“It’s our fifth anniversary! To celebrate, we’ve created this special area of our store. You’ll find our baby pictures (an early Amazon.com home page accompanied by our logo graveyard), a timeline, bestseller lists dating back to our upstart start, the best-of and worst-of customer reviews, and a liberal sampling of editors’ favorites.”

“This page anticipates a style of Web design that I hope to see a lot of a few years from now, that I’ll call ‘content-centered Web design’. I’ve been working it out using James Joyce as the test topic. The defining goal of this style is to deliver the best possible response to search-engine queries on a given topic, taking into account the widest range of motives for those searches. So no matter what a person wants to know about a topic, if your page comes up in their search-results you want to give them the best possible answer, or guide them to where they can find it. The primary strategy for achieving this goal is to exhaustively and continuously scour the Web for available resources on the topic, and link them all.”

“Welcome to Usability First. This website provides essential information to help make websites and other software easier to use. Usability FirstTM is the principle that in designing software and other human artifacts, the most important goal is to design for usability — that is, designing products for people that help them do their work in an effective and satisfying way should be the top priority. Usability is the characteristic of being easy to use.”

“I am a creative director, my brother Jay, is a technical director. I attended school at Rhode Island School of Design and studied graphic design, Jay went to Carnegie Mellon for computer science — we were seemingly polar opposites until the advent of the Internet. Jay and I are now founding partners of the Independent Design Group, a user experience design and engineering firm. Having software engineers for parents, I sometimes feel that I have spent most of my life trying to ease the communication gap between software engineers and visual designers. Fortunately, engineers and visual designers share some conceptual overlaps in the terms ‘architecture’ and ‘design.’ Unfortunately, those terms are not always used in a common way…”

“This page anticipates a style of Web design that I hope to see a lot of a few years from now, that I’ll call ‘content-centered Web design’. I’ve been working it out using James Joyce as the test topic. The defining goal of this style is to deliver the best possible response to search-engine queries on a given topic, taking into account the widest range of motives for those searches. So no matter what a person wants to know about a topic, if your page comes up in their search-results you want to give them the best possible answer, or guide them to where they can find it. The primary strategy for achieving this goal is to exhaustively and continuously scour the Web for available resources on the topic, and link them all.”

“I am a creative director, my brother Jay, is a technical director. I attended school at Rhode Island School of Design and studied graphic design, Jay went to Carnegie Mellon for computer science — we were seemingly polar opposites until the advent of the Internet. Jay and I are now founding partners of the Independent Design Group, a user experience design and engineering firm. Having software engineers for parents, I sometimes feel that I have spent most of my life trying to ease the communication gap between software engineers and visual designers. Fortunately, engineers and visual designers share some conceptual overlaps in the terms ‘architecture’ and ‘design.’ Unfortunately, those terms are not always used in a common way…”