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10th July 2000

Lisa GUI Prototypes

“A pictorial history of the ‘Apple Desktop Interface’ 1979-2000.”

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10th July 2000

An Information Designer’s View of Web Site Development

“Effective communication on the World Wide Web involves more than just understanding how people read and navigate through electronic information. For information designer Karen McGrane, it also involves understanding how that information conveys a company’s overall presence in cyberspace.”

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10th July 2000

A Design Method

“When working in a high-powered production environment like the web, developing a design method can help you get more done faster… and provide you with rules to break. Tutorial by Ross Olson for A List Apart.”

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10th July 2000

Making sure Usability ‘Fitts’ Flash

“We Flash designers have to look outside our field for guidelines to help us make out usability decisions. One field that I think can be helpful is interface design, in particular one simple, absolute, and immutable rule of interface design that hold up against the test of time, Fitt’s Law (pronounced Fitizez). Flash designers can apply this law to our field because it involves the way people use their mouse (or other pointing devices) to interact with the computer. The designers of your operating system used Fitt’s Law to determine how the buttons, menus and other elements would appear and act. Flash designers have much to gain from understanding the applications of Fitt’s Law.”

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10th July 2000

GoodDocuments.com

“How to write everyday documents for the new Web medium, started by Dan Bricklin of Trellix Corporation. How to write for the INTRAnet: A web-site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet.”

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10th July 2000

An Information Designer’s View of Web Site Development

“Effective communication on the World Wide Web involves more than just understanding how people read and navigate through electronic information. For information designer Karen McGrane, it also involves understanding how that information conveys a company’s overall presence in cyberspace.”

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10th July 2000

Making sure Usability ‘Fitts’ Flash

“We Flash designers have to look outside our field for guidelines to help us make out usability decisions. One field that I think can be helpful is interface design, in particular one simple, absolute, and immutable rule of interface design that hold up against the test of time, Fitt’s Law (pronounced Fitizez). Flash designers can apply this law to our field because it involves the way people use their mouse (or other pointing devices) to interact with the computer. The designers of your operating system used Fitt’s Law to determine how the buttons, menus and other elements would appear and act. Flash designers have much to gain from understanding the applications of Fitt’s Law.”

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10th July 2000

Lisa GUI Prototypes

“A pictorial history of the ‘Apple Desktop Interface’ 1979-2000.”

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