Category: Usability
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Episode 7: Jared Spool
Episode 7 of The Big Web Show is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. In this most excellent episode, co-host Dan Benjamin and I talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing…
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Fink on Web Fonts
In Issue 307 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Web Fonts at the Crossing by Richard Fink Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink…
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Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks
Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…
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Remote User Testing
User research doesn’t have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb. A List Apart: Articles: Quick…
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AEA Minneapolis
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…
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A List Apart No. 304
Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…
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Design Lessons from iPad
It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…
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An Event Apart Seattle
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My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit
GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…
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Fold, Spindle
Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a…
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A List Apart 300
Issue 300 of A List Apart for people who make websites solves password-related usability problems with a dash of JavaScript, and employs content strategy to help your site do the right thing at the right…
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Myths and Warnings
Learn what usability testing is and isn’t good for; discover the five warning signs of a bad client relationship (and what to do about them).
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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Real type, real drag
@font-face and browser performance: the bad news.
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Chicago Sells Out
An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.