A dandy study, though probably needs revisiting. Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”
A dandy study, though probably needs revisiting. Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”
Reducing reliance on superstition Then an article which tears that concept up a bit. Thanks to Naomi B. Robbins for the link to that one! Human Factors International–ensuring usability through software ergonomics, human factors and design artistry
How many things can you remember at once? Figured a link to the original (1956) research work which told us we could only hope to remember a phone number. The Magical Number Seven
Sitemaps and Metadata it all started with a conversation on the Information Design Cafe list about numbers of interface elements, the lucky number 7, and navigation directions. The next thing I knew I was goin ghtrough old links on site mapping techniques and ran accross this… Information Technology and Libraries vol.18, no.4 Visualization of Metadata
Interview with world famous author OK, my brother got interviewed by TradeStation Zone Dot Com where he talks about his book Ask Mr. EasyLanguage, emerging developments in trading software and the role of consultants. Read the interview, NOW : Interview with Samuel K. Tennis [FTR, I’m linking to the actual article as their Tradestation.com’s stupid
Interesting notes of Tuftes lecture from earlier this year. I’m attending the same lecture tomorrow so ran across this: Notes from “Presenting Data and Information”
Usability guru shoot-out 5 (ok, 6) usability evangelists drive their ponies to the OK corral and basically agree that pages should load fast. Really not a bad read to summarize the tenants of Andrew Chak, Alan Cooper, Robert Davis and Paul Laroche, Jakob Nielsen & Jared Spool ZDNet: d e v e l o p
Uncle Sam and usability Your tax dollars at work! The U.S. Gov has a team of researchers working on projects you can download and use to determine and map various metrix of a new or existing site. NIST Web Metrics Home Page
Avatarnets moving along… Peter Small has come a long way with his avaters as a group resource/info sharing medium. His concept of a “virtual cafe” is being used to some extent at: Agent control panel His main site give all the background data at: http://www.avatarnets.com