“Good usability is critical to the success of a website. Traditional usability engineering techniques can be difficult to apply to web usability evaluation because the users are heterogeneous and geographically dispersed. Also, website software development cycles demand quick turnaround. The objective of the NIST Web Metrics Testbed is to explore the feasibility of a range of tools and techniques that support rapid, remote, and automated testing and evaluation of website usability.”

“Any Fortune 1000 firm suffers from an embarrassment of riches in its employees’ knowledge. What’s most embarrassing is how seldom that collective wisdom is brought to any given project. Lotus Development’s Discovery Server, scheduled to ship by May, targets that very problem. Discovery’s biggest promise is not that it can dredge up an obsolete document written by a long-departed corporate drone, but that it can connect you with the people in your company who are most likely to help you — no matter where in the world they work.”

“A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities… The Semantic Web will enable machines to COMPREHEND semantic documents and data, not human speech and writings.” By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.

“A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities… The Semantic Web will enable machines to COMPREHEND semantic documents and data, not human speech and writings.” By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.

“Designer’s Dilemma: To Compute or Not to Compute? Milton Glaser does not like the computer. On some level, it’s understandable for Glaser to feel this way, since he did most of his work before the digital revolution was even a science fiction fantasy. So what if he doesn’t like the computer? Why should designers care about what Milton Glaser thinks? Because Milton Glaser’s name should be as familiar to graphic designers as Norman Mailer’s is to writers.”

“A resource for web developers to create pages with dither-free backgrounds and images. Explains the 216-colour palette, and includes test pages to help choose background and text colours. The resource also includes tips for colour use with example web pages showing pitfalls as well as a suggested mark-up style.”

“brandchannel.com is committed to providing an interactive global perspective on important issues that are affecting brands now and in the future. We also offer a cadre of tools and information including global listings for careers, courses and conferences, as well as links to other valuable industry resources.”

“In the summer of Y2K, Maira Kalman teamed up with Creative Time and the New Museum to present TIBOR IN ORBIT, a public art project that posthumously honored designer Tibor Kalman. Tibor Kalman had an unrealized dream to create an ‘un-advertising’ campaign to question social and economic equality. From 5/1 to 6/15/Y2K, Tiborisms were featured on 1 million Parmalat/Sunnydale non-fat milk cartons in supermarkets in the New York metropolitan area and every hour at 59 minutes past the hour on the NBC Astrovision video billboard in Times Square. Inspired by Tibor and Maira Kalman, undesign created a little experiment* called UNDESIGN IN ORBIT. We hacked some PERL and called in the resources of some of our friends to give you the ability to create your own UNAD. Pick a picture, utter some appropriate un-slogan, and your un-banner will be created.”