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Sep 09, 2006
Usability

Why Must Users RTFM?

Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the O’Reilly Head First book series (including the super-cool Head First Design Patterns book), has a very long, very passionate post on some of the fundamental disconnects product creators have with their documentation...

Sep 09, 2006
Meta

Hi Tantek!

I was browsing through this blog’s profile on Technorati a few minutes ago when I noticed that someone (besides myself) had marked this as a favorite. Feeling pleased, I decided to see who it was: turns out that Tantek Çelik, CTO of Technorati, W3...

Sep 08, 2006
Usability

The Spoolcast Continues

Parts two, three, and four of Jared Spool’s Spoolcast are also available. Part 1: Description - MP3 - Transcript Part 2: Description - MP3 Part 3: Description - MP3 Part 4: Description - MP3

Sep 07, 2006
Usability

Jared Spool on…just about everything

Jared Spool, noted usability guy and wiseass (read his bio), introduces the Spoolcast, a roundtable podcast, covering a variety of topics. Episode 1 includes the following topics (and thankfully does not feature a Jamaican alien with floppy ears):...

Sep 06, 2006
Web Design

IE 7 Developer Center Updates

Dave Massy, a PM from the Internet Explorer team, blogged about the revamp of the IE Developer Center on MSDN: We've worked to make some of the essential links such as reference material easier to find and we will be promoting different content on...

Sep 05, 2006
Usability

The Unfortunate Ergonomics of the School Cafeteria

Diana Wynne, blogger extraordinaire and a design manager at an unnamed company in San Francisco, opines about the sorry state of ergonomics in your child’s cafeteria. At Microsoft, we have a vaguely similar setup, except that our receptacles are ...

Sep 05, 2006
Web Design

Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1 Available!

Microsoft just released Beta 1 of their new, designer-oriented web development product, Expression Web. Expression Web, which requires v2.0 of the .NET Framework, can be downloaded for free from Microsoft (requires free registration and a Windows ...

Sep 03, 2006
Ui Design

Tufteisms

Have you ever spent time browsing Edward Tufte’s website? You really should. I haven’t in quite a while, and I was surprised by how much I had missed previously. The man is absolutely spectacular at the art of presenting information usefully, and ...

Aug 31, 2006
Meta

…a new day

The single most beautiful thing I have ever borne witness to was a Sigur Ros concert in Seattle back in May 2006. There’s a point in one of their songs, entitled viðrar vel til loftárása, where the lead singer, Jónsi, pauses mid-lyric, holding his...