The Essence of a Successful Persona Project [UIE - Feb 17, 2010] – Personas are a flexible and powerful tool for user researchers. They’re also one of the most misunderstood. When done well, they ensure the team focuses on the needs and delights of their users. Like other effective user research techniques, personas deliver confidence and insights to the team. Personas help the team make important design decisions with a thorough understanding of who the users are, what they need, and when they need it. For the last few years, we’ve studied how a variety of design teams have tried to harvest the benefits of persona projects. We’ve explored several wildly successful persona projects and many that fell far short of their goals. We now better understand where the magic lies with personas — what the essence of a successful project is.
Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding [UX Booth - Feb 09, 2010] – The metaphor of storytelling, when applied to experience design, allows teams to understand narrative; to obtain an idea of who they are telling the story to, as well as what textual elements we can use to shape that story.
“Analog Dreams:” Paper-based sketching – Michael DiTullo, the industrial designer currently serving as Converse’s Creative Director, has self-published a 120-page book filled with ten years’ worth of his sketches.
25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time [Smashing Magazine - Jan 05, 2010] – We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have focused on current content but have included some older videos that are still relevant. It will take you more than 16 hours to watch all of these videos. So, make some popcorn, turn off the lights and enjoy.
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files [Smashing Magazine - Feb 05, 2010] – Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that serves as the foundation for any future alterations.
Hierarchical Task Analysis [UXmatters - Feb 08, 2010] – A structured, objective approach to describing users’ performance of tasks, hierarchical task analysis originated in human factors. In its most basic form, a hierarchical task analysis provides an understanding of the tasks users need to perform to achieve certain goals. You can break down these tasks into multiple levels of subtasks. In user experience, you can use hierarchical task analysis to describe the interactions between a user and a software system. When designing a new system, hierarchical task analysis lets you explore various possible approaches to completing the same task. When analyzing an existing system, it can help you to optimize particular interactions.
User Experience Programme [Forum Nokia] – Nokia has put together a rich and informative website covering the key elements of user experience. Remarkably helpful, no matter what kind of gadget you’re working on.
Removing Features [ignore the code - Feb 02, 2010] – Eventually, you will find yourself in a position where your application contains features it should not. Even if you’;ve been vigilant, this will happen.
Learning in Second Life: Virtual Education [VizWorld - Jan 23, 2010] – Several universities have begun to embrace “online courses”, coupling traditional education tools with web-based systems like Blackboard to increase revenue with a minimum of expense. It allows teachers to very easily re-use class materials (doesn’t get much easier than cut-n-paste, or simply clicking a “publish” button from their library of assets), and enables the university to open classes to students around the world. Virtual Worlds are becoming the “next generation” of these online courses, and Second Life is on the forefront of the wave.
Unmoderated, Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil? [UXmatters - Jan 18, 2010] – Recently, there has been a surge in the number of tools that are available for conducting unmoderated, remote usability testing—and this surge is changing the usability industry. Whether we want to or not, it forces us to take a closer look at the benefits and drawbacks of unmoderated testing and decide whether we should incorporate it into our usability toolbox.
How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design? [UXmatters - Sep 24, 2007] – The user experience field has been trying to move beyond mere usability and utility for years. So far, no one seems to have developed easy-to-implement, non-retrospective, valid, and reliable measures for gauging users’ emotional reactions to a system, application, or Web site. In this column, I’ll introduce you to a promising method that just might solve this problem. While this method has not yet been subjected to rigorous peer review or experimental testing, it offers an intriguing solution and is endlessly fascinating to me. And it just might prove to be the kind of powerful technique we’ve been looking for to illuminate users’ emotional reactions to our designs.
Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources [Noupe - Jan 15, 2010] – Below are a collection of resources to get you going down the information architecture and data visualization path. Whether you just want to become more familiar with infographics and data visualizations for occasional use or are thinking of making it a career, the resources below will surely come in handy. There are also some beautiful examples and more roundups to see even more fantastic graphics.
Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization [Lifehacker - Jan 15, 2010] – At Iconizer you can not only browse through categories like icons for actions, communication, hardware & devices, and other types of customization but you can browse for icons by operating system. Love the way a certain icon is used on the Mac? Like the way Aero displays things on Vista and Windows 7? You can dip into the icon sets for each operating system and customize icons from it for personal use. Not only are stock icons included but each category has around a dozen additional icons sets independent of entries like Aero, Vista, or Tiger.
Drawter.com – DrawAble Markup Language – Drawter Beta 2 is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website's code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you have drawn.
