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Category Archives: InterfaceDesign

Infographic: What Makes Someone Leave a Website?

Source: What Makes Someone Leave A Website? ++ Click Image to See Original or Enlarge ++

Review: Designing for Emotion

  product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]

Mapping with Flickr

Have you played with the map function on Flickr? I’ve been ignoring it, choosing not to give my location on my photos because I put up a lot of family photos and I didn’t want them identified by location. I administer a group on Flickr for Women in Tech. Maybe you’ve noticed the tiny slideshow [...]

Now Available! InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design

InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]

IA Teachers: Take the survey

The Information Architecture Institute is currently doing some research. Take the survey. More . . .

Useful Links: Books, WCAG 2

I Hate Books at KnowIT. Miraz explains why books are obsolete and should be replaced with something better. I provided several links in my post yesterday about WCAG 2. However, the information on this topic is vast. Here are two more. WCAG 2 and mobileOK Basic Tests specs are proposed recommendations report at WaSP. It’s [...]

What’s your position on pixels, ems and percentages?

What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of the various measures—pixels, ems, percentage—used on the web? Do you have a favorite that you fall back on using most of the time? If so, why?

A Senior PC?

Who is a senior? Someone over 65? Boomers are between 44 and 62. Ronni Bennett at Time Goes By defines elders as anyone over age 50. Does being of a certain age mean that you require special accomodations in the form of a “Senior PC” or an extra simple cell phone or an adapted elderbrowser? [...]

Research report on best practices

User Interface Engineering — UIE Reports: Getting Them to What They Want. “In its report, “Getting Them to What They Want,” UIE says it drew on six years of research and hundreds of hours of user observations to discern the eight best practices for getting users to the content they seek,” according to PCWorld’s article [...]