“The use of Flash/Shockwave content on the web has become very widespread recently, and has led to a certain amount of controversy over its value. There are various usability issues in the use of Flash, as outlined in Jakob Nielsen’s report. Nielsen raises several valid points, but I feel that his assertion that Flash is 99% bad is misguided, assuming that the web consists entirely of corporate sites, and that Flash content is generally gratuitous animation in the form of intros or information delivery systems which could be better made in html.”

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“ONE Media is a cross-media company that is passionate about design. Based in San Francisco and New York, ONE publishes original content for both a service-oriented Web site and a high-gloss bimonthly magazine, as well as for the wireless platform. From the functional to the frivolous, ONE covers design in all of its many facets, bringing its audience the freshest coverage with a style that is all our own.”

“This is a collection of quotations (collected from my larger, more general quotes collection) which I see as having some relevance to the craft of programming and software design. There is a conspicuous dominance of quotes which extol the virtues of simplicity (and the deceptive difficulties involved in achieving it).” The virtues of simplicity apply to more than just software, of course…

“The growth of e-commerce and business-to-business (B2B) applications, customer relationship management, and clickstream analysis has created an unprecedented emphasis on knowing who our users are and designing usable applications. However, backing corporate commitments to usability with a user-driven web application development process is a challenge. Designers find themselves struggling to design new applications from the ground up, defining web UI standards as they go, all the while under pressure to deliver applications to the market in ‘web time.’”

“The purpose of these conferences is to provide a forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable.” This link features the proceedings of the conference, held June 19, 2000.

“The growth of e-commerce and business-to-business (B2B) applications, customer relationship management, and clickstream analysis has created an unprecedented emphasis on knowing who our users are and designing usable applications. However, backing corporate commitments to usability with a user-driven web application development process is a challenge. Designers find themselves struggling to design new applications from the ground up, defining web UI standards as they go, all the while under pressure to deliver applications to the market in ‘web time.’”

“Web developers will benefit from this array of resources and articles written to ensure that all visitors can enjoy a high-quality, professional experience while surfing the web.” Includes HTML, Fonts, CSS, graphics and JavaScript sections.