July 3rd, 2008 | Published in Cross Platform, Design, I.A., Interface, Miscellaneous, Tools, UCXD
Thanks Yahoo! for making these handy wireframe stencils available in formats that support the standard tools for building wire frames and prototypes. I discovered them while browsing through Graffletopia.
Even more kind is that Yahoo! released these stencils under a Creative Commons (share, remix, attribution) license.
April 6th, 2007 | Published in I.A., Interface, Science, UCXD
My friend David Fu showed me this stunning video a few months ago. I just now re-discovered it on YouTube and couldn’t help but to post it here for others to discover. Apple has patented this technology for use in their iPhone. I imagine it won’t be long before we will see this technology show up on workstations, and more. I can’t wait!
February 21st, 2006 | Published in Accessibility, I.A., Miscellaneous, UCXD
As posted at The Web Standards Project. Target is being sued by the National Federation for the Bline for not making their site accessible. Accessibility is really quite easy and inexpensive if you simply commit up front to adhering to reasonable accessibility standards. The argument that it is too expensive just doesn’t fly anymore. Granted, if you built a large scale site with no intention of supporting accessibility a retrofit could cause a budget overrun. When you consider that SEO is an integral part of any marketing strategy and that search engines are essentialy “blind” users the resistance to accessibility simply doesn’t make any business sense.
“The US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has brought legal action against Target corporation (a major US-based discount retailer which operates more than 1,300 stores in 47 states) because their web site is not accessible. The NFB has raised the issue with Target Corporation before…â€
October 27th, 2005 | Published in UCXD
I’ve been searching for ways to automate the creation of sitemaps with GraphViz and I came accross Pathalizer, a tool that uses GraphViz and Apache/IIS web logs to generate graphical maps of user paths through a site. Not exactly what I was looking for but something worth coming back and exploring later.
Update (June 1, 2006): I downloaded Pathalizer and ran some of my apache logs through it. I’ve been experimenting with the filtering options and how many edges to allow. No major insights yet. View a larger image of Pathalizer’s output.