Participatory design is an approach to design that attempts to actively involve end users in the design process to help ensure that the product designed meets their needs and is usable. This approach is focused on process and is not a design style. For some, this approach has a political dimension of user empowerment and democratisation. For others, it is seen as a way of abrogating design responsibility and innovation by designers.
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What is web publishing? Putting together a web site is a unique blend of publishing, user interface design, and technology. The three main activities of visiting a web site are reading text, viewing images, and interacting with its interface.
Karp, Tony. TLC Systems (2002). Design>Web Design
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Introduces the principles and techniques of the art director, and shows how art directional concepts can shape memorable user experiences.
Hay, Stephen. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design
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Art from Turmoil: Stock Promotions Blitz Metaculture 
The stock catalog, a tool that was once used for research, has become a funky book that you look through for ideas and inspiration.
Shinn, Nick. ShinnType (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Publishing
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Site visitors crave the sense that someone is there, within and behind your Web pages, your emails and newsletters.
Usborne, Nick. ClickZ (2001). Articles>Web Design>Writing
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Site visitors crave the sense that someone is there, within and behind your Web pages, your emails and newsletters. Dealing with the bare technology of online interactions is a cold experience for many, or even most of us. It makes us feel anxious. Technology isn't warm. It has no heart. It neither understands us, nor cares for us. For many Web sites, whether for businesses or organizations, we simply plug in and play the bare technology - the super-duper means of information delivery. All the site visitor sees and feels is the design, the interface, the links and the clicks. The experience is about as warm and human as banking with an ATM machine.
Spool, Jared M. User Interface Engineering (2002). Articles>Web Design>User Centered Design>Usability
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The Art of Blogging, Part 1: Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications
Innovations build on existing perceptions and structures - at least until the new ideas are fully manifested. Then, the innovation discards the shackles of the old model and stands on its own merits and strengths. The development of video is often used to support this phenomenon. Video was initially used only to tape existing live stage performances - a new concept built on the perceptional structure of the existing. True innovation in this medium did not occur until someone recognized the uniqueness of video, and the limitations of live stage shows.
Siemens, George. elearnspace (2002). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
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The Art of Blogging, Part 2: Getting Started, "How To", Tools, Resources
The best way to learn to blog is to blog. Fortunately, getting started is fairly simple. Three main options exist: hosted, remote server, and desktop.
Siemens, George. elearnspace (2002). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
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The Art of Electronic Publishing
This book is a complete birdseye view of the World Wide Web, Internet, and the technologies involved in creating electronic publications from them. This book provides you with background information and practical guidance on how to surf, view, and publish material for the Web, as well as on paper. The explosion of activity surrounding the Internet and the World Wide Web requires a sane, non-hyped guide to help you navigate the sometimes treacherous waters.
Ressler, Sandy. Prentice-Hall (2000). Books>Web Design>Publishing>Online
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The Art of Indexing and Some Fallacies of its Automation 
The phrase 'information storage and retrieval,' coined in the fifties - when computers were first harnessed to the twin tasks of recording verbal communication and finding it again on demand - is somewhat misleading and it is also missing a vital element. The misleading part is that many people seem to believe that these tasks can only be performed by machines. Yet information has been stored on stone tablets, papyrus rolls and in books for thousands of years and it has also been found when needed. The missing part is that, in order for stored information to be retrievable - whether manually or by machine - an intermediate operation is of crucial importance: the stored information must be indexed.
Wellisch, Hans H. CPD (1992). Articles>Indexing>Information Design
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Walinskas provides several tips for creating readable and informative e-zines.
Walinskas, Karl. Intercom (2000). Design>Publishing>Online
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The Art of Topless Dancing and Information Design
Creating a web site makes for all sorts of strange working relationships. What does an information designer have to do to get a little cooperation?
Warren, Denice. List Apart, A (2001). Design>Information Design>Web Design
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The Art of User Interface Prototyping
It takes a certain craft to know how and when to build prototypes of web designs or software designs. This primer of prototyping explains when and how to build them.
