“A Collection of Visualizations: Bar Chart, Line Chart, Link, Parallel Coordinates, PieChart, ScatterPlot, Tree, Histogram, Thumbnail, TimeTable, DataSheet, Distortion, Geographical Map, Other Techniques…”

“The U.S. National Geography Standards were published in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 1994… As geography educators, we had a vision in mind as we wrote the standards. We believed in the power and beauty of geography. We wanted to help students to see, understand, and appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments. We see geography in the world that is nearby and around the corner; we see geography in the world at large, the global economy and global environment. The standards capture that vision, but it is people — teachers, parents, community members-who can make this vision come alive.”

“Most software design is lousy. Most software is so bad, in fact, that if it were a bridge, no one in his or her right mind would walk across it. If it were a house, we would be afraid to enter. The only reason we (software engineers) get away with this scam is the general public cannot see inside of software systems. If software design were as visible as a bridge or house, we would be hiding our heads in shame.”

“Over the years, I have seen many questions asked about the use of questionnaires in usability engineering. The list on this page is a compilation of the questions I have heard most often and the answers I gave, should have given, or would have given if I had thought of it first.” Compiled by Jurek Kirakowski, Human Factors Research Group, Cork, Ireland.

“A Collection of Visualizations: Bar Chart, Line Chart, Link, Parallel Coordinates, PieChart, ScatterPlot, Tree, Histogram, Thumbnail, TimeTable, DataSheet, Distortion, Geographical Map, Other Techniques…”

1893-1939: “The United States has always had a visual culture. However, with the advent of modernity (new marketplaces, technologies and social relations as well as the new ideas and aesthetic forms associated with Modernism), an extraordinarily varied and complex visual culture emerged. The surfaces of life (what the poet, Vachel Lindsay, called America’s ‘hieroglyphic civilization’) became so much more important from the late nineteenth-century onwards, and not just for artists.”

“One of our main focuses in this redesign has been renewing or establishing a sense of community; not only for the web, but amongst designers of all fields. The most important way this can be furthered is to open-souce all the concepts, specs, comps, and technologies of this project as it happens.”

“The artless Websites created during the Web’s infancy were of necessity built only with simple HTML tags, and were forced to divide up their functionality and content into a maze (a web?) of separate pages. This made a navigation scheme an unavoidable component of any Website design, and of course, a clear, visually arresting navigation scheme was better than an obscure or hidden one. But many Web designers have incorrectly deduced from this that users want navigation schemes. Actually, they’d be happy if there were no navigation at all.”

“The 1st Annual Web Design Firm Identity Awards [is] an opportunity for web design/development firms to recognize innovative and creative ways they’ve showcased their identities.”

Workflow That Works”Whether you are a designer, a site producer, an in-house webmaster, or a company owner trying to move your web presence to the next level, this book is for you. If you’ve ever lived through a redesign that was fraught with confusion, mixed messages, and

“I like to think of projects as a journey from the abstract to the concrete. Here’s a simple path: Do business strategy / user research