Web Design Issues When Searching for Information in a Small Screen Display  

In this paper, we report preliminary findings from an experimental study in which twenty-eight users answered questions by performing strategic information searches on web pages. Pages, which varied in length from 100 to 850 words, were displayed on either a standard, desktop monitor (full-sized) or a palm handheld interface (small-screen). Overall, users took more time to perform the tasks on the small screen interface, with the break in efficacy appearing between 225 and 350 word-lengths. Finally, contrary to our hypothesis, participants were similarly accurate across conditions.

Kim, Loel and Michael J. Albers. ACM SIGDOC (2001). Presentations>Web Design>Wireless Web>PDA

Web Design Standards: 10 Organizational Secrets

The practices and processes that facilitate the organizational development needed to create a successful Web design standard.

Schaffer, Eric M. Human Factors International (2006). Presentations>Web Design>Style Guides>Workplace

The Web Now: Social  

A presentation about online community and experience design in modern web design.

Wroblewski, Luke. LukeW Interface Designs (2005). Presentations>Web Design>User Experience

Web Usability for the Rest of Us

Web developers, designers and community managers have a more challenging role than ever before. They are designing for and facilitating important online activities like communication, collaboration, sharing and socializing. However, it's hard to know how users are really interacting with websites. They can't easily observe users in their natural environments interacting with these systems. How many web developers actually get a focus group of target users in a room and watch them navigate their websites? We're obsessed with helping developers build better user experiences on the web, and we knew there had to be a better, cheaper and faster way than traditional usability testing.

Charland, Andre. SlideShare (2007). Presentations>Web Design>Usability

Web-Based Alternatives to PowerPoint

Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can’t yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now.

Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2006). Articles>Presentations>Software>Web Design

Web-Based Prototyping for User Sessions: Medium-Fidelity Prototyping  

Paper (low-fidelity) prototyping is a popular and useful method for gathering input on the usefulness of a user interface while the sofnvare product is in the early stages of development. Coded user intetiace (high-fidelity) prototypes givepotential users a better idea of the$nished product, but can be time consuming to create and diflcult to change. Using HTML (medium-fidelity) prototupes, we can quickly code polished user interface prototypes to use in customer sessions. These web-basedprototypes, which combine the strengths of both low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototvpes, can also be easily modtBed during the customer session, allowing customers to see and interact with their proposed changes.

Leone, Paul, Dana L. Gillihan and Thyra L. Rauch. STC Proceedings (1997). Presentations>Web Design>Usability

WebWorks Publisher 6 Tips and Tricks  

A presentation covering some techniques for using WebWork Publisher to produce online versions of FrameMaker documentation.

Knopf, David A. Knopf Online (2001). Presentations>Software>Web Design>Adobe FrameMaker

What If You Hosted a Web Site and Nobody Came?  

As a technical communicator you know how to create material for your audience, but how do you get your audience to read what you wrote? By integrating yourself into the everyday life of the organization, you’ll discover creative ways to get the information to the people and to get the people to the information. Transform yourself into a detective, a teacher and a public relations expert, and you’ll meet your company’s business needs while you expand your own professional horizons.

Dyen, Natalie Zellat. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Web Design

XML Basics and FAQ  

The World Wide Web Consortium, the standards body for all web technologies, describes XML as a “method for putting structured data in a text file” (See www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points.) That’s accurate, but doesn’t really describe what XML is. This session will attempt to cover the basics of what XML is and answer the questions most frequently asked by technical writers.

Manning, Steve. STC Proceedings (2001). Presentations>Web Design>XML

Exploiting Web Tools to Make HTML Documents Accessible

More accessible documents through authoring tool supports. Exploit mainstream tools for easier information retrieval and document manipulation.

Treviranus, Jutta and Jan Richards . University of Toronto (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility>Software

The Art of the Podcast

A PowerPoint of a presentation about podcasting, and the things to consider when planning to produce an audio podcast.

Johnson, Tom H. STC Proceedings (2008). Presentations>Web Design>Posters>Podcasting

Writing as an Asynchronous Conversation

Conversation is a theme that flows through all the work we do as technical communicators. Every use of your web site is a conversation started by a busy site visitor.

Redish, Janice C. 'Ginny'. STC Proceedings (2008). Presentations>Web Design>Writing>User Centered Design

Page Source Order and Accessibility

In this presentation, the authors report on a survey and testing with screen reader users designed to determine how the placement of navigation in the source order (before or after content) affects accessibility.

