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2006 February 19 • design, resourcesDesign Pattern Library
website: Yahoo! opens their Design Pattern Library. A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.
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Web Design from Scratch
website: A great resource that covers the fundamentals of web design. If you like what you see there, you may also want to check out Digital Web Magazine's area on the Basics of web design.
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Personas
links: Articles, tutorials, examples and templates.
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Patterns in Web Design
website:
WebPatterns.org is a place to discuss, document and collaborate on patterns for web design and development. Also see Martijn van Welie's Patterns in Ineraction Design.
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Web Developer's Handbook
website: If you ever needed a site that contained all the best resources for web developers then look no further than the Web Developer's Handbook. The list is huge and the font is tiny.
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Interaction Design Association
organization: The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional organization. Their focus is ‘promoting both the field of interaction design and the interests of an international community of practitioners, managers, educators, and students of interaction design’.
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Seven Steps to Better Presentations
article: Notes for someone about to give their first public presentation.
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Tools for Information Architects
resource: The Information Architecture Institute has a nice section full of tools for Information Architects and Interaction Designers.
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Idea Generation Methods
resource: This website lists and explains every idea generation method they have encountered over the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; including books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues.
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10 Best Resources for CSS
reference: An increasing number of websites are employing CSS and an increasing number of resources are talking about how great CSS is. If you haven't jumped on the CSS bandwagon, you may want to consider doing so now.
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How to Find a Great Domain Name
article: Good domain names are out there, but they can be hard to find. Here are some tools to help you in your search.
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Cross Browser Testing
article: A good list of resources for cross browser testing and debugging.
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Stock Photography
link list: Looking for that perfect photo for your website? Nice list of Stock Photography websites.
2005 May 30 • resourcesWeb-Dev-Bookmarks
bookmarks: A huge compilation of essential bookmarks for web professionals.
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CSS Cheat Sheet
cheat sheet: A quick reference guide for CSS, listing selector syntax, properties, units and other useful bits of information.
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When Things Go Wrong
whitepaper: Guidelines for helping people when things go wrong, lists 20 rules for improving contingency design - design for when things go wrong.
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CSS Style Sheet Resources
links: A big list of CSS resources in useful categories.
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Bookmarks for web developers
links: A list of useful web design, web-programming tools and useful web-sites.
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Encyclopedia of Interaction Design
encyclopedia: An open-content, peer-reviewed encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields.
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Usability Glossary
glossary: Usability First has a very nice online dictionary, where you can find short and concise definitions of - at present - 1032 terms used in the usability community.