Tag: Usability
Make it work!
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Please and thank you
An Event Apart thanks its attendees, speakers, and sponsors for a great 2007, and announces dates and locations for 2008.
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Testing designs for color-blindness
Even experienced designers can find it hard to predict how their work willappear to people with various kinds of color-blindness. Two tools can help.
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To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice.
iPhone and iPod classic compared.
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An Event Apart savings end tomorrow
$100 savings on our final Event Apart conference of the year end Saturday, September 15. If you’re planning to attend An Event Apart San Francisco, reserve your seat before the price goes up.
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Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.
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San Francisco, here you come
I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying….
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What Apple copied from Microsoft
Apple has learned the marketing psychology lesson that Microsoft got first. For many consumers, convenience is of greater value than choice. A platform built of parts that work together seamlessly beats a self-curated collection of…
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ALA 241: better UI, scriptless trick ponies, and the deathly hallows
Unlearn a web interface design convention that causes users grief, and learn how to create a scrolling, fixed/liquid hybrid layout without using JavaScript (not that there’s anything wrong with it).
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Let there be web divisions
Almost no one who makes websites works in their company or organization’s web division—because almost no company or organization has a web division. That void on the org chart is one reason we have so…
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“Maybe” is one option too many
“Maybe” is one option too many. As a best practice, we should dispense with it, just as we should replace five-star rating systems with four-star ones.
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Eight points for better e-mail relationships
Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…
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E-mail is not a platform for design
ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.
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An Event Apart Chicago 2007
Tickets are now available for An Event Apart Chicago—two days of web standards, best practices, and creative inspiration from Dan Cederholm, Louis Rosenfeld, Liz Danzico, Jeremy Keith, Jim Coudal, Luke Wroblewski, Derek Featherstone, and Jason…
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The heartbreak of technology
Why this tech support call took an hour is a mystery. Why it is called “support” is a more profound one.
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Where are the Women? Where are the Links?
R/GA have created unforgettable movie magic. And unusable websites.