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Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web
Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web by Scott Berkun, Microsoft Corporation. The basic idea in Fitts’s Law is that any time a person uses a mouse to move the mouse pointer, certain characteristics of objects on the screen make them easy or hard to click on. The farther the person has to move the mouse…
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FUNNY: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Go to Google.com, type “weapons of mass destruction” into the search field, and click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Note, though, don’t click the link about the t-shirt at the bottom of the page. I got pop-ups about online gambling.
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Thinking about affordances & convention in web design
I wrote the following intending to include it in an email newsletter I send out. I had Chey read it and it seems the word “affordance” used in this way is a bit too esoteric. I’ve started trying to rewrite it, starting from the user-testing paragraph, but I’m having trouble writing about this concept without…
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Nice horns
If you cross your eyes a little until the photo blurs, the horns kind of look like arms or legs and the body looks like some kind of contortionist act. Or maybe that’s just me. And, yes, I have this habit of crossing my eyes when looking at images.
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Fleeing monkey narrowly escapes three-year-old zoo-goer
So we watched Shipping News a couple nights ago. I enjoyed it. In it, the protagonist occassionally mumbles headlines to himself. So, I made up a headline. Feel free to comment with your own.
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How HTML and CSS is like an egg hatching.
A discussion has been building in a web developer community email list I receive. The discussion looks at the field of “professional web developer/designer/etc.” One of the posters wrote up a long response to many comments; one of the things he said struck me as true, but a shallow observation. It was this: Stuff like…
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Photo: Two Cute
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Dave Agnew’s web site
Dave Agnew has been running his own business, Dynamic Control Systems, LLC, for over a year now (how long, Dave?). He’s a hired-gun, so-to-speak, designing and building control systems for conveyers, lifts, and other material handling equipment in the automobile/manufacturing industry. He’s the guy behind the machinery that, for example, takes a car door and…
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So, the colors here
Chey looked at this site yesterday evening and said to me, “So, why don’t you ask me when you redesign this page? I don’t like these colors.” I found it sort of funny. I pictured myself sneaking upstairs at midnight, my wife sleeping soundly in bed. How peaceful. Then, I would put my hand gently…
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Congratulations to the Junior Pistol Team from the Ottowa Sportsmen’s Club
A group of young pistol shooters from the Ottowa Sportsmen’s Club in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan performed well at the National Pistol Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio, this past week. The following is an excerpt from an email report from my father, who has been coaching the young shooters. There were 18 Sharpshooter Class…