Tag: Design

Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect Web page

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[These are my notes from Steve Krug’s talk at the Jan. 16 UPA Boston meeting.]
“Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect Web page.”
(Wikipedia reference)

There are some things that just work

but don’t get done very often
even in the hands of good designers

Two things that make a perfect Web page:

Effective “You are […]

UI12: Site Seeing

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Today was the first day of the UI12 conference and I had the pleasure of attending Luke Wroblewski’s one-day course called Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design (which is, incidentally, also the name of his book). Here are some random notes I took at the session:

The goal of […]

Everything is an argument

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One of the things I remember best from my writing classes in college was the premise that everything is an argument. No matter what you are writing or designing, you are making an argument of some sort. For instance, if you’re designing a travel website, you’re making the argument […]

Alarm clocks and usability

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We use them every day. In fact, we rely on them. Just about every bedroom comes equipped with one. Without it, I wouldn’t know what time it was when I wake up in the middle of the night and I certainly wouldn’t be able to wake up at […]

Let there be light and dog ears

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As I was skimming through the online book 12 Showbusiness Tools for Your Business: A Theatrical Approach to Experience Design, the chapter called “Let there be light” (p. 13) caught my attention for obvious reasons.
It is hard to over-emphasise the importance of light in experience design. There is […]

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