanks to Green Marinee for serving me well for the last several months.). But as usual, I am trailing in behind the masters, I hope the gap is closing, but I fear it isn’t. My […]
X3Church.com redesigned. I don’t like it :(. It is now out of my “favorite Web designs” list. The design is less appealing to me, and their code went from bad to worse. Now they are stuck in a frame set, thus making it impossible for me to link to any single page inside the site. […]
Mr. Zeldman has a beautiful editorial over at A List Apart regarding all the hype around “Web 2.0”. A particularly inspiring quote: …ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with […]