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Signposts
Navigating unfamiliar information on the web requires aids. These aids don’t have an agenda or bias the way advertising does. Instead, navigational aids help people find the right path based on their...
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When asked about the success of his large company, Herb Kelleher said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” Process and plans are attempts to control the future by studying the past....
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Head or foot
Web sites use many types of scripts, including those for making pages interactive and those that track how often a page is visited. While these scripts may be necessary, they can also cause websites to...
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The notion that we must organize a website into pages is a shortsighted argument at best. At worst, it’s conventional. Just as journalism must be printed in newspapers, videos can only be viewed when...
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Larger targets are easier to hit. How to make links larger is no less difficult, if we’re willing to change the nature of a link. Easy navigation is a Big Deal in mobile design. While mouse cursors,...
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Merge
Designing websites for smartphones is easy. Retrofitting websites, however, is a pain. It’s surprising how ineffective traditional site maps are at organizing information. We can’t keep thinking this...
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Foresight
At the same I was reading emerging thoughts on atoms vs. bits, I was also reading about spacer gifs and entry tunnels. Looking back it’s not surprising that my understanding of the web was way off the...
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