A facelift I can probably stay with
I’ve always been a little schizophrenic about the designs I slap on my web sites. I really like mucking around with XHTML and CSS, but don’t have time to play with it in my spare time anymore …
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Don Norman from TED2003 on design
What makes for good design? Don Norman has an interesting take on what design is. For him, design works (or at least it did in 2003) on three elements – visceral, behavioural and emotional …
Low Fi Concept Demos
Originally got this at Konigi. Very effective.
Ridiculous rollovers add nothing
Sometimes a nifty CSS or Javascript trick to provide contextual information or a useful visual cue to your users adds a real touch. The web is full of good examples. Below are not three of them. Sure, Web Designer Wall has some good tutorials, the requisite colourful background, drop shadows and is a nice looking visual piece of art. It seems to suffer from a general lack of focus that often happens (at least for me) when everything is colourful. However, that’s not what I’m driving at here …
Siftables, a brilliant interface
I already bookmarked and tweeted this, brought to my attention by one of my RRU cohort. However, as I thought about the educational implications for such a usable human-computer interface, the possibilities seem only limited by programming and concept …