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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››
Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | content | design | development | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Lost Remote tipped me off to a cool and useful design pattern library from the Yahoo! gang. Love that semitransparent drag-and-drop action in My Yahoo!? This site shows how it's done, with an animated example. Sweet!... ›››
Category: Innovation | Technology | design | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
I don't know whether dedicated e-reader devices -- such as the one Microsoft and The New York Times showed off, or the first-generation RCA-branded ones I used to work with in 2000 -- will ever achieve widespread consumer adoption.... ›››
Category: Media | Newspapers | Technology | design | e-newsletter | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
The Techdirt gang notes a problem with all those page views claimed by MySpace, the social network juggernaut. Many appear to be low-value by-products, whether on purpose or not, of the site's clunky user interface. Techdirt points to an... ›››
Category: Advertising | Media | design | interactivity | marketing | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Jakob Nielsen reports findings of new Eyetrack research: We found that users' main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components:... ›››
Category: design | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Spotted on the wide world of the Web: Jared Spool saw something in the recent NYTimes.com redesign that I didn't think about when I reviewed it: major pages are longer, vertically, and require more scrolling. Spool's gang of usability... ›››
Category: Media | Newspapers | design | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
I held off commenting on the redesign of NYTimes.com for an extra day. At first glance early Monday, things such as headline links that were a notch too small, wildly uneven vertical spacing and resulting big chunks of dead... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | design | e-newsletter | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
The SitePoint gang comes back with another great tutorial (I liked their Ajax primer last year, too): Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch. SitePoint's smart about free-sample marketing. This tutorial comes from a book the company has published on... ›››
Category: Technology | design | development | security | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Jared Spool makes the case for using interview-based tasks to improve the likelihood of helpful results from Web site user tests. In interview-based tasks, the participants interested are discovered, not assigned. Unlike scavenger-hunt tasks, the test's facilitator and participant... ›››
Category: content | design | interactivity | online culture | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Here's a cool idea from Jensen Harris for times you want to put Web product concepts in front of users in a more robust format than a piece of paper or static storyboard screen. Harris explains how to use... ›››
Category: Innovation | Technology | design | interactivity | usability
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