User experience design is a subset of the field of experience design which pertains to the creation of the architecture and interaction models which impact a user's perception of a device or system. The scope of the field is directed at affecting 'all aspects of the user’s interaction with the product: how it is perceived, learned, and used.'
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In the age of the people-powered Web, allowing your readers to rate and review content on your site is critical. Discover just how easy it is to add rating and commenting features to a site with Ajax.
Herrington, Jack D. IBM (2007). Design>Web Design>Community Building>Ajax
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One strong suit of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) is presenting data from the server to users in a dynamic fashion. Discover several techniques that use Ajax for dynamic data display using tables, tabs, and gliders.
Herrington, Jack D. IBM (2008). Design>Web Design>Ajax
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Ajax is an awesome technology that is driving a new generation of web apps, from maps.google.com to colr.org to backpackit.com. But Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems.
Bosworth, Alex. Sourcelabs.com (2005). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>Ajax
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Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance, and developers are increasingly treating Ajax as a must-have component of their Web applications. As more code is moved client side and the network model changes, the community is responding by building more tools to address the unique performance challenges of Ajax. Examine toolsets that find and correct performance problems within your Ajax-enriched applications.
Zyp, Kristopher William. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Programming>Ajax
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Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds.
Herrington, Jack D. IBM (2006). Design>Web Design>XML>Ajax
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Ajax Tradeoffs: The Many Flavors of XML
Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and the idea is that with modern Web browsers you can, with acceptable reliability, keep a channel open to the server to pass data back and forth as your Web application is used. This contrasts with standard Web techniques that follow links, causing the entire page to load anew. Many aspects of Ajax-based development require design different decisions than traditional Web pages: How to manage the back button, how to display updated data, how often to send updates, and more. The focus for now will be on just one group of related aspects: what format should the data exchange take?
Elza, Dethe and David Mertz. IBM (2007). Design>Web Design>XML>Ajax
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Discover three Ajax data transport mechanisms (XMLHttp, script tags, and frames or iframes) and their relative strengths and weaknesses. This tutorial provides code for both the server side and the client side and explains it in detail to provide the techniques you need to put efficient Ajax controls anywhere you need them.
Herrington, Jack D. IBM (2006). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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The mission of Ajax-Tutorials.com is to create the ultimate online resource for Ajax community. Ajax-tutorials.com allows developers to quickly navigate through hundreds of best-practice tutorials, articles, resources, and other Ajax related material.
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A look at how to quantify or measure the benefits of a better user interface built with Ajax.
Charland, Andre. SlideShare (2006). Presentations>Web Design>Usability>Ajax
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Goes over a few techniques and approaches we use to create the foundation of every prototype--wireframes. In addition to serving as documentation for those working with the markup, wireframes are a great way to create screenshots and debug rendering problems that are happening during DOM manipulation. Whenever we find something looking funny during the development process, we always refer back to our wireframes to see if it’s a markup / presentation problem. If it renders right in the browser statically, then we know to look for the problem in the JavaScript or server side programming.
Hale, Kevin. Particletree (2006). Design>Web Design>DHTML>Ajax
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Ajax-Based Persistent Object Mapping
The Persevere persistent object framework brings persistent object mapping to the browser JavaScript environment. Object persistence has seen great popularity in the Java(TM) programming and Ruby worlds, and the dynamic JavaScript language is naturally well suited to mapping objects to persisted data. Persevere automates mapping and communication in Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax)-based Web applications in addition to simplifying much of the development challenge by providing a manageable data model, transparent client-server Ajax interchanges, automatic state change storage, and implicit transaction management.
Zyp, Kristopher William. IBM (2007). Design>Web Design>Ajax
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Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
If anything about current interaction design can be called 'glamorous,' it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.
Garrett, Jesse James. Adaptive Path (2005). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ajax
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AJAX: Highly Interactive Web Applications 
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX has recently been gaining attention as a way to make web applications more interactive. While it can reduce apparent latency between user interaction and application response, it can cause user interface, maintainability, and accessibility issues.
Giglio, Jason. Psychemorphic (2006). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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Ajax: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting
This article aims to give you an introduction to the foundations of remote scripting, in particular, the emerging XMLHttpRequest protocol. We'll then walk through an example application that demonstrates how to implement that protocol, while creating a usable interface.
Adams, Cameron. SitePoint (2005). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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Aktionsbündnis für Barrierefreie Informationstechnik
Im Aktionsbündnis für barrierefreie Informationstechnik (AbI) haben sich Behindertenverbände und Experten zusammengeschlossen, um die Umsetzung von Barrierefreiheit in der Informationstechnik zu unterstützen.
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The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners
ALA Production Manager Erin Lynch and the ALA staff offer a few starting points for the next generation of people who make websites.
Lynch, Erin and ALA Staff. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design
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ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers
ALA production manager Erin Lynch sifts through our archives and offers up a list of starting points for new readers.
Lynch, Erin. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design
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Alan Cooper Speaks! Impressions from BayCHI April 2002
On the second Tuesday of every month, BayCHI, the Bay Area chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction convenes. Brad Lauster shares his impressions of the discussion with Alan Cooper and the nature of Interaction Design.
Lauster, Brad. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design
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Jakob Nielsen has published 200 Alertbox columns on the Web since 1995; in addition to promoting usability, the column's readership statistics validate the practice of archiving content.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2003). Articles>Usability>Web Design
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Alignment is another way of creating associations between visual elements, which help users quickly understand the relationships of objects on a page.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>Document Design
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The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high search engine rankings.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2004). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
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All Hail Shale: Shale Isn't Struts
What Shale isn't is a shrink-wrapped, well-documented, well-tested product complete with an automated installer and a polished management interface. Now find out what it is, as Brett McLaughlin unveils this mighty -- and rightful-- heir to the legacy of Struts. In this first of a five-part series, Brett explains what Shale is, how it's different from the Struts framework, and how to install and set it up in your development environment.
McLaughlin, Brett D. IBM (2006). Articles>Web Design>Programming
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Just when you think online multimedia will never be truly accessible, someone proves you wrong. In BMW Films, Clark sees a tantalizing glimpse of a better web.
Clark, Joe. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Accessibility>Web Design>Multimedia
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Alt and Beyond: Making Web Graphics Accessible
Many developers still view graphics and accessibility as being on opposing ends of the web development scale. The truth is that including graphics in your documents does not mean your page has to be any less accessible. In fact, as we will see later in this article, graphics can be used to enhance the accessibility of a page. There are, however, a few key techniques that you can employ to ensure that you don't have to construct alternative 'Text-Only' documents. The web truly is the last frontier where we can treat all people equally with 'one size fits all' web documents. There is just a little bit extra we need to do to achieve this.
Roberts, Tim. evolt (2002). Design>Web Design>Accessibility
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Alter Table Row Background Colors Using JavaScript
Many sites that present tabular data use alternating background colors to increase the readability of that data. And as I developed a site, I realised I wanted to do that, too. The problem? In my case the table was not generated by a server side application or script of which you can find numerous examples on the Web.
Svanberg, Kennet. SitePoint (2005). Design>Web Design>CSS>DHTML
