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Friday, April 16th, 2004
Summary: Recent studies have shown that while the use of breadcrumb trails to navigate a website can be helpful, few users choose to utilize this method of navigation. This study investigates the effects of “mere exposure” and training on breadcrumb usage. Findings indicate that brief training on the benefits of breadcrumb usage resulted in more […]
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Friday, April 16th, 2004
Good Experience – The Page Paradigm Like another thought about bread crumbs wherein it is posited that people who use them tend to be the regular users of the site and not the visitors who are there just looking for something. Another thing I noticed and emphasized in a page design (currently re-worked by someone […]
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Friday, April 16th, 2004
AT&T Feed Room — Love the enormous grid and columns representing a topic area. This is sort of gutsy but maybe a feed room is meant to be just this straight forward. It works. But gosh RealPlayer is a stinky thing. Rueturs has the same layout. And their site works with Safari better.
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Friday, April 16th, 2004
This place has a lot of schools under their belt. I like the graphic design overall with reservations about details. Maybe more later — this is mostly a link spam. SilverPoint, Web Solutions for Schools
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Monday, April 5th, 2004
Rolex Awards for Enterprise An amazing
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Sunday, March 28th, 2004
Very interesting and probably the first time this has raised its head in the wild. Village of Pittsford web site It does extend the reading area while allowing for a glory shot. Would be very interesting to determine if anyone uses the feature..
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties
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Thursday, March 11th, 2004
peterme.com: The Oversimplification of Mark Hurst The Oversimplification of Mark Hurst In his latest “Good Experience” email, Mark offers a series of notes for successfully addressing what he refers to as “the page paradigm.” Unfortunately, he’s misguided as often as he’s on target. Mark is basically correct when he states: – – – – – […]
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Thursday, March 11th, 2004
Web Design Practices | Home Some basics.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2004
UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction
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