January 26, 2007
Back in 2000, Sydney hosted the Olympic Games. At the time, Sydney also hosted what is probably the most often cited legal case involving web accessibility. After visiting the Australia Day website, it appears that history is repeating itself…
January 25, 2007
The best designs require the least instructions. Well-designed products should be intuitive and natural to use. If your product requires instructions, perhaps there is a flaw in your design. And if your product is as simple as a door, and needs a sign like this, then something has gone fundamentally wrong.
January 24, 2007
We’re looking to take on some great people in some great roles…
January 23, 2007
Unlike Wikipedia, here at iQ Towers, we will never flag external links with nofollow. Here’s why…
January 22, 2007
My last post on Barcamp covered my own presentation notes, this one deals with what I got out of the other speakers. In no particular order, here are my highlights of the talks (the other highlights chatting to some very interesting people).
January 21, 2007
Fresh back from Barcamp in Waterford. Great day and some great talks. Kudos to Keith Bohanna, Tom Corcoran and his team at WIT for putting so much work into the day.
I was scheduled to speak at the same time as Bernie Goldbach, who pulled a big crowd, leaving me with a slightly reduced audience. However, I was more bothered that I missed Bernie’s talk myself as we’ve been talking about podcasting opportunities in iQ Content. However, I did catch the end of it and Conn’s excellent talk about the practical aspects of producing quality podcasts. I also had a very interesting chat with Eoghan McCabe. This guy knows his web design.
January 18, 2007
Cognitive psychology talks about change blindness, web design about navigational blindness. What they have in common is that the focus of attention is away from where it should be, and as a result, important on screen activity or page elements are ignored.
My recent experience on art.com is a great example of why you need to think about where your user’s attention is when designing page navigation…
