“Think broadband will blaze a trail to a more exciting, multimedia Web? Think again… There are plenty of good ways for Web designers to use broadband. But cramming flashy videos and whizzy animations down a user’s DSL line isn’t one of them.”

Nice stuff. “We have created these categories to give you faster and easier access to our product line. Choose a category and you will discover great functional and useful items to fill your specific needs.”

“AE-Shorts is a collection of digital experiments: a visual investigation and evolutionary process catalogued and recorded within a 3-Dimensional interface… Why: We think of shorts as research, helping us develop our skills by indulging our ideas about user interactivity, cycles of time, space, motion or texture. Shorts can take the form of interactive elements, allowing the user to manipulate visuals dynamically. Sometimes the shorts can simply play out a sequence without any interaction required from the user.”

Nice stuff. “We have created these categories to give you faster and easier access to our product line. Choose a category and you will discover great functional and useful items to fill your specific needs.”

“It’s crucial for websites to provide search interfaces that are available, simple, and productive. This article gives basic instructions about how to test your website’s search interface for usability.” By Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne.

“FindSame is an entirely new kind of search engine that looks for content, not keywords. You submit an entire document, and FindSame returns a list of Web pages that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text.”

“Even before the ‘Love Bug’ computer worm cut a global swath of cyber-destruction, the Pentagon was fighting another software enemy: the Powerpoint electronic chart. It’s choking up the Pentagon computers.”

“With standard usability tests, investigators are usually able to answer ‘how’ performance is executed. For example, investigators record a user’s flow of behavior. However, the question of ‘why’ is often left only indirectly answered (e.g. by think aloud approaches) which can lead to faulty interpretations of data. The cognitive clinical interview can be used to attain direct answers to both how and why users perform tasks as they do.”

“Jakob Nielsen, Bruce Tognazzini, Brenda Laurel, and Don Norman are recognized as four of the finest information designers in the world, and are currently on a ‘world tour,’ dubbed The Main Event, giving talks and conducting seminars in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Down Under. In a wide-ranging discussion on topics from the butterfly ballot, to computer interfaces, to the best and worst aspects of the Web, the foursome — joined by HotWired Style author Jeffrey Veen — brought some much-needed methodology and meaning to the madness.”

“It’s crucial for websites to provide search interfaces that are available, simple, and productive. This article gives basic instructions about how to test your website’s search interface for usability.” By Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne.

“Even before the ‘Love Bug’ computer worm cut a global swath of cyber-destruction, the Pentagon was fighting another software enemy: the Powerpoint electronic chart. It’s choking up the Pentagon computers.”