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14th October 2002

VizAbility™: A review, study, and redesign

“VizAbility is an educational CD-ROM designed to address this emerging need. Its goal is to teach visual thinking to all age levels. What follows is a critical review of VizAbility from an educational standpoint… The following user study attempts to better understand what users perceive themselves to have learned after interacting with VizAbility.”

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14th October 2002

An interview with Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff on User-Centered Design

“There is a tremendous amount of sheer creativity involved in solving problems. The process itself doesn’t create solutions. It is only there to help structure the flow of work to ensure that important issues are addressed in an order that helps save time, energy, money, and work.”

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14th October 2002

VizAbility™: A review, study, and redesign

“VizAbility is an educational CD-ROM designed to address this emerging need. Its goal is to teach visual thinking to all age levels. What follows is a critical review of VizAbility from an educational standpoint… The following user study attempts to better understand what users perceive themselves to have learned after interacting with VizAbility.”

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14th October 2002

AT&T Labs: Information Visualization Research

“Information visualization is an emerging scientific discipline. Advances in computer graphics, human-computer interfaces, databases and networks have created a critical need for automatically-generated displays of complex, semi-structured information. Many examples arise in domains ranging from Internet engineering to the exploration of biological databases.”

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14th October 2002

An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News

“One of the Web’s oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: That standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we’ve come to expect from Web pages. The brains and primary driving force behind this compelling new design is Douglas Bowman, Network Design Manager for Terra Lycos, who graciously agreed to an interview and in the process shed a lot of light on what goes into a standards-based redesign.”

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