http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog Jen Vetterli's Business and Technology Links Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:20:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 GUUUI - Designing intersection flows There is a potential problem if forms are involved and users have to choose between this and that in order to proceed. We should be alert if two or more forms are present on the same page, i.e. if there are two or more sets of ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/05/18/designing-intersection-flows/ grokdotcom – So What Exactly is a Call to Action? The most obvious Calls to Action are ones that say “Add to Shopping Cart” or “Buy Now” or “Subscribe.” A straight-forward “do this.” At the most basic level, they tell the visitor what she can accomplish on that page, and encourage ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/05/18/calls-to-action/ Functioning Form - Web Application Solutions: A Designer’s Guide Web Application Solutions is a guide that helps designers, product managers, and business owners evaluate some of the most popular Web application presentation layer solutions available today. We compare each solution through consistent criteria (deployment & reach, user interactions, processing, interface components ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/overview-of-web-application-solutions/ greenonions.com – Representing Data in Wireframes (PDF, 159 kb) A poster from the ASIS&T 2005 Information Architecture Summit, outlining the different kinds of sample data you can use in wireframes: actual – real data; provides most accurate view of how information will appear; may also be distracting, particulalry if the data changes ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/representing-data-in-wireframes/ Usability News - Caroline’s Corner - Long Forms: Scroll or Tab? basic rule of thumb: one form = one page if that’s not feasible: one topic = one page scrolling is permissible – ideally, keep it within two screens (this will also fit nicely on letter-size paper if the user wants to print ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/designing-long-web-forms/ Apologies once again for the lack of posts over the last several days. I’ve been having some ISP trouble, which will take a few more days (so I’m told) to resolve. With any luck, there’ll be new content up here sometime early next week. http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/04/19/technical-difficulties/ In response to my previous post, a friend sent me this link: Cultronix - The Conceptual Space of Collage Collage is a critical paradigm of the information age because it opens the range of possibilities through which we interpret information artifacts. Cut and paste enables semiotic construction that simultaneously leverages and detourns ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/04/11/collage-as-interface/ Atomiq - Beyond the Page and Atomiq - Beyond the Page (the return) the “page” currently functions as the basic presentation and organizational unit – both for people browsing the web, and for people who produce content for the web however, new trends on the web are challenging and disrupting the page ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/04/08/moving-beyond-the-page-metaphor-on-the-web/ alt tags - The Content Inventory: Roadmap to a Succesful CMS Implementation when a company is setting up a content management system, there’s a tendency to focus too much on the technology and design of the CMS, and not enough on the content itself inevitably, when it comes time to populate the ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/04/07/doing-a-content-inventory/ Spotted this quick news release via kottke (a while back now – this blog post has been sitting in my “Drafts” folder for a couple weeks): EurekAlert! - How much can your mind keep track of? new research has shown that, when someone is trying to solve a new problem or do ... http://www.jenvetterli.com/blog/archives/2005/04/05/working-memory-and-magic-numbers/