Five questions every home page should answer: “We’ve noticed a disturbing trend in home page design — information overload. Web designers and developers seem to have resolved the ‘to click or to scroll?’ controversy by loading everything onto the home page. ‘More and more and more is better,’ they seem to be saying.”
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“Environmentalists often encourage participation in their cause by saying that you shouldn’t feel the need to heal the planet all at once, all by yourself; if every person picked up just one piece of trash every day, think about what a clean, beautiful world we’d live in. The Internet needs that same spirit: If every Website fixed just one frustrating usability problem each day, think what a beautiful World Wide Web we’d live in.”
“Gave this presentation to undergraduate information systems management students at University College London today. I actually wrote it for the journalism students at Cardiff University, where I’m presenting it next week — so it’s pretty wide ranging and general, but it goes over the development process of BBC News in detail, plus some other stuff as an intro to user-centred design principles. Oh… btw, it’s 6.3 meg… sorry!” Note: Powerpoint.
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“If absolute control of the visual interface is your most important goal, use pixels in your Style Sheet. Pixels work the same way on all platforms and all ‘CSS-capable’ browsers (even the old, cruddy ones). Platforms make no difference. Browser versions make no difference. User preference settings make no difference. More complex methods no longer work and may cause harm.”
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