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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Function-behaviour-structure for website design
So, you have decided to create your own website. You have read all the latest articles, bought a domain name, and now you are staring at your holding page wondering what your website is for and what you should put … Continue reading
Digital Web: Anyone for a game of cards?
Card sorts are an easy way to see if the current architecture of a website is working. They encourage users to volunteer all sorts of information that wouldn’t necessary come out in a standard one-on-one interviewing session. Card sorts can … Continue reading
Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?
When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates when the young girl, Lex, looks at a computer screen and says: “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.” At … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, direct manipulation, future, jules verne, jurassic park, linux, minority report, Musings, science fiction, tom cruise, unix
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