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2 Aug 2006Love this map: A map of what people around the U.S. call a soft drink
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2 Aug 2006There is an exciting technical standard called "microformats" which is evolving and offers interesting ways for organizations to more widely disseminate their content across the web and to more efficiently aggregate content from others across the web. I think there are some very powerful ways that this can benefit issues-focused organizations - enabling closer coordination between people within a sector, more rapid dissemination...
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31 Jul 2006Chris just discovered this: Our Personas that we developed for the Economic Research Service of the USDA have made an appearance as the main example on Usability.gov's page on Personas. It looks like Matthew Johnson have taken on a life of his own.
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31 Jul 2006IE7 Migration Why CSS Bugs Me thoughts from Dvorak The MySpace Problem When it comes to some of the web's most popular sites - is their success because of or in spite of ugly design? Top 10 best designed blogs How to ruin a web design bookdiva.net I just liked this design
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31 Jul 2006According to Human Factors International, usability testing is changing... and staying the same. They raise some very important issues about where Usability Testing is heading. Here are some highlights of their latest findings: Does the usability engineer even need to be there? You can get valid information from automated testing. You can use it for major benchmarking measures, but don't expect to find all the critical usability issues. Does it matter if you test with lo-fidelity or hi-...
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20 Jul 2006Just browsing through Amazon.com lately, I realized they have added a couple of new features to their product pages. Take the example of Xbox 360 Platinum Console Includes 20GB Hard Drive product page. Now users can edit their own version of the product information using ProductWiki (scroll down to the bottom). Users can also tag a product using Tag this product feature. Not quite sure how useful this feature will be since it is not currently integrated with their general search and you...
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17 Jul 2006If you're reading this, it more than likely means you're rather intelligent. Which would also mean that you're not using Internet Explorer. If so... then this is for you. The following is a list of Firefox extensions that I frequently use. Some just make browsing easier in general... but many make graphic design, coding and getting things to work in IE much easier. In particular, the first two are must-haves. Feel free to mention your own useful extensions or add-ons in the comments...
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14 Jul 2006Which country would you want to visit? The power of good IA, design and photography... Visit Britain New Zealand Visit USA
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14 Jul 2006The pharmaceutical company Glaxo is running a web site with information about dieting and weight loss - but not about its own products - as a way to position itself on the issue, learn about the audiences and gather customer information. Even though Glaxo has a new over-the-counter diet pill called Alli pending FDA approval, the Questioneverything.com site does not even mention Alli on its site (or so I see on a Google search). For policy-focused organizations, it's a nice example of "...
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13 Jul 2006This book is getting some good buzz. Free chapter download too.
