If you haven’t yet checked out del.icio.us, you should. Here’s why.

Continue Reading: A Self-Referential Demonstration of the Power of the Del.icio.us Folksonomy

A short, interesting article by Maria Acosta.

Continue Reading: Better Graphic Design by Maria Acosta

If you were to walk into a fast-content restaurant on the Web (as opposed to a fast-food restaurant in the physical world) and were asked you if you wanted “style” with that, what would you say? In other words, given the choice between minimally-styled content and heavily-styled content, which would you choose to use?
Before you [...]

Continue Reading: You want Styles with That?

How your favorite blog posts lead directly to Kurt Vonnegut commenting on blogging!

Continue Reading: Favorite Blog Entry: Follow-up

I’ve got a question for you: what’s your favorite blog entry? What’s the one entry (from any blog) that you really remember, that perhaps was the start of your blog reading? Post your answer (and a link) in the comments below.
This isn’t a random question: I have a theory about this. My theory is [...]

Continue Reading: What’s Your Favorite Blog Entry?

As many of you know by now, I’m greatly interested in how content aggregators are changing our behaviors on the Web (and thus our design). This week I step back a bit and take a closer look at the technology behind it all: RSS.
Known for its explosive growth and its inherent spam-proofness, RSS technology is [...]

Continue Reading: Why RSS is Coming to an Interface Near You

In which I give several reasons why the usability vs. design debate is the wrong debate, and why we should be looking at why usability folks don’t focus on visuals when designing, like many designers do.

Continue Reading: Why Usability Folks Don’t Focus on Visuals in Design

Two years ago the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab produced a study showing that visuals are very important to some users when judging the credibility of web sites. Since then, some designers have used that study as a way to back up the importance of focusing on “visuals” while designing. I’m not so sure…

Continue Reading: How does Web Credibility Relate to Web Design?

There is one moment in design that is more critical than any other. It is a moment that determines nothing less than the fate of the design. A moment that, if taken advantage of, could lead to true innovation. If not taken advantage of it only leads to innovative excuses.
That moment is the moment that [...]

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This is a follow-up to my article Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content on Digital Web magazine.

Continue Reading: More on Content Aggregators