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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About a year ago, I wrote an article, introducing a method for displaying a random image every time someone visits a web page. Administration was simple: just add or remove images from a folder on the server, and they would appear (or disappear, respectively) from the pool of random images being displayed on that page.
Benjamin, Dan. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>DHTML
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Better Invoices for Better Business
Invoices that obfuscate information, incorrectly state terms or arrive incomplete can be a massive headache for all parties. These mistakes will only delay the payment process, so it is critical you produce invoices that clearly deliver information your client will need.
Potts, Kevin. List Apart, A (2004). Design>Web Design>Forms>Usability
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Everything you wanted to know about converting from HTML to XHTML, including why you’d want to, tools that help, changes in the way browsers display XHTML pages, shortcuts, bugs, workarounds, and other tips you won’t find elsewhere.
Zeldman, Jeffrey. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Web Design>XHTML
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Better Readability for Improving the Number of Site Viewers
Web content readability is an often underestimated aspect for a web site. There are design rules for designers to follow, and there are SEO tips and tricks for SEO experts to use. But this is not all. Though beautiful designs and search engine optimization are extremely important, there are also other issues that a web marketer needs to consider in order to run the site successfully. Readability is one of them.
Stoyanova, Tsvetanka. SEOchat (2005). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Search
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Better Search Engine Design: Beyond Algorithms
Search engine accuracy is important, but convenience may be more important than squeezing the last few ounces of performance out of your system. Peter Van Dijck demonstrates simple but effective query analysis, best bets, and controlled vocabularies -- tools to make your search engines more effective.
Van Dijck, Peter. O'Reilly and Associates (2004). Articles>Web Design>Search>Controlled Vocabulary
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Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay's Registration
Even the smallest adjustments to a page's design, layout, and content can make a major improvement in the overall quality of the page. Taking a fresh look at sections of a site that have been ignored for a while can give you an entirely new perspective. By making small incremental changes and testing them against real world scenarios, we can more easily focus on continuous improvement without going back to square one every time.
Dimon, Garrett. Digital Web Magazine (2007). Design>Web Design>Forms>E Commerce
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Beware of Opening Links in a New Window
Find out why opening a link in a new window is not generally a good idea.
Turner, Neil. Webcredible (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability
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Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors 
The fundamental challenge for computational media is to contribute to the invention and design of cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities. Cultures are substantially defined by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning, and collaborating. New media change (1) the structure and contents of our interests; (2) the nature of our cognitive and collaborative tools; and, (3) the social environment in which thoughts originate and evolve, and mindsets develop.
Fischer, Gerhard. First Monday (2002). Articles>Cyberculture>Web Design>Community
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Beyond Accessibility: Treating Users with Disabilities as People
With current Web design practices, users without disabilities experience three times higher usability than users who are blind or have low vision. Usability guidelines can substantially improve the matter by making websites and intranets support task performance for users with disabilities.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2001). Design>Accessibility>Web Design>Universal Usability
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Review: Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies
If your Web site is not designed for or understood by a global audience, you are excluding an estimated 200 million people, according to John Yunker in Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies.
Staples, Jeff. Usability Interface (2004). Resources>Reviews>Web Design>Localization
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Review: Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies 
While the potential return on investment may indeed be worth the effort, globalization and personalization come with substantial cost. To ensure you’re heading down the right path (and that you avoid the expensive mistakes of the trailblazers before you), it’s best to have a roadmap.
Abel, Scott. STC Hoosier (2003). Articles>Reviews>Web Design
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Some organisations still take a function-centric approach to their online transactions with customers. Functionality is king, and interactions with the customer are seen as secondary.
Usability by Design (2005). Design>Web Design>Usability>E Commerce
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Beyond Guidelines: Advanced Accessibility Techniques
Find out how to go beyond the W3C accessibility guidelines and offer a truly accessible web experience.
Moss, Trenton. Webcredible (2006). Design>Web Design>Accessibility
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Editing must change for the Web, but perhaps not so much as you think. In paper publishing, different documents require different rules and procedures: An annual report requires more editing and more attention to detail than an office memo. Similarly, not all Web documents are equal.
