“Usability” Archive

Google Chrome

I love it: 99.9 % of the readers of this site already know about Google Chrome, the browser my employer just released. Still, I am not talking as an employee here, and still, there might be something in this post that you didn’t know …

¶ September 4, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience.

Updating a Definition of Art

When I once tried to define art, design, and decoration, I described art as: “Art hides. Art has a meaning, and it hides it, on purpose. Art delivers a message, and that message is hidden, on purpose. It is an art to create art. Art is unusable, by definition.” Several months and discussions later …

¶ July 29, 2008, filed under Usability, Design.

10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance

Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance …

¶ June 24, 2008, filed under Web Development, Usability, Design, User Experience.

Thoughts on Email

Email was, is, and will stay the web’s true killer application, but spam, top-posting, incompetent use of newsletters, and the HTML email problem mean serious challenges. I can’t but get rid of …

¶ June 10, 2008, filed under Web Development, Usability, User Experience.

Web Design: 10 Additional Research Findings You Should Know

Following up on last year’s post on web design research, here’s a new collection of research results, this time featuring further reading as well. It happens that I still watch the work of Association for Computing Machinery, Human Factors International, and the like …

¶ June 5, 2008, filed under Usability, Design, User Experience.

Less Is Still More

How much time and money gets spent on making things worse is something I find absolutely fascinating. Allow me to elaborate, starting with HTML newsletters: People (let) spend hours on writing supposed content, create and decorate mockups, work around ridiculous email client implementations, …

¶ May 21, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design, User Experience.

Website Optimization Measures, Part IV

Once again, though already covering a few weeks of various improvements. Some have been taken place in Bremen, others in Zurich, all on one or more of my sites. Anyway, enjoy some additional tips, this time roughly touching typography, usability, SEO, and web development with performance focus …

¶ May 5, 2008, filed under Web Development, Usability, Design.

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