Category Archives: user experience

Peter Morville @ NASIG

Posted on June 5, 2009 by abigail

Liveblogging Peter Morville keynote at NASIG Information Architecture – Combination of organization, labeling, search, navigation – art + science.  Can learn from related fields like HCI but not sufficient. Still emerging discipline.  Done by many people who don’t know the … Continue reading →

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Writing for the Web

Posted on March 17, 2007 by abigail

If you write for the web, you may find this tip sheet helpful. It discusses making your page easily scannable, optimizing for search engines, and (my favorite, as you may know) good reasons not to write “click here.”

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Passing Time with the AADL Catalog

Posted on January 22, 2007 by abigail

I’m in the Atlanta airport for a good while, waiting for my flight to San Antonio for Open Repositories, so I shelled out for wifi access. And now that I have, I’m going to find things to do online until … Continue reading →

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Signing up, Signing in, and Searching

Posted on January 9, 2007 by abigail

I finally started cataloging my books on LibraryThing over the holiday break. Two things struck me immediately. 1. Library Thing is better than any other website I have ever used. Why? The sign-up process is identical to the sign-in process! … Continue reading →

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User Experience and Choice

Posted on November 28, 2006 by abigail

One of my favorite blogs right now is Creating Passionate Users, by authors of O’Reilly’s Head First series. Yesterday’s post led me to Choice = Headaches at the blog Joel on Software. The entry is about the obscene number of … Continue reading →

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