Web Designer's Heaven or what?
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This website has to be the best I've found yet for web design guidelines/advice/research etc. etc. - seems to have regularly updated content and real world (recent and ongoing by the writer himself) research and some really good stuff on how to do web design properly! Such a gem :) http://www.useit.com/[^] Hope other like this - I certainly do, Ed
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This website has to be the best I've found yet for web design guidelines/advice/research etc. etc. - seems to have regularly updated content and real world (recent and ongoing by the writer himself) research and some really good stuff on how to do web design properly! Such a gem :) http://www.useit.com/[^] Hope other like this - I certainly do, Ed
Even though the site is clearly ugly, it looks usable.
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Even though the site is clearly ugly, it looks usable.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von BraunAaah.. yes it is ugly I'll agree but the search feature is very good and it is certainly usable - the site is more for its actual content (I think you kind of have to presume) rather than quality of its own design... :p
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This website has to be the best I've found yet for web design guidelines/advice/research etc. etc. - seems to have regularly updated content and real world (recent and ongoing by the writer himself) research and some really good stuff on how to do web design properly! Such a gem :) http://www.useit.com/[^] Hope other like this - I certainly do, Ed
How odd: just started a new OU course and this is one of their recommended reference sites with some god stuff hidden away. To be fair, it looks bloody awful which is not really a great advert: very 19th century.
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This website has to be the best I've found yet for web design guidelines/advice/research etc. etc. - seems to have regularly updated content and real world (recent and ongoing by the writer himself) research and some really good stuff on how to do web design properly! Such a gem :) http://www.useit.com/[^] Hope other like this - I certainly do, Ed
Ah, Jakob. Very, very usable. As long as "usable" includes "ugly as sin". (I know, I know - people in glass houses... But still :rolleyes: )
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This website has to be the best I've found yet for web design guidelines/advice/research etc. etc. - seems to have regularly updated content and real world (recent and ongoing by the writer himself) research and some really good stuff on how to do web design properly! Such a gem :) http://www.useit.com/[^] Hope other like this - I certainly do, Ed
The success of Jakob Nielsen as "usability" guru has always confounded me ! And, the web-site linked to here must be one of the worst examples of "usability" I can imagine. To be fair, I haven't read any of his books, so this is bias being expressed here. I remember thumbing through one of his very popular books in the late 1990's, that all the webarati and wired-mag crowd seemed to be drooling over, and finding it contained almost no graphic illustrations. But, at least he's not as bad the University of Maryland Professor who, after, he claimed, all kinds of research, came up with the concept that round menus in which moving a clock-face type hand around selected different options were ideal. A bunch of hippie hackers in SF at some computer show I went to circa 2000, who called themselves "the grasshopper group," implemented some of his stuff using chartreuse as the round menu color: true grotesqueness. I think if you want to learn about UI design, there is no better source than the work on the graphic representation of quantitative data, and other aspects of design, than that of Edward Tufte (at Princeton for some time as Professor). Tufte's website is here:[^]. Take a direct look at some of his graphic design, and examples of historically important graphic designs here:[^]. His four "classic" (large format, beautiful) books are here: [^], [^], [^], [^]. Tufte has now developed a very successful career as a sculptor ! best, Bill
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