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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Library Usability Links 3/25/09

25-Mar-09

Great tongue-in-cheek advice from Boagworld: 10 things a designer would never tell you
TechCrunch advises FaceBook to not give in to users
Slate agrees with TechCrunch, saying users will get over it
Smashing Magazine talks best practices with regard to breadcrumbs
UXBooth has an intriguing beginners guide to information architecture
Usability Counts reminds everybody to ask for referrals
Library Clips talks [...]

Nielsen All In for Mega Drop-Downs

23-Mar-09

This surprises me a bit because drop-downs have always appeared to cause more trouble than they are worth. Nielsen is saying that drop-downs with the following characteristics perform well

JHOVE and Reconstructibility

23-Mar-09

Garry McGath has an interesting post up over at File Formats Blog arguing for a little wiggle room within file format preservation:

Library Usability Links 3/16/09

16-Mar-09

A discussion on persona skepticism over at IXDA
Smashing Magazine has a list of 70 Ajax & Javascript techniques
Jayson Online has a checklist of 10 web app usability guidelines

Library Usability Links 3/7/09

07-Mar-09

Noupe has a fun list of 40 useful & handy designer’s web services & tools. A lot of these I’ve never seen, but will be using.
Found in the previous link, this Color Scheme Designer is great.
A wiki-based pattern library for Mobile UX Design
Another useful list of web design tools and services
Dave Cronin has an [...]