EverydayLives: An iPhone app for ethnography [Core77 - Dec 22, 2009] – EverydayLives is a UK-based research agency that focuses their attention on ethnographic research. This week they released “a sophisticated research tool designed by ethnographic researchers for ethnographic researchers, field anthropologists, agency planners, marketers and research respondents” and it comes in the form of a convenient iPhone app. We think designers could benefit from this tool, as it would complement our research activities perfectly. And it reduces all that cumbersome equipment often required for in depth inquiry. Using this tool, you can capture video, photos, text and audio and then immediately share any outcomes with clients, colleagues or participants while in the field. We stumbled across a preview video that shows the app in action. And if you aren’t an iPhone user, word on the street is that a Blackberry version is in the works.
Protokit 0.1- Protokit is an emerging experiment of Michael targeted at those who like creating HTML prototypes. Protokit is a toolkit composed of existing Javascript libraries which work are combined to together to make the process easier. Hats off to open source prototyping.
FlockDraw – FlockDraw is an online collaborative drawing tool. It looks like it has some interesting potential for those times when you need to sketch something out together in real time and it’s just not possible to meet face to face. This flash based tool allows to create separate rooms for each sketch which are bound to unique and sharable URLs. The software is very light weight with the first version being released just last month and there is still room for improvement. The slight bothersome usability issue lies around the fact that the toolbar does not indicate the selected tool, nor the selected state of each tool (ex: brush size or color). Other than that, I’m looking forward to eyeing this little app into the future.
Web accessibility no longer an afterthought [CNN - Dec 15, 2009] – Web designers are starting to take accessibility as seriously as button placement or heading layout when they develop their products, improving the Web experience not only for people like Tsaran — who lost his sight at the age of five — but for Web users in general.
WebEditors [Genii Software - Sep 17, 2009] – This list of WYSIWYG rich text web editors is being maintained as a general resource for developers who want to add a richer editing experience to web based applications.
10/GUI – 10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way.
Understanding Users of Social Networks [Harvard Business School - Sep 14, 2009] – Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter – the newest kid on the block – is sharply different from forerunners such as Facebook and MySpace. He has also applied many of the insights to help companies develop strategies for leveraging these various online entities for profit.
Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier [Lifehacker - Aug 18, 2009] – The free Adobe Shortcut App gives fast access to look up keyboard shortcuts for the entire array of Adobe products from one simple place. Once you've installed the Adobe AIR application, you can choose a program from the buttons on the top, and find a shortcut using the search box, browsing, or even adding them to a favorites list. You can switch between viewing Windows or Mac shortcuts, or even view the cheat sheet in PDF format. It’s a quick and easy way to look up the shortcuts without having to pull out the help file. Adobe Shortcut App is a free download for all platforms, requires Adobe AIR.
Q&A site for user experience professionals [UX Exchange] – UX Exchange is a User Experience (UX) Q & A site. You can register if you want to collect reputation points and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it’s just free to post and answer questions.
Moderating Usability Tests [Elsevier Direct - Videos] – This companion site features a number of short role-playing videos that accompany Moderating Usability Tests. The videos were filmed in the Bentley College Design and Usability Center laboratory, and were carefully scripted to illustrate the points made in the book. Some of the clips show both good and not-so-good moderating practices.
How to Understand Your Users with Personas [Carsonified - Oct 14, 2009] – Personas are a powerful tool for helping you to better understand the needs of your users. In this comic, drawn exclusively for Think Vitamin, you’ll learn more about Personas and how they’ll revolutionize the way you design and build web sites.
Tools for Sketching User Experiences [UX Booth - Oct 06, 2009] – In this article, I’ll expound on the tools I use every day to design interfaces and experiences. I’ve spent years trying a variety of tools, and so far, analog tools such as markers, notebooks and paper templates have proved to be the most effective because of their constraints and flexibility.
Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces [Smashing Magazine - Oct 07, 2009] – Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case and completely alienate them in an extreme case. But if you take measures first to reduce actual complexity and then to minimize perceived complexity, the user will be rewarded with a gratifying experience.
A method for quantifying user experience [FatDUX - Oct 05, 2009] – We start by consolidating our research findings in a single first-person narrative – an X-log (experience log). This is somewhat related to phenomenology. Once we’ve assembled this story, we work together with the client to: 1. mark each individual interaction – we call these “snapshots”
2. assign a value from 1 to 3 to each snapshot in relation to its contribution to the overall experience
3. grade the experience on a scale from -3 to +3
4. multiply the value by the grade to get a score (this is the really useful number)
5. note any events that are recurring, unique, or may be influenced by chronology (cause and effect relationships).
