9th
April
2001
“On the list of overused words in design circles, ‘art collective’ has an honored place. Usually, it refers to little more than a design firm that doesn’t want to call itself a design firm. With Tomato, though, ‘art collective’ is an act of necessity. Few groups have rivaled its range of books, films, and commercials. Few have produced an in-house band as successful as Underworld. Or absorbed an interactive unit like Antirom. Sure, they’re not supermen, but rarely has one little group in London done so many different things.”
posted in Graphic design | Permalink |
9th
April
2001
“JavaScript. Spawned in 1995 by the need to make Netscape Navigator’s newly added support for Java applets more accessible to non-Java programmers and web designers, a powerful scripting language too often described as ’simple.’”
posted in Scripts (JS/PHP/etc) | Permalink |
9th
April
2001
“I was asked a very interesting question the other day. ‘Why is usability so hard? Isn’t it just common sense?’ This is a great question, and one that took me a long time to be able to answer. My difficulty was not because usability is actually easy, but because it can be hard to approach that question properly. The answer is complex and detailed, but like all good things, the basic idea behind it can be explained simply…”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
9th
April
2001
This was our inspiration for the sitemap at the bottom of the XPLANE site. We will let you know how it’s working — initial testing says people use it a lot. Thanks, Peter! “I added a sitemap at the bottom of every page on a medium size website of mine, and I tracked all the clicks on the navigation of that website. This way I could see which navigation features were being used how often. I used the info to decide where to put which navigation features… The big surprise here is that the sitemap on every page is hugely popular! I had expected it to be at something like 10 to 15%, but it turns out to be responsible for over 60% of all navigation being done on this site.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
