News : January 2006 Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1) Designers, clients and site visitors all have a role to play in achieving higher levels of accessibility across the Web. In a two-part series, contributing author Christian Heilmann discusses the seven habits that fail to deliver accessibility and what you can do to create change. This … Read more
Sites of Note Nick Finck January 17, 2006 at 9:52 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! You can probably tell by the frequency of posts that things are getting busy again for me, so I will make this post more of a compelation instead of my typical post. Quite simply, here are … Read more
News : December 2005 Is Web 2.0 dead, for real? While several people are just beginning to understand what “Web 2.0” is, others who have been working within the realm of it are now beginning to say it’s dead. Thomas Vander Wal has a great post entitled Web 2.0 Dead? explaining this in more detail … Read more
Seven things your web sites should be doing Nick Finck December 23, 2005 at 11:55 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! About a year ago I posted about Ten things your web sites should be doing. Well, seeing that a year has lapsed since that posting, I thought I would revisit it. … Read more
Is Web 2.0 dead, for real? Nick Finck December 27, 2005 at 12:12 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! While several people are just beginning to understand what “Web 2.0” is, others who have been working within the realm of it are now beginning to say it’s dead. Thomas Vander Wal has … Read more
News : November 2005 Gotomobile Digital Web Magazine contributor Kelly Goto, most known for her book Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works and publisher of the gotoreport, announced the launch of Gotomobile, a blog about mobile usability design and user experience research & testing. Post it on Del.icio.us and pull the RSS feed into your … Read more
UXmatters launches Nick Finck November 7, 2005 at 9:37 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Janet M. Six tell me that the new online publication for User Experience has launched in full force. The publication is called UXmatters. In this issue Pabini writes a great welcome editorial for the … Read more
News : October 2005 Tony Byrne interview As the Web matures and businesses around the world begin to fully grasp its potential, content management systems have become critical to publishing and processing online content. Lou Rosenfeld (co-father of the field of information architecture) and Tony Byrne (of CMS Watch) discuss selecting the right CMS, why … Read more
Is Web 2.0 Over? Nick Finck October 2, 2005 at 1:50 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Jay Fineberg has an interesting post over on iCite entitled The era of web 2.Over which goes into detail about Tim O’Reilly’s recent essay about Web 2.0 and it’s future. From Jay’s point of view, … Read more
News : September 2005 Blue Flavor Ok, for those of you who are regular readers you will know I have been hinting at a new business venture for a while now. Well, the waiting is over. After much nurturing I am happy to announce the launch of Blue Flavor. Blue Flavor is a experience design … Read more
The ROI of a good copy writer Nick Finck September 8, 2005 at 6:22 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, today WebTrends launched Web Position. Now, I am sure this is a great piece of software that helps you quantify your listings with search engines. However, the problem I am seeing … Read more
OmniGraffle 4.0 Nick Finck September 14, 2005 at 9:20 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! My friends at OmniGroup tell me that OmniGraffle 4.0 has been released. Clearly some of my friends are not excited about this as I am, but that’s ok… they’d only understand if they were an information architect … Read more
IA with content or IA with code? Nick Finck September 20, 2005 at 3:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Garrett Dimon has posted a great article about Information Architecture as part of his series on redesigning his site step by step (also see Getting Our Act Together). One thing about the … Read more
News : July 2005 Hierarchy, Facets, and Tags do Battle The OSA Foundation has a pretty interesting read on Hierarchy vs. Facets vs. Tags which I recommend you check out if you are doing any kind of IA work. Some pretty good points are brought up here. This all, of course, points back to Chandler. … Read more
The Video iPod Nick Finck July 28, 2005 at 7:21 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So I am sitting in the car on our way back from lunch yesterday. I look over at Lee and say, “You know, it’s only a matter of time before there is a Video Pod.” …I … Read more
Blogs and Usability Nick Finck July 22, 2005 at 2:23 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The Catalyst Group Design has published A Study of Blogs and Usability. The results are rather interesting but expected. If anyone has been to a BJ Fogg presentation you’ll know that we need to start moving … Read more
News : June 2005 Early bird registration ends tomorrow There are just 24 hours left for you to get the special Early Bird rate for WebVisions 2005. Registration rates will go up starting after July 1st so hurry up and grab your tickets. The show is filling up pretty quickly now that we have announced … Read more
Thoughts on the Technorati beta Nick Finck June 13, 2005 at 12:23 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Jay Fienberg tells me that there is a new Technorati Beta out for everyone to kick the tires on. A lot of great people are working on Technorati and have contributed to this beta … Read more
The lesser known Nick Finck June 8, 2005 at 7:17 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There has been a lot of sites circling around lately about web celebrities; A lists, top 50 lists, what famous web guru are you, who’s in the musical baton circle, the uberrati etc. The funny thing … Read more
Google’s site ranking algorithms revealed Nick Finck June 17, 2005 at 8:46 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It seems that Google has publicly posted their site ranking algorithms via a public patent filing. Now my first thought was “oh great, now every manipulative marketer on the block is going to abuse … Read more
News : May 2005 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine Most of us have done it. We’ve cast aside our film cameras for the conveniences of digital photography. Don’t like a snap? Delete it. But what about all those photos of friends, flowers and relations that did make the cut? First time contributing author Matt … Read more
Switching Nick Finck May 28, 2005 at 12:53 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There seems to be a lot of talk about switching lately; someone switching to a Mac, someone switching to Linux and even a whole company switching platforms. For those who have been paying attention to my Flickr photostream, … Read more
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