Category: Usability
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Let the Users Do It
Retrieve user-generated content and embrace user feedback to enhance your designs—just like magic.
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Shorten this
Roll your own mini-URLs.
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.net interview
“There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS.”
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.
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“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book
“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.
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Tiny URL, Big Trouble
Joshua Schachter explains.
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More Zeldman Fun From BigThink
Tune in to the Zeldman interview channel at BigThink.
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ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile
How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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Real type on the web?
A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C.
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!
In Issue No. 267 of A LIST APART, For People Who make Websites, Mental Models author Indi Young tells how to get out of your own way and hear what your users are telling you…
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Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco
Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.
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Zing
The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.
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Customer support on the march
You know that new thing where you call customer support and a robot tells you that there’s no need to wait; just leave your phone number and you’ll be called back in three minutes? So…
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UX Zeitgeist (beta)
A colleague who is interested in learning more about user experience (UX) design, information architecture, and usability, asked what sites he should visit. I suggested he check the UX Zeitgeist (beta) section of Rosenfeld Media.…