I just discovered Creating Passionate Users, a blog/website that explores topics similar to my own interests (cognitive science & usability) but in a much more focused & professional way. We are all passionate about the brain and metacognition, most especially–how the brain works and how…
Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form offers some thoughts on formatting tables that are easy for the eye to scan. In a November 2005 article for UX Matters (“So the Necessary May Speak”) he redesigned a table and made it more user-friendly by doing two things:…
It’s an ideavirus of epic proportions — lately all I read about in the webdev news is Web 2.0. What it is, what it isn’t, how tired people are of it, whether there’s still money to be made doing it. Web 2.0 loosely defined is…
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…
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