narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2006 | design, web, font, typography, usability, blog, agency, ia, article
InformationArchitects Japan is a UI agency with very welll-written blogs. This is part 2 of 2 articles on typography in web design and usability.
Includes common web design mistakes.
Quoted: An avalanche of comments, hundreds of applauding blog entries, honoring honorably mentions from cooler and more sublime and hotter and ...
narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2008 | usability, design, web, article
Quoted: Summary:Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
Jakob Nielsen’s recently published web usage findings on browsing and search behaviors. The findings also reconfirm some of the existing usability guidelines (i.e. E-mail newsletters DO drive users back to the site, open new browser windows is confusing to users, non-standard ui elements are bad idea, ...etc.)
The test subjects to these findings were biased to “richer, intelligent” professionals. If these people are having trouble with understanding website ui, the rest of online users are likely to experience similar pain.
ShareViewed: 1 Time- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 28 2008 | web, design, designer, portfolio
Highly recommended interaction designer, via Julie R.
Quoted: Leigh Allen-Arredondo
Interaction DesignAbout Me
Highly Experienced
User-focused
Creative
Problem-solver
Self-starter, resourceful
Collaborative
Multi-tasker
Able to bring definition to ambiguity
Used to working with multi-disciplinary teams
Can work on location or remotely
Available for contract or freelance design - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | web, design, webdev, portfolio, javascript
Thomas Fuchs professional page
ShareViewed: 1 Time - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 02 2007 | illustrator, web, design, tutorial, resource
Nick La, who maintained and designed Designer Wall, has more tutorials on his site.
Quoted: Step-by-step Adobe Illustrator tutorials with original source file download.
ShareViewed: 71 Times - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2007 | web, design, report, resource, webdesign, website
Research intro page.
Quoted: What exactly do users take into account when deciding what to believe on the Web?
Reports on:
- Evaluation Strategies
- Design
- Individual factors
- Context and ContentShareViewed: 1 Time - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 02 2007 | web, agency, design
I designed lots of stuff here.
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narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2007 | design, web, inspiration, resource, webdesign
Showcase of 404 error page designs, part 2
Quoted: Three weeks ago we’ve showcased some of the most beautiful, creative and user-friendly 404 Error Pages; collected interesting ideas one can use to help out
ShareViewed: 3 Times- narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 07 2007 | web, design, inspiration
A collection of sites for textured design reference.
Quoted: Artistic gallery
I made a large screenshot of the sites in case they redesign their sites.ShareViewed: 1 Time - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 07 2007 | web, css, design, blog, inspiration
A super ornate and water-colored paper textured design. I love the site design.
ShareViewed: 41 Times - narisa | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 03 2007 | design, web, data, analytics
From Edward Tufte to Captain Kirk: A great example of good analysis and how to present information (outside of PowerPoint)
Quoted: Conclusion:
We can reliably improve the survivability of the red-shirted crewmen by only exploring peaceful, female-only planets (android and alien females included).
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