trevor van gorp explains how psychologist mihaly csikszentmihalyis concept of flow can help you design emotional web experiences by cutting through information overload to engage users. here are some basic website traits that will help to encourage flow. clear navigation make it easy for the user to know where they are where they can go and where theyve been by including signposts such as breadcr...
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i am curating a series of articles at the venerable information architecture and user experience web magazine boxes and arrows based on the panel i moderated on the same topic at this years ia summit. the first article in the series is joe lamantias it seemed like the thing to do at the time the power of state mind. joe looks at the big picture literally comparing business failure ot catastrophic...
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the 5 hidden costs of running a cms paul boag vi e systm pro sprvu obsahu nepoeini jen sam klady. how much do you know about use yahoos site explorer and link data rand fishkin shrnuje nikter vlastnosti nstroj od yahoo. people finder searching without logic vivek deshmukh ojednom vyhledvai lidi. best practice for id and class names jens meiert opakovni je pro v html5 neni univer...
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bill has over fifteen years experience as a writer information architect product manager and now senior interaction designer with ziba design in portland oregon. with ziba he frames and details the experience flow and interaction on consumer and medical products. bill also writes about the variety and history of interaction design in everyday experiences on his blog push click touch and is a frequ...
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theres so much going on that i dont know where to begin so ill just dive in with what i have and what i tucked away to show you. search engine strategies in san jose is next week and no im not going this year. last years felt like it just happened yesterday and to be honest i had a such helluva time getting there that ive remained on the east coast ever since. ill be teaching at search camp phill...
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trevor van gorp todo un experto en diseao nos da una mini clase en forma de artaculos a travas del sitio boxesandarrows sobre interesantes temas interconectados diseao emociones y flujo. cada vez tenemos mas informacian dentro de la red que los diseaadores tienen que estructurar de una forma efectiva y ya no vale solamente con tener en cuenta asuntos como el color o la tipografaa tambian entran en...
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looking for places to hang smashing magazine offers 42 designtech magazines to read. i often have difficulty getting started on a project or writing assignment and i go to my aggregator and read until i find inspiration. i always start with some that i know consistently spark an interest but i do a lot of exploring for new ideas and just to initiate the getstarted juices flowing. sometimes you may...
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mte na strnce bezpeni zapsan email luk havrlant rewriting the beginners guide part vii growing popularity links rand fishkin budovni zpitnch odkaz. 8 innovative design ui elements that make sites better rand fishkin pr designerskch tip. building the ux dreamteam part 2 anthony colfelt budovni dokonalho tmu.......
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...the design of business. since 2001 its been a peerwritten journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking push limits and teach a few things along the way. nameboxes and arrows visithttpboxesandarrows.com picked onthursday july 17 2008 picked byroy rosser picked forlearn ratingplease visit picky surfer to rate. random comments be the first to comment todays pick brought to you ...
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every now and then you realize it is time to do a little spring cleaning even when it isnt spring. we have been publishing online since 2000 coinciding with the birth of our eldest son. over those eight years the face of blogschmog has changed several times. this weekend with a jumpstart from one of robert ellis great themes our site got another facelift. blogschmog is on its seventh design in ove...
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...rate. part two will address whether a person has the right hard skills read the rest of this great post here......
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il y a un an et demi je supprimais la blogroll de ce site principalement parce que sur le web les aditorialistes importaient moins que les contenus quils publiaient ici et la. mais agalement pour des raisons techniques un blog se lit via un lecteur de flux pas directement et une blogroll perd donc tout son sens dans ce contexte. depuis quelques temps vous ates plusieurs a me demander quels son...
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i recently read a great article on boxes and arrows about the myth of the fold. turning to the sidebar to learn more about the author i was struck by some of the design decisions that had been made regarding this part of the page most notably the choice to rightalign all the sidebar content.as i looked a little deeper i began to wonder how much more readable the content would be if it was leftali...
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the i.a. podcast by jeff parks of i.a. consultants and boxesandarrows podcast fame just published the second of two interviews discussing research on ethics design social media and conflict. play and download the second interview here. subscribe to the itunes and feedburner feeds for the i.a. podcast here. these podcasts are based on the designing ethical experiences series im writing for uxma...
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i think interface design the design of visible items on a page or screen is pretty well understood. whether you learn it viscerally through art school by repetition through design school or by rote through some digital design program the basics have been well understood for some centuries and apply perfectly well to print broadcast or interactive designs. interaction design is still being develop...
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every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons tiny pieces of art youll usually find in your browsers address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. favicons are important as they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a bookmark in their browser. besides favicons are just nice to look at and there are way too many sites which dont make...
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alex kirtland has written an article on designing rating systems eg. where users score from 1 to 5. to quote where would we be without rating and reputation systems these days take them away and we wouldnt know who to trust on ebay what movies to pick on netflix or what books to buy on amazon. reputation systems essentially a rating system for people also help guide us through the labyrinth of in...
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i was browsing through the articles of boxes and arrows when i came across this very interesting tutorial using flash as a prototype tool. definitely worth a read if you are tired of using visio or some other tool.......
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alex kirtland and i have an article published in the online web design magazine boxes and arrows about how to design online reputation and rating systems. check it out here. permalink no comments yet bookmarkshare posted in design markets reputation systems also on 26econ econ blog ranking econ blogs search engine resources consulting services......
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someone asked me recently how many items were too many to have in a navigation bar on a website. of course there is no definitive answer to this and please dont ever believe it if someone tells you 72 the research behind that is completely irrelevant. i dont think ive seen reliable research on this and if i did i think id be suspicious of it anyway as the complexity of the issue isnt about number...
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here are the websites i bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days card sorting a definitive guide boxes and arrows the design behind the design card sorting is a great reliable inexpensive method for finding patterns in how users would expect to find content or functionality. ctwig cocoon two idiots guide it is intended to provide a quick guide for other new users of c2 s...
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the i.a. podcast by jeff parks of i.a. consultants and boxesandarrows podcast fame just published the first of two interviews we recorded recently talking about ethics design social media and conflict. play and download the interview here. subscribe to the itunes and feedburner feeds for the i.a. podcast here. stay tuned for the second interview thanks jeff......
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