Ivey, Keith C. Editorial Eye, The (1996). Articles>Web Design>Editing>Writing
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Beyond Text and Graphics: XML Makes Web Pages Function Like Applications 
XML is displacing the traditional 'web page'--generally a static document, created with HTML. Most traditional web pages offer only slim interactivity and rely on an overworked server and CGI script. XML is promoting the concept of a 'weblication' (web application) that can work wonders on the web client without generating so much Internet traffic.
Freter, Todd. Sun Microsystems (1998). Design>Web Design>Metadata>XML
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Beyond the Blog: Wikis and Blikis
Blogs are about to give way to a new development. Wikis are web sites within which any user can quickly and easily edit much of the content, without HTML. This idea regarding user-generated online content goes beyond the comment posting of a standard blog. Blikis are blogs that have wiki support, so that users can edit the comments posted.
Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2005). Articles>Web Design>Wikis>Blogging
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At the risk of repeating an old saw, when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Our hammer has been the Web browser. It has been crippling the software industry for the past eight years and it will kill productivity at any company that introduces major enterprise applications on its intranet. Should we get rid of the browser? No, no more than we should get rid of the hammer. The browser is a useful tool. It needs to cease being the only tool, and it could use some improvement.
Tognazzini, Bruce and Jakob Nielsen. eWeek (2001). Design>Web Design>Usability
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Beyond the Browser: Technologies to Watch
The Internet is not the World Wide Web. So what exactly lies beyond the browser? Eisenberg fearlessly predicts technologies to watch.
Eisenberg, J. David. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Technology>Web Browsers
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Beyond the Buy Button in E-Commerce
The best way for e-commerce sites to increase subsequent orders is to treat customers well after they place their initial order.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability>E Commerce
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Beyond the FONT Tag: Practical HTML Text Styling
Since its introduction, HTML's FONT tag has been the predominant means of specifying font size, face, and color on the Web. Use of FONT is unfortunate on many counts, not least of which for Web developers is the tedium and bloat of adding, e.g., '...' dozens or even hundreds of times to complex table-based pages. Modem users suffer too: often more than 20% of a typical commerce/portal site's weighty HTML code consists of FONT and its attributes. FONT is slow.
Fahrner, Todd. Cleverchimp (1997). Design>Web Design>Typography
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Men and women don't browse the Web the same way; one should design for both feminine and masculine webs.
Bowie, Jennifer L. Texas Tech University (2003). Presentations>Web Design>Information Design>Gender
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Beyond the Universal User: How to Design for the Universe of Users 
There are problems with non-user-centered/system-centered design. We must know, understand, and work with actual users so that the people who use the product can do so quickly and easily to accomplish their own tasks.
Bowie, Jennifer L. Texas Tech University (2003). Presentations>Web Design>Usability>Personas
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Beyond Web Usability: Web Credibility
If you've been developing websites on Mars for the past few years then you'll be forgiven for not knowing about web usability. You'll still be creating splash intro pages, having pages with massive download times and using more images than you can shake a stick at. Well, back in Earth these days have long gone and today web usability rules the web development world.
Moss, Trenton. Webcredible (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability
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Big Architect, Little Architect
First came the primordial soup. Thousands of relatively simple single-celled web sites appeared on the scene, and each one was quickly claimed by a multi-functional organism called a "webmaster." A symbiotic relationship quickly became apparent. Webmaster fed web site. Web site got bigger and more important. So did the role of the webmaster. Life was good. Then, bad things started to happen. The size and complexity and importance of the web sites began to spiral out of control. Mutations started cropping up. Strange new organisms with names like interaction designer, usability engineer, customer experience analyst, and information architect began competing with the webmaster and each other for responsibilities and rewards. Equilibrium had been punctuated and we entered the current era of rapid speciation and specialization.
Morville, Peter. Argus Center (2000). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Project Management
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Big Boxes and Shoppertainment: More Lessons for Web Design from Mall and Retail Design
Explores some tactical issues in structuring and presenting content.
Carliner, Saul. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Design>Web Design>E Commerce
