24th
October
2000
“Until relatively recently, the media guru Marshall McLuhan, with his gnomic pronouncements about ‘acoustic space’ and ‘cool’ media and ’square’ people, appeared to be a dated artifact of 1960’s culture destined to go the way of tie-dyed shirts, Peter Max posters and Timothy Leary. ‘Once exalted as oracular, Marshall McLuhan’s theories now seem laughably inadequate as an intellectual guide to our times,’ one critic wrote in 1987, seven years after his death.”
posted in Communications | Permalink |
24th
October
2000
“freshfroot is a streaming index of ideas and inspirations to kickstart creative reactions. Everyday has a different theme, every hour a different found image, bit of text, stray animation, whatever. The flavor is more important than the medium and the flavors are legion. We’re aiming for freshfroot to be a resource for motion web designers, but if you happen to work in old growth logging or second hand knitwear and you still find it useful and stimulating, then we’re happy too.”
posted in Creativity | Permalink |
24th
October
2000
“mesa.font is … a unique onscreen display face built from HTML tags and a pixel, mesa is an attempt at new ways of dealing with browser typography. having more in common with metal type than Postscript faces, mesa’s kerning and leading must be set ‘by hand’ in the HTML code.”
posted in Typography | Permalink |
24th
October
2000
“Summary: There are problems with usability and the usability community. This article is my attempt to raise some of the most important and interesting issues. In my opinion, usability as we know it is dying. It is outdated, misunderstood, and it faces very serious challenges in web and software development circles.”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
24th
October
2000
“Creative Good’s (CG) mission is to improve e-business through a pure focus on the customer experience. Members of the CG team are fanatical about their views and I think I am on my way to becoming a fanatic too. While some at the conference accused CG of being heavy-handed against graphic design, I don’t think it is true. The key to creative good is that they are strongly and passionately focused on creating a good customer experience. Where graphic design can aid understanding and improve experience, I’m sure the CG team is in favor of it.”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
24th
October
2000
“Visual annotation of links is a new technique for adaptive navigation support in adaptive educational hypermedia. This paper explains briefly this technique and reports preliminary experimental results of its evaluation. The results show that adaptive visual annotation is helpful and can reduce user floundering in hyperspace.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
