Arrived this afternoon:
Designed by local Canberra freelance designer Ben Cochrane (let me know if you want his contact details for design work) and printed by Hero Print.
I found Ben through a bunch of business cards that UC grad students design and print and the university then sends around to local businesses - and because I […]
I’ve just finished reading a book “A Mind of its Own” by psychologist Cordelia Fine; a well-researched book backed up with lots of evidence from social psychology experiments and that will either leave you feeling in denial or a with slightly hurt ego … but one of the things she mentions in the book is […]
I was planning on simply posting machine laziness and feedback, until I was re-reading parts of Dan Saffer’s “Designing for interaction” this morning over breakfast and had a thought; made a connection.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a an image of Hugh Dubberly’s system diagram on the Internet to link to - so hopefully you’re familiar with […]
You don’t really “get it” until you experience it first-hand. Like I did watching Debra Wells use a screen reader at last month’s Web Standards Group meeting and like I am currently while learning to use my new half-keyboard due to problems with my right wrist.
I think most people in this space now accept […]
Why make users invest double the amount of time matching up labels in the instructional text with labels on the action buttons? The only reason (I know of) where you might use differing descriptive words is for SEO to increase the findability of content; but that should never inhibit the effectiveness and intuitiveness of navigation […]