Berkun, Scott. UIWeb (2000). Design>User Interface>Usability
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The virtues of simplicity are well-known among experienced systems designers. And many of the things that are 'right' with simpler software systems are also applicable to Web pages and site designs.
Sullivan, Terry. All Things Web (1996). Articles>Usability>Web Design
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Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
AIfIA is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Founded in 2002, AIfIA has over 400 members in 30 countries.
AIfIA. Organizations>Information Design>Human Computer Interaction
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ASIS Special Interest Group: Information Architecture
SIG-IA is guided by an ethic of inclusion, in which the full range of participants - from those who are self-taught to those with considerable academic training or practical experience - feel comfortable helping one another develop the professional practice of information architecture.
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Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.
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Ask Jeeves and Urinating Canines
First, there were butlers. Then, there were search engines. Today, there is Jeeves, a hybrid less expensive than the former and more user-friendly than the latter. Others have followed in Jeeves's footsteps, but his loafers are hard to fill. While he is no longer an original, he continues to be invaluable for net-novices and net-addicts alike.
Berkowitz, David. WebWord (2000). Articles>Web Design>Search
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Have you ever tried to place an order with a salesperson or waiter and found yourself answering the same questions over and over again? There are many sites on the Web where this occurs, such as those with product locator searches, shopping carts, and other functions that are supposed to make Web sites more interactive.
Allen, Cliff. Allen.com (2003). Design>Web Design>Personalization
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Asking for Usernames and Passwords on the Web
The Web has moved beyond purely open content available to all. We now want to use it to collect and provide information that we want to restrict in some way – to members, or to staff, or because it is sensitive or personal data. One common method of restricting access is to ask users to enter username and password. Even this simple combination can be a source of annoyance and frustration to users but it does not have to be. This paper compares options for setting up and maintaining usernames and passwords, and also shows how to design a screen so that users are guided easily to the correct choices.
Miller, Sarah and Caroline Jarrett. STC Proceedings (2002). Design>Web Design>Security
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Students learn by actively interacting with the material, and by interacting with each other along the way.
Doumont, Jean-luc. Intercom (2004). Articles>Education>Instructional Design
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Unlike JavaScript the use of ASP doesn't depend on someone's browser supporting it) is very difficult to learn, and this has come from the early languages like Perl, which are difficult to write and even more difficult to debug. Over the past few years two new languages have emerged, PHP and ASP. These are easy enough for even the novice webmaser to learn.
Gowans, David. Free Webmaster Help (2001). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>ASP
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ASP, PHP, Java, JavaScript, XML, ActiveX, SQL... Mais de Quoi Parle T-on Vraiment? 
Ces termes affreux sont très à la mode dans le milieu du développement de solutions/sites Internet ou Intranet. On ne peut pas discuter 2 minutes avec un développeur sans qu'il en prononce un ou deux (voire tous si il est dans la catégorie 'Développeur souffrant de gros problèmes de communication avec les non-développeurs' !). Pour dire la vérité, il est même parfois difficile de s'y retrouver quand on est de la partie... C'est pour cela que nous allons essayer ici de définir simplement ces termes et de les regrouper par grandes familles. Ces termes caractérisent les différents langages que l'on peut utiliser pour le développement d'applications web. Ils se séparent en deux grandes familles selon que les scripts (programmes) s'exécutent sur le serveur ou sur le client.
Redtech (2002). (French) Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP
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By utilizing breadcrumb navigation you allow your viewers to easily trace their path taken to the current location and back track if necessary.
Angeletti, Mark. Search-This (2005). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes
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The Assault on Arafat's Compound
An illustrative diagram to complement a news story from April 2002.
Gabel, Ed. VisualJournalism (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Isometric
#30670
Assemble a Cross-Platform Firefox Extension
XUL is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser extensions or even stand-alone applications. Discover how to build powerful, flexible Mozilla browser extensions that go beyond the capabilities of other tools like embedded scripting languages or CGI--because they're built right into the user's browser.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2007). Articles>Information Design>XML>Web Browsers
