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Tag: Web Design

  • Change is afoot in the web…More foundational than when the first graphic showed up in a web browser…

    What an exciting time to be in the Web industry. I just read an essay by Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path that really got me thinking. Major change, like questions of what happens to our bookmarks when we lose our current definition of a web page? In 2002, Luke Wroblewski of the NCSA published a…

  • Beauty of a web site

    Tractinsky, N., Katz, A.S., and Ikar, D.

  • 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…

  • Plug for Mr. Tufte

    “One visionary day….the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays.”WIRED “The Leonardo da Vinci of data.”THE NEW YORK TIMES Tufte has courses coming up in Dearborn, MI in mid-April. I attended one of his courses in Chicago about a year and a half ago.…

  • web art…maybe

    Just happened across this site this evening. Found it intriguing. Not sure what it is, but it seems like a collection of personal pages of some highly talented/experienced designers/photographers/artists. I haven’t looked at the whole site, but what I saw I found refreshing. http://www.bossanova.com/

  • Zeldman is doing a redesign,

    Zeldman is doing a redesign, usually interesting to look at. Check it out.

  • In the ongoing search for masterpieces on the web…

    The Peabody Essex Museum has an online exhibit of a traditional Chinese home. The exhibit is really very well designed and well styled. When looking at design, I sometimes think about it from an organic design perspective. The web is at the core a place of data, rectangles, and symmetry…not so organic. This site does…