Posted in General Thoughts on May 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
So as I’ve probably told you before we are in the middle of a massive website redesign and UH Libraries. This effort is one which attempts to tackle both back-end and front-end problems of our site in one massive swoop. When I started this process the sheer scope of the back-end problems scared me. There [...]
Posted in CSS on Apr 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
I spent part of today writing print stylesheets for our Movable Type weblogs and my own personal blog. One thing I think is crucial with print stylesheets is that less is more. This means a couple of things when you are trying to optimize the page for print. First, that stylesheet you have been using [...]
Posted in AJAX, General Thoughts, Web 2.0 on Mar 28th, 2006 5 Comments »
Walt Crawford started a discussion about AJAX and breaking the back button that I want to follow up on here. First let me say that people need to note that AJAX isn’t the first web technology to “break the back button”. Java applets, Flash, some DHTML, and other embedded media objects also “break the back [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
by David King (http://www.davidleeking.com)
Experience User Experience Design
The Elements of User Experience :User Centered Design for the Web - Jeese James Garrett
user centered design for the web
sounds corporate-y but works for any website
Five elements of User Experience Design
Strategy (planning)
corporate objectives
user needs
Scope (figuring out what’s needed and who will do the work)
functional specification
content requirements
Structure (fill in the [...]
