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| Webword Statistics - Recent Comments (Comments added for week ending Sun 01 Jun 2003) | View Other Weeks |
| Architecture students offer unique views of the humble chair | Fri 30 May |
| Mullick points out that because present ideas about seating evolved in the past, understanding todays seating designs requires appreciation of cultural history—both old and new. |
| Fri 30 May 12:46 | Ron Zeno | When you don't understand the more complicated human attributes, settle for aesthetics. |
| Sat 31 May 10:03 | Anonymous | What the hell do architecture students know about art? Let's look at architecture's biggest, most pervasive projects... big box stores. I really consider Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Costco, and every other big box store (how many are built every day in America?) to be the pinnacle of attractive design. Uh huh. Architecture today is defined by totally uninteresting, boring design. It's all usability and cost effectiveness, no human interest. When you do seek out an innovative piece of furniture like a chair, you're buying from an artist craftsman, not some dingy architect. |
| Multiple Mistakes Drown Interface | Thu 29 May |
| (Ask Tog) There’s not a Start button and a Reset button. There’s just one button: Start/Reset. People have been loading the dishwasher, choosing the cycle, then hitting start. This is an ultra-quiet model. They hear nothing. They think they’ve failed to hit the Start button squarely and hit it again. But they’re not hitting the Start button at that point, they’re hitting the Reset button. (Comments: Thanks Frank.) |
| Fri 30 May 06:38 | Anonymous | Hmmm....lack of sonic feedback. Sonic interface issues. |
| Fri 30 May 07:54 | Mac | Deja Vu |
| Fri 30 May 09:15 | Frank Lynch | I plead ignorance to its earlier incarnation at webword. But maybe we could turn this into a game, where we get a point for every time we get John to post a duplicate. All re-posts within three months of their prior post get a point; those which are more stale get a half-point. Getting him to double repost should be worth an additional point on top of the above. Could be fun! |
| Fri 30 May 10:00 | Mac | I'm interested in the different selections for the quote from the article. |
| Getting Your (Intended) Vote to Count | Thu 29 May |
| As the announcements for 2004 candidacy become more frequent, it may be time to revisit the challenges of usability within the voting process. |
| Fri 30 May 06:41 | Anonymous | Usability issue: None of The Above. Should None Of The Above win, all candidates are purged from selection and pre chosen alternates run. The issue being voter apathy. |
| Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites | Thu 29 May |
| These users are just as impatient as sighted users. They want to get the information they need as quickly as possible. That means that they do not listen to every word on the page - just as sighted users dont read every word. They scan with their ears just as sighted users scan with their eyes. |
| Thu 29 May 11:05 | tom smith | Recently I was observing someone using the JAWS screen reader browser to book a channel island holiday. He quickly located the search box which contained the text 'enter text here'. There was some JavaScript code to remove the text on entry, but of course JavaScript doesn't work with JAWS so when he hit the search button what he actually searched for (unbeknownst to him) was 'jerseyenter text here', which return a load of unrelated and useless results. |
| Charles Reeves | Wed 28 May |
| ? (via Anil) |
| Wed 28 May 09:40 | Anonymous | No. This guy isn't even a chef. Why would I hire him for my restaurant? |
| Wed 28 May 10:05 | daniel szuc | Could not find the button to get to the good part which is his CV. |
| Wed 28 May 18:19 | John | ::urk:: I think I'm gonna be sick. |
| Why is validation so neglected? | Sun 25 May |
| To support my point… Would you buy or live in a house in which the foundation did not meet building codes? Of course not… it puts the contents of that residence at risk. (Comments: Most developers dont realize that validation can be a direct reflection of business logic. Just recently I had conversation with a person for an hour about a single field because that field represented the core rule that was driving the entire transaction.) |
| Mon 26 May 16:14 | Anonymous | Would you buy or live in a house in which the foundation did not meet building codes? Get over yourselves. There's a massive difference between building codes and valid HTML. Building codes keep people from dying. Non-validating HTML only pisses off the developers, but there is very little business cost associated with non-valid markup. A business has to be nearly perfect everywhere else before they should spend a few bucks to make sure their HTML validates. |
| Tue 27 May 18:27 | Philip Chalmers | Thi sissue will only be resolved when the web standards bodies produce validation suites like the ones for full-strength programming languages (e.g. C++). Then browser developers will have no excuse for the idiosyncracies which force web programmers and the developers of WYSIWYG editors to produce non-validating hacks for browser bugs. |
| Unplug That Projector! | Fri 23 May |
| Tufte is not merely having fun here. In many companies, important decisions come out of meetings in which PowerPoint slides define the agenda. |
| Tue 27 May 18:21 | Philip Chalmers | The other root problems are lack of time and lack of confidence. In principle you should write the notes first, review them and then, when reasonably happy, produce the slides. Through lack of time people produce the slides first, just to be sure they have something to show. And a lot of people lack the confidence to talk without slides. |
| The importance of content management system usability | Mon 26 May |
| The general rule is: the more people using a system, the simpler and easier it needs to be. |
| Tue 27 May 15:14 | Gordon | Shameless plug: The paper at this URL goes into some more detail. |
| The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch | Tue 20 May |
| (Jared Spool) The big survivors of the dot-com crash Amazon, eBay, Dell, Google, Yahoo, and CNN have each foregone the big redesign in lieu of continual changes on the site. The changes are so fluid that users hardly notice. (Comments: Evolution, Usability, and Web Design, What is iterative testing and why is it important?, and Web ReDesign - Workflow That Works.) |
| Tue 27 May 14:44 | Jason Fried | In related news, we just launched 37express which is built around quick (one week), affordable, single-page redesigns. |
| Spam is tip of iceberg of information overload | Mon 26 May |
| (Gerry McGovern) For every page printed, there are 30,000 pages published on computers. Today, glut is a far greater problem than scarcity. We are slowly being drowned by vast quantities of useless content. (Comments: Data smog and Overcoming information overload) |
| Mon 26 May 10:00 | (the other) JS | This is mostly due to definitions for the word information lacking any application to human objectives. Can there be 'information overload' if there isn't a woking definition of information? An even better question to consider is whether information technology can truly exist as different from data processing technology. |
| Mon 26 May 10:37 | Anonymous | Some days I feel like useless content. |
| Mon 26 May 14:50 | Ron Zeno | Comparing spam to poorly written articles and reports? Huh? |
| Mon 26 May 23:49 | Anonymous | What about inspirational quotes, forwarded news articles, office betting pools, circulated rumors, CYA memos. Spam. |