links for 2006-01-28
Saturday, January 28th, 2006-
Case studies of the IA process
Archive for January, 2006
links for 2006-01-21
Saturday, January 21st, 2006-
Excellent Ajax based Typo theme
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Another theme for Typo
links for 2006-01-20
Friday, January 20th, 2006-
UX Magazine was created to deliver a central place to discuss the critical disciplines that all enhance user experience.
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Excellent colaboration tool. My web site is now fully compatible
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An ajax way to show images on your site
links for 2006-01-19
Thursday, January 19th, 2006-
FeedXS.com allows you to create one or more personal or business feeds
links for 2006-01-17
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006-
At GUUUI, you’ll find weekly postings and quarterly articles about interaction design, information architecture, usability, visual design and the like
Firefox tunning (part I)
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Firefox tunning
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
This is part 1 of a 3 parts article on how to optimize your Firefox browser for a better browsing experience. Topics that will be covered:
- General Customization
- Extensions and themes
- Wishlist and Conclusions
At the end your browser might be looking like the above screenshot. Don’t worry it won’t be so crowded, not all the features being needed all the time to be open.
Target audience:
- Power users
- Bloggers
General Customization
A few steps to tune your firefox can be accomplished without additional installs.
- Homepage. For a long time I disliked the idea of having a homepage opened when my browser opens. Too many commercials and redundant information. With the AJAX desktop trends luckily we have a few choices:
- -Netvibes (recommended) ->Official Blog || Techcrunch review
- Tabbed navigation. One of the core functions of Firefox (first implemented by Opera) is the tabbed navigation. Unfortunately this option is highly overlooked by newbies and is not facilitated by the default installation. To activate this do the following:
- - Go to Tools->Options->Tabs
- - Check:
- Open links from other applications in: A new tab in the most recent window
- Force links that open new windows to open in: A new tab (note: this is useful for the sites that use for external links target _blank BUT it might be not so pleasant for requested pop-ups. If you use regularly sites that use requested pop ups then do not use this feature but rather click on the external links with middle mouse button. That will open external links in new tabs and requested pop-ups as usual)
- Manual optimization. By typing about:config in your URL field you will get a list of Firefox options to customize. This subject is very well covered on the following articles:
- GUI. One of the biggest advantages of Firefox is the fact that allows a great flexibility for the GUI. To gain more working space do the following.
- - Right click anywhere on a blank space in the area of URL box and you will get a “Customize” option.
- - First of all set your icons to small
- - Add and remove icons (through drag and drop) as needed. I currently have only the following buttons: Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Homepage.
- - Move your remaining icons from the Navigation Toolbar near the File menu.
Now you have completed the first part of your Firefox optimization. You can familiarize now with the keyboard shortcuts for better productivity
links for 2006-01-13
Friday, January 13th, 2006-
A place for things I find interesting or have to say related to usability, web design, information architecture and user experience practices
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“Userati - A group of people concerned with issues relating to software and users, who are known to their peers.”
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This dissertation introduces an approach to understanding user experience that departs from the more traditional user or product centric approaches.
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This post outlines how to connect your Visio diagram to a database to reduce manual entry of data and improve consistency.
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At GUUUI, you’ll find weekly postings and quarterly articles about interaction design, information architecture, usability, visual design and the like.
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when one of the world’s first public libraries called in building architects to renovate their historic facilities, they also called in information architects from MAYA Design to renovate their information space
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Insights, ideas, musings, observations, publications, and thoughts on the world and design
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Langemarks Cafe is Gunnar Langemark’s personal professional website.
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Your daily dose of information, ideas, research, opinions, and lessons learned about user interface design (UID), user centered design (UCD), usability testing & research, task analysis, card sorting, usability heuristics, information architecture (IA), w
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Finally version 1.5 is out
First signs of Yahoo! on del.icio.us
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Today I noticed the first sign of Yahoo’s aquisition of del.icio.us. When using the del.icio.us bookmarklet to bookmark a site a new pre filled pop-up opens for My Web 2.0. I like this feature because allows me to share good content within my Yahoo network BUT I bet that the negative response to this will be overwhelming because:
- not all del.icio.us users have Yahoo accounts
- users might feel forced to do this
- there is no way to disable this
So…how much till a new del.icio.us suicide group will appear? A week? Put on your bets
After this kind of behaviour, it’s getting more and more clear, that after the aquisition of an independent leader of a certain niche by a major company the second place will see a wave of new users
links for 2006-01-12
Thursday, January 12th, 2006links for 2006-01-11
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006-
You can pretend to be Googlebot to acess members only areas on some sites…those that show in SERPs but ask you to pay for a registration
