The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness offers truly brilliant examples of how NOT to write user instructions. “Sanyan Wield Ways and Means” is either the victim of machine translation or contains some obscure coded text: With appertain rotor of screw setting pre ceiling on the…
Inknoise offers a great timesaver: a CSS layout generator that allows you to define how many columns the page should have, pixel widths, background colors, etc. Defining all this CSS code by hand is a pain, and Dreamweaver doesn’t help much, so these templates are…
In A List Apart (16 Jan 06), Jeffrey Zeldman offers a different perspective on the “Web 2.0″ hype. His explanation of the phenomenon is particulary succinct: Some small teams of sharp people—people who once, perhaps, worked for those with dimmer visions—are now following their own…
Web designers take note: you have less than a second to make a good first impression when someone visits your web page. Researchers [at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada] found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a…
“Information overload” has been in our vocabulary for decades–we can all relate to the frustration of receiving 100+ emails a day and not having enough time to process all the information that comes at us. We joke about it. Philosopher Daniel Dennett offers a disturbing…
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Axure how-to: create a conditional buttonAxure is my absolute favorite tool for wireframing,…©2006-2011 CLG
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