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2004 April 3 • design, resourcesSymbol signs
resource: The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
2004 April 3 • resources, tools, writingReadability.info
website: Analyzes the characteristics of your writing and outputs a variety of readability scores and statistics based on common readability formulas. The underlying tool is the GNU style utility. You can also see readability scores for popular Web sites to help get an idea of how they stack up.
2004 March 21 • design, resources, toolsBrowser Support 2004
article: thecounter.com’s stats are live again. There you will find browser use stats which are aggregated from a widely distributed hit counter script, and presumably a sample a broad cross-section of the population.
2004 March 21 • accessibility, design, resourcesTaskZ.com - Executive Resource for User-Centered Design (UCD)
website: The site is designed for corporate executives interested in developing an understanding of how user-centered development methods can improve the effectiveness of technology-based products and services. User-Centered Design in an Executive-Centered way.
The 4 main section are: - UCD Executive Primer - UCD Feature Articles - UCD Design Data - UCD Viewpointz [credit: GUUUI]
2004 March 21 • resourcesBroadband Tests and Tools
resource: The dslreports.com tools page: get performance, security and utility from your connection.
2004 March 21 • design, resourcesGUIdebook
website: "A website dedicated to preserving and showcasing as many Graphical User Interfaces as possible." [credit: antenna]
2004 March 21 • design, resourcesOpen Source Web Design
website: A community of designers and site owners freely sharing designs as well as design information. If you have come to download free designs, check out the Search Designs page where you will be able to search by color and W3 validation
2004 March 17 • accessibility, resourcesAccessify
website: Accessify.com is an continually expanding collection of articles, tutorials, links and tools for helping Web designers and developers to create more accessible web sites. [credit: Clagnut]
2004 March 14 • books, business, design, resourcesDefensive Design for the Web
book: Defensive Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points. "The folks at 37signals have created an invaluable resource: tons of 'best practice' examples for ensuring that Web users can recover gracefully when things — as they inevitably will — go wrong." Steve Krug, Author, Don't Make Me Think.
2004 February 29 • resources, writingWeb Content Design
website: "What makes Web content effective? You'll find the answer here. Learn the basics of information design, Web writing style, and content maintenance." [credit: InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]
2004 February 29 • resources, usability10 web usability tips
resource: Human Factors International has published a set of 10 web usability tips, as follows:
- Motivate
- User task flow
- Architecture -- it's 80% of usability
- Affordance means obvious
- Replicate
- Usability test along the way
- Know the technology limitations
- Know user tolerances
- Multimedia -- be discriminating
- Use a stats package
[credit: usabilitygarage.com] 2004 February 21 • books, resources
Web Style Guide, 2nd edition
website: It's a book and a website: Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites by Partick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. Despite its modest 176 pages, the book is very comprehensive. It covers topics such as project management, the development process, information architecture, page design, typography, editorial style, and the use of graphics and multimedia. [credit: GUUUI]
2004 February 21 • resources, writingElectronic Text: Writing Tips
resource: For online writers, created by Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University, Electronic Text: Writing Tips puts a lot of good links on one page. Whether you're interested in Webwriting, email, or writing interactive fiction, you'll find something useful here. [credit: Writing for the Web]
2004 February 21 • ia, resourcesInformation Architecture: Creating Order out of Chaos
article: Tracy Reith has published a "quick and dirty" information architecture presentation, which walks through the major issues, techniques and deliverables.
2004 January 25 • code, resources, web standardsCSS for forms
tutorial: Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms is an excellent resource, walking you through a bunch of CSS and Javascript tips and tricks that will make your forms not only more attractive to look at, but also more usable. [credit: redemption through standards]
2004 January 11 • code, resourcesXML.com Graphics Resource Center
website: Lots of articles about “using XML to represent and exchange graphics.” Also includes links to several graphics resources such including software, tutorials and GUIs.
2004 January 11 • code, resourcesAdobe SVG Zone
website: “Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an exciting new XML-based language for Web graphics from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This area was created to give Web developers and designers a taste of developing sites with SVG.” [credit: xBlog]
2004 January 4 • design, resources, tools4096 Color Wheel
tool: A simple color chooser, incorporates auto-columns of web-safe, web-smart and unsafe colors as you hover over a color wheel. [credit: webgraphics]. Also see Web color tools for links to additional color tools.
2004 January 4 • code, process, resourcesFavelets (AKA Bookmarklets)
resource: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents has added a Goodies page with several of his favorite Favelets including: Resize 800, Resize 1024, Beta Validate and Fussy Parsing.
2004 January 4 • design, process, resourcesInfoDesign: Understanding by Design
website: A new site was launched for Information Designers, an ezine for information design. The site strives to be the leading source for information relating to a myriad of fields that are central to information design and often grouped as "experience design," "user experience," or even just "Design" itself. [credit: Digital Web Magazine]