Hudson, Roger and Russ Weakley. OzeWAI (2005). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility

The Beauty and Business of CSS

Building designs with CSS is no longer a fringe activity practiced by standards geeks and early-adopters. Creative pioneers and highly skilled designers are bringing CSS to the mainstream. The explosion in popularity is ushering in a new wave of possibilities for web design. CSS provides greater design control, allows more flexibility, and enables sites to become attractive, accessible, and faster-loading, all at the same time.

Bowman, Douglas. Stop Design (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Standards>CSS

Pushing Your Limits (and Other Secrets of Designing with CSS)

What do you do when you feel like you’ve hit a brick wall? When it seems your creativity is limited by how much CSS you know how to beat into submission? How do you resist the temptation to give it all up and go back to tables? Why does it feel like the pros are constantly inventing new techniques each week, when you’re still struggling to keep up with the stuff you read about last year? Understanding how and where CSS fits into the design process is key to knowing how to push your own limits. Reviewing the principles of existing techniques — and learning why or how they came about — can extend your capabilities and help you gain confidence in solving future problems on your own.

Bowman, Douglas. Stop Design (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Standards>CSS

Location, Path and Attribute Breadcrumbs

Research on breadcrumbs as presented at the 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit. Three types of breadcrumbs used on the Web are defined, examples given, and a set of research questions is presented.

Instone, Keith. Instone.org (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Information Design

Faceted Browsing

Discover what "faceted browsing" is and other Web-focused terms for old ideas.

Instone, Keith. Instone.org (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Metadata

Information Architecture and Personalized User Experiences  

The information architect focuses on how things are structured within the user experience: looks “up” to the user interface – how the navigation and page layout convey the structure; looks “down” to the content management to make sure it can enable to right user experience.

Instone, Keith. Instone.org (2003). Presentations>Web Design>Information Design>Personalization

Deployment Scenarios for Web Service Discovery

Several Web service discovery technologies including Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MEX) and other lightweight protocols and techniques can be used for particular scenarios. This presentation will discuss the status of each of these technologies and how they relate to the Web services stack as well as which technology should be employed to solve certain types of Web service integration problems.

Hately, Andrew. IDEAlliance (2004). Presentations>Web Design>XML

The Importance for Customer Facing Websites

Talks about the importance of usability for businesses communicating with both new and potential customers. Featuring a case study of how a company improved their revenue-per-employee by 95% over a 2 year period, along with some attendee participation, this 17 minute presentation touches on a wide variety of websites and activities, such as lead generation sites, information portals and search engine marketing campaigns. Most significantly conversion rates for e-commerce websites are discussed, where usability can have a remarkable affect on a companies bottom line, if the right decisions are made in making improvements.

Rouke, Paul. Vimeo (2009). Presentations>Usability>Web Design>Video

To Hell with Web Safe Fonts

Get creative. Expand your font choice. Mix fonts. Use weights, font-styles, small-caps. Mind variations in size and legibility.

Schoors, Lennart. SlideShare (2009). Presentations>Web Design>Typography>Fonts

Intranets and Business Impact

People are doing business differently today; the intranet of yesterday is not sustainable. Make your intranet work the way people work.

McConnell, Jane. Predicate (2009). Presentations>Web Design>Intranets>Social Networking

Search Engine Optimization Through Accessibility: How Designing Accessible Websites Leads to Automatic SEO

This presentation describes how creating an accessible website takes care of its (organic) search engine optimization to a very appreciable extent taking reference from the WCAG 2.0 working draft and the Google webmaster guidelines.This presentation was created and presented by Abhay Rautela to the Sapient creative community at the New Delhi office in February 2007.

Rautela, Abhay. Cone Trees (2007). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility>Search Engine Optimization

Designing with Psychology in Mind: 5 Principles from Psychology that we Can Use to Inform Web Design  

When we as web designers create screens we are defi

Porter, Joshua. Bokardo.com (2009). Presentations>Web Design>User Experience>Cognitive Psychology

Keyboard Accessibility: Basic Steps Towards a More Usable and Accessible Site

A presentation which shows examples of best-practices in web design for accessibility to users who interact with sites exclusively through the keyboard.

Lauke, Patrick H. Splintered (2009). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility