5th
July
2004
“How should we represent the distinction between visited and unvisited links within our designs? Recently, a number of industry writers have sought to explode suggested guidelines and reassure us that it’s fine to experiment, so long as we consider the end user. I consulted several established commentators, namely Andy Clarke, Jason Santa Maria, Mike Davidson, D. Keith Robinson, Cameron Moll, Derek Featherstone and Simon Willison in an attempt to consolidate these views, and reflect the broad range of methods in use today.”
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5th
July
2004
“Light from different light sources add together to illuminate objects in a scene. We can use this super-position principle to modify the lighting of a scene after it has been photographed. We can also simulate negative light sources.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)
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5th
July
2004
“Everyone involved with digital imaging has heard about Genuine Fractals. This utility claimed to do a better job interpolating digital images than Photoshop’s bicubic engine. Now I would like to introduce a new utility. It’s called SI.”
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5th
July
2004
“Online journalism needs better design for active readers rather than passive consumers. The author’s research indicates that Web content can be made far more meaningful and useful through better use of interactivity, or ‘productive interaction.’”
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5th
July
2004
“A colleague recently told me that one of the biggest challenges that she and other in-house information architects face is earning management’s trust. Initially this shocked me, but when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. There are the standard reasons–staff may be the legacy of a previous manager, there may be personality issues, whatever. But information architects also face some unique challenges: we are a newish and oddly-named profession, lacking in certification or other associated academic pedigrees, assigned to the wrong departments and working on highly abstract tasks that don’t translate into clear return on investment. What can we do about it?”
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