Great quote from ecompany:
Don’t bother chasing after these online pipe dreams. Instead,
stick to your knitting: Make sure that your HTML works right,
your webpages download in five to eight seconds or less on a
dial-up connection, and your site’s easy to navigate; and see to
it that when customers send you e-mail, they get a reply within
24 hours.
If you can do all that, you’ll be a truly leading-edge Web business.
Flash: 99% Bad (Alertbox Oct. 2000)
Mr. Nielsen, once again bashing much of the fun stuff on the web. It would piss me off, except he’s right. He does say:
None of these usability problems are inherent in Flash. You can design usable multimedia objects that comply with the guidelines and are easy to use. The problem is simply that current Flash design tends to encourage abuse.
Collaboration, Peer-to-peer, Secure, Extensible, Free, Complete published API. I just can’t get enough of this thing.
Nielsen again, providing more arguments for an iterative development cycle.
Moving WebWord > Call Them Demons, Call Them Heroes
On how every word on your site makes, or can make, a significant difference in shaping the user experience. “Every word transfers energy.”
Moving WebWord > Trouble in Paradise: Problems Facing the Usability Community
There are problems with usability and the usability community. […]In my opinion, usability as we know it is dying. It is outdated, misunderstood, and it faces very serious challenges in web and software development circles.
Ouch.
AskTog: Urbanpixel - Visible Navigation for the Web
Tog seems to dig urbanpixel. I think I do too. Visual 2D navigation of the web. Spatially relevant web site placement. Neato!
AskTog: Why is Apple in Trouble?
Tog on Apple’s latest troubles. He’s not giving up, but he’s not very enthusiastic either.
Redherring.com - MASTERING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Relationships on the web. No, not dating services, but relationships between people, groups of people and business.
Better than a chain letter, meaner than a Beanie Baby, funnier than a Pet Rock… PipChips are the latest craze to sweep selected portions of the American midwest (we’re growing, but slowly). It’s everything you could expect from a little plastic disk with a cartoon face on it.
It’s all about the trip.