Thursday, September 21st, 2006
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A digital patina. On this 2002 redesign of the UK’s BBC website, the home page gradualy darkens sections of the site that the user frequents. This creates the equivelent of a ‘worn path’, visually cueing the user with places they frequently visited on the
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We learn more from our failures that we do from our successes. This coincides with the matra in user centered design “fail early and fail often”. Words to live by.
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If you ever need to convert a .swf file into a .avi file, this free program will do it for you.
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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An iteresting article about creating effective wireframes.
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Interesting article by Jared Spool that debunks some of the ‘usability guildelines’ that are have been published. He advocates using existing sites as a model for your own, and using them to evaluate and test user tasks and goals. Usability guidelines see
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
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For $5 a month, this service will backup and maintain all of the data on your hard drive. It also keeps files that you delete for 30 days. Claims “strong encryption for super security”, and it “never slows down your computer or Internet”.
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Interesting breakdown of the current web design trends.
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
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Creating reflections of images using Javascript. Will this be the new ‘Web 2.0′ design style?
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A more usable replacement for the obtrusive dialog box.
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An RSS feed aggregator the eliminates the page metaphor. When you scroll to the bottom of the page, it automatically loads in more post, making it imposible to get to the ‘end’ of the page. I’m not sure if I like this or not.
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