CURRENT ISSUE

Past issues

ISSUE 22 - Q2 2007
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (3rd edition)

ISSUE 21 - Q1 2007
The dark side of prototyping

ISSUE 20 - Q4 2006
Prototyping beyond the sunshine scenario

ISSUE 19 - Q3 2006
Hand-crafting prototypes in Visio

ISSUE 18 - Q2 2006
Review of Axure RP Pro

ISSUE 17 - Q1 2006
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (2nd edition)

ISSUE 16 - Q4 2005
The promised land of prototyping

ISSUE 15 - Q3 2005
Balancing fidelity in prototyping

ISSUE 14 - Q2 2005
Designing intersection flows

ISSUE 13 - Q1 2005
Navigation blindness

ISSUE 12 - Q4 2004
Server side usability

ISSUE 11 - Q3 2004
GoLive - the interaction designer's hammer and nail

ISSUE 10 - Q2 2004
Use Cases and interaction design

ISSUE 09 - Q1 2004
Accessibility humanized

ISSUE 08 - Q4 2003
Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

ISSUE 07 - Q3 2003
Personas and the customer decision-making process

ISSUE 06 - Q2 2003
Supporting customers' decision-making process

ISSUE 05 - Q1 2003
Business-centred design

ISSUE 04 - Q4 2002
InfoRomanticism on the Internet

ISSUE 03 - Q3 2002
Results from a survey of web prototyping tools usage
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun

ISSUE 02 - Q2 2002
The Bottom-line of Prototyping and Usability Testing

ISSUE 01 - Q1 2002
Competitive Usability

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RECENT posts

User's read only 20% of what we write

Based on studies of user's browsing habits, Jakob Nielsen estimates that people, on average, read 20% of a web page.

Links:

• How Little Do Users Read? 

Henrik Olsen - May 07, 2008

See also: Research (113)  Text (23) 

Book: Web Form Design

Luke Wroblewski's book about designing effective and engaging web forms is available for purchase. Luke has been writing a great deal about form design at his blog and I'm sure his book is worth a read.

Links:

• The book Web Form Design 
• Luke's blog entries on form design 

Henrik Olsen - May 05, 2008

See also: Books (45)  Forms (23) 

Audio from presentations at the 2008 AI Summit

Boxes and Arrows has published audio and slides from the 2008 IA Summit. Speakers include Jared Spool questioning whether user-centered design produces user-friendly designs and Peter Morville on how to design better search interfaces and applications.

Links:

• Day 1 
• Day 2 
• Day 3 

Henrik Olsen - May 03, 2008

See also: Talks and presentations (17)  Audio and video (44) 

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