Usability Design
by Garth A. Buchholz | DigitalPractices Media Inc. ISSN 1920-1893
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Web professionals often talk about the challenges of repurposing content, creating Web-friendly content, and adapting content for the Web. This chart outlines some of the differences in a succinct way. Do you have any other points you’d add to this chart? Let me know and I’ll credit your ideas on this blog if you want. Download PDF (72 Kb): [...]

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When developing content, all design elements must be considered: editorial, interactive, visual and accessible. This chart graphically illustrates and elaborates on each of four elements:

Categories: content, contentology, customer experience, digital practices, information design, interaction design, mal practices, navigation design, reference, usability, web analytics, web design, web strategy | 1 Comment

With apologies to Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten, here are the Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design, from someone who has worked as a Web Manager and Web Strategist for many years: 1. The Web Strategy doesn’t follow the Business Strategy. Whether you’re designing for a Fortune 1000 corporation, a SOHO business, a government agency or [...]

Categories: accessibility + ud, content, content management, contentology, convergent media, info management, information design, information science, information technology, interaction design, multimedia, new media, rich media, static media | Comments Off

 A Manifesto of Contentology, vs 1.1         What does “Contentology” mean? In this Manifesto, Contentology is a coined word that, in its strictest etymology, could mean “the science of content” or “the study of content”. The word “Contentology” is supposed to make people stop and think for a moment, and if it sounds absurd, [...]

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Every day millions of Internet searchers use Google or other high-speed search engines such as MSN Search. Are all these Googlers just doing the “search lurch”? Try a few key words, click a few search results, and maybe they’ll find what they’re looking for in a few seconds. Or maybe they’ll just give up and [...]