20th
May
2004
“some tenets of simplicity have emerged: 1. Heed cultural patterns. The iPod, for instance, succeeded not just because of its sleek form, but because, in conjunction with iTunes, it solved so many of the problems of buying and storing music. 2. Be transparent. People like to have a mental model of how things work. 3. Edit. Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones, the Newton MessagePad and the Palm Pilot being prime examples. 4. Prototype. Push beyond proof-of-technology demos and build prototypes that people can interact with.”
posted in Industrial design | Permalink |
20th
May
2004
“A style guide helps you quickly and cost-effectively publish content that is of a consistent quality. It is particularly important when there are lots of editors and authors involved in the publishing process. A good style guide takes a lot of time and effort to create. Unless its implementation is policed, it will not achieve its objectives.”
posted in Web development | Permalink |
20th
May
2004
“Conversions and information about file formats.”
posted in Software/Hardware | Permalink |
20th
May
2004
Lou Rosenfeld: “I was poking around, Googling ‘information discovery,’ and stumbled on a simple but really useful diagram created by someone named Keith Stanger. Who happens to be a librarian (same background as me). Who works at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti (same county as me). Who lists Bloug on his blogroll. Very cool. Gotta love the serendipity of the Internet.”
posted in Learning | Permalink |
20th
May
2004
“Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User experience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, the biggest problem on today’s web sites and intranets is findability… findability.org is a collection of links related to findability and the design of findable objects.” By Peter Morville
posted in Searching | Permalink |
20th
May
2004
“Iíve seen umpteen diagrams showing CSS beginners how padding, border and margin work together, but not the order in which elements such as background colour and image are stacked. To try and fill this hole, Iíve drawn a diagram. Iím not sure if this is of any use at all, but here it is anyway ó the 3D CSS Box Model.”
posted in CSS | Permalink |
