agenda for 11-27-2000
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links for a talk at Emerson College's Online Publishing seminar my background Technical writing, information design, usability research, ui design... Trellix creates tools that let regular people build web sites quickly; if you want to see our latest product, Trellix Web Express, in action you can build a web site at Bolt (or a dozen other sites). (readers are) skimming key resource: Jakob Nielsen's How Users Read On The Web (see handout) bonus links: Julia Hayden's Language, The Ultimate User Interface an article of mine on personality in interface text (applying Nass / Reeves research): remove unintended effects first, then add personality (readers don't mind) scrolling key resource: User Interface Engineering's As The Page Scrolls (see handout) chunking (is an art) linking key resource: Dan Bricklin's Write links that don't have to be followed (see handout) good content is hard work a picture of an iceberg from another talk personality issues For those of you who don't know her work, I'd like to recommend Amy Gahran's Contentious. I totally subscribe to the content in her article, "What It Takes to be an Online Content Pro" in which she says we need to be
Curious * Brave * Self-directed * Disciplined * Organized * Emotionally strong * Humble * Cooperative * Versatile * Flexible * Savvy * Ethical * Outgoing * Patient & persistent * Fun-loving
Gahran is also involved in encouraging print journalists to move online. Jeffrey Zeldman's A List Apart hosts Curt Cloninger's Usability Experts Are From Mars; Graphic Designers Are From Venus... change is constant which is why the margins of the web are interesting my favorite resources |
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