18th
September
2001
“The site has grown too big, too fast, and they hired you to fix it. So where do you start? There are techniques and people who can help you become a better information architect. You’re about to learn the techniques; your users are the people who can help you. Through techniques such as personas, card sorting, and pen and paper testing you stay close to your users and should have a good idea of how to design for them.”
posted in Information architecture | Permalink |
18th
September
2001
“Body gestures have different meanings according to the country in which they are expressed. We shall seek to examine the proper body etiquette in the nations of the world on a per continent basis. We shall begin our review with Europe.”
posted in Language | Permalink |
18th
September
2001
“The only known surviving copy of the first map to bear the name of America, often called ‘the baptismal certificate of the New World,’ has found its way to America from Germany as an acquisition of the Library of Congress.”
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18th
September
2001
“Body gestures have different meanings according to the country in which they are expressed. We shall seek to examine the proper body etiquette in the nations of the world on a per continent basis. We shall begin our review with Europe.”
posted in Travel | Permalink |
18th
September
2001
“The Linotype Font Identifier uses an expert system to enable an untrained user to identify a typeface. With several thousand typefaces in common use, matching an existing sample or selecting an appropriate typeface for a piece of work can involve hours of trial and error, searching through type catalogues. Now with the Linotype Font Identifier, finding a font is easy. The Linotype Font Identifier identifies a typeface by asking a series of simple questions, using an expert system that adapts its questions to find the answer in the shortest possible number of steps. For example it can identify a typical typeface, such as Palatino, in about ten questions. The system is being expanded to incorporate new typefaces as they are added to the Linotype Library.”
posted in Typography | Permalink |
18th
September
2001
“I recently attended a one-day course taught by Edward Tufte, entitled ‘Presenting Data and Information.’ Tufte is a Professor Emeritus at Yale, best-known for his three books on information design, The Visual Display of Quantative Information, Envisioning Information, and Visual Explanations. Although his books mostly predate the Internet phenomenon, his ideas certainly have applications in web site design. As was pointed out on a handout, they can also be used for teaching, news graphics, technical illustrations, displaying financial data, decision-making, animation, and a host of other areas. It appeared that many in the audience were primarily interested in web design, and Tufte spent some time discussing this.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
18th
September
2001
“This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.”
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