Transparent New York is lovely and amazing. (via Lesbarkeit von Strukturen)
Can we do this with site mapping? Should we?
addendum
After playing with it for awhile, I grew used to its tremendous beauty and because frustrated with it for its lack of information. To be beautiful (I suspect) some data was removed that would make it easier to understand. In particular, Animated Manhattan frustrated me-- I felt there was knowledge just out of reach of my comprehension, and a tiny bit more explanation of what I was looking at, a referencing grid perhaps, would make all the difference.
It's foggy, and I'm going to trek downtown to register my MG midget. So a light gleanings before I go try to find winter clothes so I can drive a convertible in San Francisco in June... did Mark Twain really say "The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco"?
New Jakob and this time I have to agree. PDF's make me crazy.
Useit.Com: Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading.
"Forcing users to browse PDF documents can reduce your website's usability by about 300% relative to HTML pages. This is my rough estimate, based on watching users perform similar tasks on a variety of sites that used either PDF or regular Web pages."
Now read "Why is user centered design so important" and you'll both learn and experience the problems with PDF's.
I have a strange passion for intentionally horizontally scrolling sites. However, I feel something is missing on this one. oh, I know. a scrollbar.
http://www.commando.se/
Massachusetts
The Information Design certificate program and Bentley’s Design and Usability center are pleased to offer the Usability Boot Camp, an intensive five-day experience with leading authorities on usability and user experience, July 9 through 13, 2001. Reserve the dates as registration is limited. Check back for details.
also check out their information design program
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Seattle
Don't go to WebDesign World to see Zeldman, Veen or Spool! Go to see me yap yap yap about user-centered design processes. (okay, you can catch them talking too...)
"It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it: Jacobson studies "adult" sites to see what they can tell us about the future of web content. His conclusions are not pretty."
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Easing Access to Your Homebound PC
"Hooking into your home or office PC from a remote location got a lot easier last month with the opening of GoToMyPC, an ingenious Web site created by ExpertCity that lets you channel the spirit of your computer at home onto the screen of any Internet-connected machine in the world. "
davezilla has started the bloggers who are calling it quits
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This is a poem made up entirely of actual quotes from
George W. Bush. The quotes have been arranged only for
aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post writer Richard
Thompson. Too good not to share, especially during
National Poetry Month...
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize Society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!