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Interesting news: Bruce Tognazzini ("Tog") has joined Nielsen Norman Group. Tog is the guru of humanizing computer interfaces, and wrote the first version of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines in 1978. He has an interesting website where he answers HCI/UI questions http://www.asktog.com/ Jakob Neilson is (if you don't know) the web usability guru and his site is here http://www.useit.com Don Norman is the proponent of bringing in human concerns into all design, computers and the web especially. A publication list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Norman%2C%20Donald%20A./104-0033573-7152776 If you haven't read "The Design of Everyday things" go do it now. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/o/qid=964451227/sr=2-1/104-0033573-7152776 This makes for a f*ckign smart consulting company. The latest issue of JaKob's bi-weekly column is up, and it's a beaut. Titled "The End of Web Design" he says "Websites must tone down their individual appearance and distinct design in all ways" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000723.html This article brings up a few very interesting points, many of which I suspect my readership will disagree with, so I've signed up for a free message board. http://pub19.ezboard.com/feleganthackiadiscussionsgleaningsdiscussions here you can discuss/argue/opine to your hearts content. Hopefully I've eventually move these discussions onto the site, but that requires time to mess with CGI, which I don't have right now. sigh. I will try to make it look prettier.... isn't this somehow ironic? The Word of the Day for today, Mon Jul 24, is: **** Friday **** You can hear all the translations spoken at: http://www.travlang.com/wordofday/56.html The translations you requested of this are: French: vendredi Accents are represented by ' (acute) ` (grave) " (umlaut), ^ (circumflex), and * (ring) ................................................................ sick of me? Go to www.eleganthack.com and unsubscribe. Can't get enough of me? Go there and read my 'blog. Talk to me: gleanings-comments@eleganthack.com |