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22nd October 2003

Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

“How visual simplicity can harm usability: Usability is based on principles such as ‘Less is more’ and ‘Keep it simple, stupid.’ But there is more to simplicity than meets the eye. By reducing visual complexity at the cost of structural simplicity, you will give your users a hard time understanding and navigating the content of a web site.”

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22nd October 2003

Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

“How visual simplicity can harm usability: Usability is based on principles such as ‘Less is more’ and ‘Keep it simple, stupid.’ But there is more to simplicity than meets the eye. By reducing visual complexity at the cost of structural simplicity, you will give your users a hard time understanding and navigating the content of a web site.”

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22nd October 2003

Read Regular

“There has been growing innovation to combat dyslexia, especially for children, in the form of computer software. However, relatively little design research has been done in the area of typography and type design that might support dyslexics. Read Regular is a typeface designed specifically to help people with dyslexia read and write more effectively. Read Regular aims at preventing a neglect of dyslexia, creating a more confident feeling regarding the problems that occur with dyslexia.”

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22nd October 2003

Notes on Photoshop Album

“I was going to start this piece with ‘if you’re having problems managing your digital pictures, then you should check out Adobe Photoshop Album.’ But instead, we’ll try this on for size: if you just have a digital camera, or happen to be interested in seeing how well a consumer software application can handle multifaceted categorization and metadata management, then you must check Adobe Photoshop Album.”

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22nd October 2003

Notes on Photoshop Album

“I was going to start this piece with ‘if you’re having problems managing your digital pictures, then you should check out Adobe Photoshop Album.’ But instead, we’ll try this on for size: if you just have a digital camera, or happen to be interested in seeing how well a consumer software application can handle multifaceted categorization and metadata management, then you must check Adobe Photoshop Album.”

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22nd October 2003

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

“This text circulated on the internet in September 2003… I’ve written this page, to try to explain the science behind this meme. There are elements of truth in this, but also some things which scientists studying the psychology of language (psycholinguists) know to be incorrect. I’m going to break down the meme, one line at a time to illustrate these points…” See original xBlog post of 17 Sep 2003.

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22nd October 2003

Everything in Moderation

“I can now finally welcome you all to Everything in Moderation — a new weblog designed to collect links and commentary on both technical and social ways of managing online communities and user-generated content.”

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22nd October 2003

Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

“How visual simplicity can harm usability: Usability is based on principles such as ‘Less is more’ and ‘Keep it simple, stupid.’ But there is more to simplicity than meets the eye. By reducing visual complexity at the cost of structural simplicity, you will give your users a hard time understanding and navigating the content of a web site.”

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22nd October 2003

Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

“How visual simplicity can harm usability: Usability is based on principles such as ‘Less is more’ and ‘Keep it simple, stupid.’ But there is more to simplicity than meets the eye. By reducing visual complexity at the cost of structural simplicity, you will give your users a hard time understanding and navigating the content of a web site.”

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