Online Reading of the Day…
Boxes and Arrows: HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. - some strong opinions on what is wrong with HTML plus a list of technological alternatives to its dominance.
HTML is Dead? Long Live HTML!
Yahoo! to Buy Inktomi - a good analysis on why is Yahoo! buying Inktomi.
Ftrain: My Financial Career - [...]
Voice Interfaces and Usability
Voice Interfaces: Assessing the Potential - Jakob Nielsen claims that voice interfaces will not replace screens as the medium of choice for most user interfaces.
Something in the air: An interface only a mother could love - a refreshing critique on voice interface from IBM’s developerworks website
Designing Highly Effective Voice Applications: Lessons in [...]
Web Information Architecture and Usability Catch of the Day:
The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines - Stanford University
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization
Boxes and Arrows: What is a Web Application?
Weblog (Blog) Systems
Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly — whenever the urge strikes. Blogger is the leading tool in the rapidly growing area of web publishing known as weblogs, or “blogs.”
Radio UserLand is an easy-to-use Weblog tool that runs on your desktop. Radio will automatically build your weblog, [...]
Non-commercial Web Directories
- irreplaceable alternatives to the add-driven commercial directories and web portals
Librarians’ Index to the Internet - lii.org
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Resource Discovery Network
Internet Public Library
Information Architecture, Web Usability & Interaction Design Resources
Information Architecture for the Rest of Us
Evaluating Information Architecture (PDF)
Seven Pitfalls to Avoid in Information Architecture
Using Site Evaluations to Communicate with Clients
Boxes and Arrows
The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break
Lou Rosenfeld’s weblog
A collection of pithy quotations related to usability, communication and design
Information Architecture CommonplaceBook
Search Engine Optimization Catch of the Day
Visualizing the Web with Google: The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser shows you what the web “looks like” to the search engine, visually displaying the linkages between your favorite web sites.
Search Engine Watch: Death Of A Meta Tag
Search Engine News: Rebirth of the Keyword Meta Tag?
Library Lookup
The free Library Lookup bookmarklet is a brilliant little bit of code that makes looking up books at your local library painless and virtually instantaneous.
LibraryLookup Homepage
The Library Lookup bookmarklet instantly searches your local library while you’re viewing pages at any online bookstore.
Build your own bookmarklet
Unfortunatelly, I have not found a way to make this [...]
Usability Catch of the day:
Return on Investment (ROI) for Usability (Jacob Nielsen’s Alertbox Jan. 2003)
Development projects should spend 10% of their budget on usability. Following a usability redesign, websites increase usability by 135% on average; intranets improve slightly less.
HTML tips: How to make forms your visitors can actually use
Review - The Elements of User [...]
Projects I am working on now:
One World Baha’i School — website design, production and maintenance
Washington DC Baha’i Center — website maintenance
H.A. Sack Company — website production and maintenance, search engine optimization
Interfaith Conference of Washington Metropolitan Area — information architecture redesign
Baha’i Music Web Database — website design and production, database programming (work in progress)
Washington Metropolitan Baha’i [...]