Posts Tagged “ux”

Fido.ca’s usability sin

by Luke Rodgers on September 19, 2008

There are few things that universally qualify as web design FAILs. The esteemed Jakob Nielsen has a list of Top-10 Web Design Mistakes from 1999 which, in web years, is a long time. Long enough that you think people would (…)

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ThoughtWorks in Toronto: Forging a new alliance between business and IT

by Luke Rodgers on September 18, 2008

I attended this morning’s Toronto edition of ThoughtWorks‘ new Quarterly Technology Briefing, on the subject of Forging a New Alliance: Cutting-edge software to power the Business/IT relationship. I was a bit turned off by the title, which sounds kind of (…)

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Some reflections on Aurora, browser of the future

by Luke Rodgers on August 24, 2008

Let me say first that this is some amazing conceptual work. Coming up with something that is genuinely new (or, depending on your metaphysics, at least seems so) is difficult work. It is rare that something comes along in the (…)

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Leveraging the shape of information

by Luke Rodgers on August 14, 2008

Came across a good presentation from 2004 by Victor Lombardi, called Incorporating Navigation Research into Design Method (PDF) that discusses (among other things) the “native shape” of information, and how to leverage it in design.
Three images, drawn from research by (…)

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Visualizations of information architecture / user experience

by Luke Rodgers on August 11, 2008

It seems like the meaning of terms like “information architecture” (IA) and “user experience” (UX) have been contested since their introduction, with the result that web design neophytes intrigued by the fancy titles “information architect” or “user experience designer” and (…)

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