On the Internet, Everyone’s a Critic But They’re Not Very Critical [Wall Street Journal - Oct 05, 2009] – Many companies have noticed serious grade inflation. Google Inc.'s YouTube says the videos on its site average 4.6 stars, because viewers use five-star ratings to "give props" to video makers. Buzzillions.com, which aggregates reviews from 3,000 sites, has tracked millions of reviews and has spotted particular exuberance for products such as printer paper (average: 4.4 stars), boots (4.4) and dog food (4.7).
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines [Smashing Magazine - Sep 24, 2009] – Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web and interface design, and the findings are valuable in helping us improve our work. Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites.
Now you’ll have no excuse to forget the milk [Examiner - Mar 31, 2009] – The Concierge experience begins when a shopper makes their list on their home computer linked to the supermarket’s Web site. When the shopper arrives at the store, they begin pushing the cart down the aisle. They can enter their Web site username and password on the 8.5-inch diagonal touch-screen LCD panel, or scan their loyalty card past the bar code reader, and up pops their shopping list. The bar code reader also tells you the price of each item as you put it in your cart and keeps a running total so there are no surprises at the checkout counter. The Concierge connects to an ultra-wideband wi-fi network in the store. Here’s where it gets weird. Using location-based technology on the network, Concierge knows where your cart is and arranges your shopping list by where the items are located in the store.
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile [Autodesk - Sep 17, 2009] – The Autodesk SketchBook Mobile painting and drawing application extends your digital sketchpad to your Apple iPhone or Apple iPod touch. With the same paint engine as Autodesk SketchBook Pro software, SketchBook Mobile offers professional-grade painting and drawing tools in a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Use it to digitally capture your ideas as napkin sketches or produce artwork on-the-go.
Wireframes and Concept: Planning a Website [Designer Break - Aug 22, 2009] – When planning a website the first important steps involve just a pen and a paper. It’s crucial to understand what we are creating and its nature. To list the purpose, the expected content and draw its structure will be our first concern.
An Interview With Edward Tufte [VizWorld - Sep 10, 2009] – Tufte, or ET as he prefers it, possesses an invaluable combination of talents that he draws from and to our collective benefit as visualization workers: an eye for art, thorough knowledge of content, design prowess, discipline, a desire to share and the energy for successive public speaking engagements in which he preaches his gospel. I met up with ET after one such lecture in Cincinnati on August 25th, at which time he was kind enough to participate in an audio interview that sits at the end of this post.
Engagement Economy [The Institute For The Future - Sep 18, 2008] – But how, exactly, do you turn attention into engagement? How do you convert a member of the crowd into a member of your team? To answer these questions, innovative organizations will have to grapple with the new challenge of harnessing "participation bandwidth." To do so, they may start to take their cues not from the world of business, but rather from the world of play. Game designers, virtual world builders, social media developers, and other "funware" creators have the potential to offer essential design strategies and economic theories for otherwise "serious" initiatives.
50 Most Usable RIAs [InsideRIA - Sep 02, 2009] – Bill Scott and I have reviewed hundreds of RIAs while compiling examples for our book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, and subsequent talks and articles. We recently realized that we had amassed quite a list of applications. Thinking other designers and developers might be interested in these resources, we applied two simple criteria to identify the top fifty: Number 1: Does it adhere to the 10 basic usability principles? Number 2: Is it really rich? Developing a product with Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight doesn't inherently make it rich. A usable RIA will embody these six principles:
OpenCourseWare: Intelligent User Experience Engineering (IN4179) [Delft University of Technology] – The open course, Intelligent User eXperience Engineering (IUXE), is given for the master programme “Media and Knowledge Engineering” and for students from other master programmes. The aim is to achieve an understanding and practical experience of key principles, methods and theories in the area of intelligent user experience engineering.
Rob Fay is a user experience architect making sense of an information age. He is passionate about the “I” in IT and strives to evangelize that information is a resource on equal footing with an organization’s human, financial, and physical resources.
Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership. Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic. Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them. No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists This post attempts to rethink Enterprise Information Architecture and argues that information architecture need not be constrained to designing structures and managing content as it relates to the Web or for any electronic system for that matter. Instead, 43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC. Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy… eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership. Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic. Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them. No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists This post attempts to rethink Enterprise Information Architecture and argues that information architecture need not be constrained to designing structures and managing content as it relates to the Web or for any electronic system for that matter. Instead, 43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC. Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy… eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
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Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. 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Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
People I Know
Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership. Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic. Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them. No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists This post attempts to rethink Enterprise Information Architecture and argues that information architecture need not be constrained to designing structures and managing content as it relates to the Web or for any electronic system for that matter. Instead, 43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC. Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy… eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
WWW Colleagues
Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership. Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic. Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them. No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists This post attempts to rethink Enterprise Information Architecture and argues that information architecture need not be constrained to designing structures and managing content as it relates to the Web or for any electronic system for that matter. Instead, 43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC. Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy… eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
People I Do Not Know
Effective Culture Change in the FBI I believe the primary reason for failed IT projects and a revolving door of CIOs at the FBI is primarily due to the agency’s culture, not failed technologies or poor CIO leadership. Egocentrically Altruistic Web 2.0 I think true Web 2.0 is more than a technology, a company, a concept, or a service. Web 2.0 is simply providing an intuitive rich user experience that can be both egocentric and altruistic. Fair Access, Security, and Innovation To combat technology and cybersecurity issues, the government should institute policies that promote technology diversity and should allow citizens to conduct business with the government using any technology available to them. No Scam Here – I Got the iBook! Then I stumbled across an “internet marketing” promotion. You may be familiar with them – “get a free iPod by getting 6 of your friends to sign up and register for X.” This promotion, offered by the Internet Opinion Group, used a different busines Rethinking EIA: Becoming Information Ecologists This post attempts to rethink Enterprise Information Architecture and argues that information architecture need not be constrained to designing structures and managing content as it relates to the Web or for any electronic system for that matter. Instead, 43 Folders 43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Alertbox Jakob Nielson’s column on Web usability Alex Rudloff Alex is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast located in Washington, DC. Armchair Reconnaissance Although I understand the validity of both the need for information security and information sharing, I feel we need to be ever so careful with how we use the proliferation of social software that has grown in the last few years. ASIS&T The Information Society for the Information Age Audioscrobbler What I’m listening to… Authentic Boredom Cameron Moll, Freelance New Media Pioneer Bloug Louis Rosenfeld, Pioneer Information Architect Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is firmly devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of graphic design, interaction design and information architecture, large and small. D*I*Y Planner Paper, productivity & passion DC Information Architects Where Information Architects Connect del.icio.us See my bookmarks! Digital Web Magazine Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. Donna Spencer Information architecture, user-centered design, usability, and much more eHub eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy… eLearning Post Explore news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more. Elearningpost’s mission is to provide quality e-learning and knowledege management content that attracts a diverse and emer Elegant Hack Christina Wodtke is the founder of Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA and is president of the Information Architecture Institute Findability Peter Morville’s thoughts on Ambient Findability and design of findable objects Flickr My photos GanttHead The Online Community for IT Project Managers Getting My Bearings James Melzer, Information Architect Green Chameleon Green Chameleon started out in May 2000 as a personal website of Patrick Lambe. Patrick is Principal Consultant at knowledge management consulting firm Straits Knowledge. Green Onions Dan Brown, User Experience Lead Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. IA Slash Jess McMullin InfoDesign Understanding by Design Information Architecture Institute The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Information Week InfoWorld Interaction Design Association Jeffrey Veen Founding partner of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett JJG started Adaptive Path to help people solve user experience problems. John Battelle Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Jon’s Radio Jon Udell, InfoWorld writer, analyst, and developer Keith Instone IBM, User Experience Design team Kevin Rose Kevin Rose, former G4/TechTV host, current host of Diggnation Leoville Leo Laporte, former host of G4/ TechTV Library Clips John Tropea shares from a librarian’s point of view Lifehacker Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Martin Hardee Usability, Design & Other Stuff Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. Noise Between Stations Victor Lombardi is a principal at the Management Innovation Group Off the Top Thomas Vander Wal, Principle, InfoCloud Solutions Periodic Design Jason Wishard, User Interface Designer Peterme.com Links, thoughts, and essays from Peter Merholz Robin Good What Communications Experts Need to Know Semantic Studios Peter Morville’s Column About Information Architecture and Strategy SimpleBits Dan Cederholm founded SimpleBits, a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Stopdesign Douglas Bowman is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. TechCrunch TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. Thinking and Making Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business TWiT This Week in Tech Usability News The British HCI Group is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. Usability Professionals’ Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Usability.gov Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces User Experience Network UXnet was formed to help make connections between the people and organizations that represent User Experience disciplines, and to encourage interchange and cooperation. UX Magazine UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. UXMatters Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community Veerle’s Blog Web 2.0 the Enterprise On the other hand, some organizations allow for the bottom-up vetting of ideas. Why not use a voting mechanism like that employed by Digg to allows employees to participate in a “suggestion box” approach – suggestions to better the company – both in t Web Developer’s Handbook developing web-sites, exploring own imagination WebWord Usability and Human Factors for the Internet Zeldman’s Daily Report Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder and Creative Director, is an internationally known web designer and author, architect of the web standards movement, and creator of some of the medium’s best-known brands.
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