Archive for August 2002
An interview with author of Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Putting Eye Candy to Work, Curt Cloninger at Web Builder. Sites don’t have to be bland nor do they have to be graphics-heavy, load time killers.
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It’s a good thing they didn’t call it the Usability Maturity Model aka UMM. Usability Capabilities Model – Review and Analysis (PDF) summary states, “Our conclusion is that process assessment approach forms a good basis for a usability capability model. However, the existing models should be extended with new organisation and business related processes. In addition, non-process perspectives as skills, resources, technology, and culture in user-centred design should be covered.” [Link Webword]
Huzzah! I never believed in one-size-fits-all when it comes to processes. The author is correct in saying that it’s the organization’s processes that can extend a model along with other factors that input to it.
This Flash presentation is 8.4MB, but many of you are fans of Lessig’s work and speeches on copyrights. When you go to free_culture, it doesn’t go right into the animation. It offers the PowerPoint presentation and topic related links.
An unemployed acquaintance turned down a job offer because it conflicted with her ethics. Would you, as a designer, do any of these 12 projects? The Road to Hell ventures deep south to Dante’s territory. [Link Webword]
On my last trip, I didn’t take my laptop with me since I was booked solid and had no time to write. Instead, I read a "summer" book, Kentucky Roses and am glad I spent my "last chance to read a fiction book" in a long time on this one.
Anticipating Human Error shares a heartbreaking story of an error with a radiation system. Errors happen in software and a. Plain and simple. We all know this. You know how “Hindsight is always 20/20?” Take advantage of this knowledge to find and predict the kinds of errors humans will make in the application. Take the information and address how the application should respond when each error happens.
Webgraphics has reported that Micro$oft has shut down its TrueType core fonts for the Web download page. The page points us to another page with a list of Commercial foundries, Shareware foundries and Freeware foundries. I guess they’re trying to get rid of everything “free&,#148; a word that was never in the company’s dictionary.
Can’t come up for air yet… gotta finish… gotta finish. Meanwhile, entertain yourself with the 5K contest winning entries. I took a minute to look at the big winner and it’s useless, but darn cute and creative.
Previously, I reported that Web Site Garage is shutting down and that I liked their Hitometer service. Dutifully, I removed the scripts from this site’s pages where the script was planted.
In trying to stop the emails, I went to Web Site Garage to change my settings and every time I receive a "Server temporarily down&#quot; notice. This has been happening for over three weeks and I’m still getting Hitometer emails. I hope these stop on August 15, when they’ve officially ended the service. I really don’t want to get emails with useless information on top of the usual spam load.
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