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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ColdFusion User Group - Ireland
CFUG.ie was formed in 1999 with the aim of promoting the benefits of using ColdFusion within the Irish web development community.
CFUG.ie. Organizations>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ireland
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Collecting Feedback From Users of an Archive (Reader Challenge)
The collective brainpower of the Internet is an awesome beast that used to manifest itself on Usenet newsgroups. Most of these groups have degenerated into spam, flames, and newbie ignorance. The Web has not yet evolved good ways of utilizing this power, since most so-called 'community' sites are equally degenerate.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1999). Articles>Web Design>Usability
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The habit of collecting, analyzing, designing, and innovating in this fashion is making me a more systematic and disciplined web designer. Through analyzing the best design patterns and techniques used by today's web design community, I'm able to more critically assess my own designs, and create new solutions to common interface challenges.
Smith, Matthew. Digital Web Magazine (2007). Design>Web Design>Methods
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Supply two color values in either hex, short hex, RGB percentages, or RGB decimals and get as many as ten colors shades between the two you supplied. Great for finding a color halfway between two shades you like, or mixing two colors together in various proportions.
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Did you know that a site visitor forms his or her first impression about your site within the first nine seconds of a visit? Making sure your color scheme is in contour with your site's content and visitors, is very important. You want the color scheme to enhance your site and it's content, not distract or confuse your users. Color gives users cues as to your site's navigation, grouping of content, importance, relationships, etc. For this reason, color is an essential element of Web site design. Most of the people relate to color similarly online and offline. Visitors to your site, whether they know it or not, respond to colors and other visual elements on your web site on a psychological level. An intrigued (and non-confused) site visitor is more likely to engage in the goal of your site -- whether it is meant to inform, entertain, or to sell goods or services.
Singh, Vaishali. CoolHomePages.com (2000). Design>Web Design>Marketing>Color
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You're seeing red. They're seeing orange. Not the same, is it? More often than not, color on the web is approximate. So how do you choose colors that are going to work best? Are you forever stuck with the old 216 color 'web-safe' colors? Is there technology that ensures what you see is what your visitors get?
Will-Harris, Daniel. Typofile (2003). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Psychologically speaking, different color has different meaning. From this point, this article focuses on the relationship between the background color and content of the web interface.
uiGarden (2005). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part I
This article is Part I of a quick reference on color theory for digital displays. It is the first in a series of articles about the use of color in application program user interfaces and on Web sites.
Gabriel-Petit, Pabini. UXmatters (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>Color
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Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part II
This article is Part II of a quick reference on color theory for digital displays. It is the second in a series of articles about the use of color in application program user interfaces and on Web sites.
Gabriel-Petit, Pabini. UXmatters (2006). Design>Web Design>Standards>Color
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You might do a lot of usability testing on your web site but you still might lose up to 10% of your audience because of some simple mistakes with colors. Specifically, your web site may be designed in a way that doesn't work well for people with colorblindness. Generally the fix is quite simple: be sure to provide excellent contrast between your various web page elements.
Follansbee, Todd. WebWord (2001). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Color
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This series of articles about color is designed to help you get started right now selecting colors for your site.
Carter, Mary E. EFuse (2004). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Once upon a time, we were curious and everything we encountered was new. We were excited about discovering new things and the world offered unlimited possibilities. Then we went to school and were taught to color inside the lines, that everything had its place and the world was ordered.
Malone, Erin. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Articles>Web Design>Instructional Design>Metadata
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Coloring Your Scrollbars with CSS
You really can color your scrollbars and have a change of scenery from the basic gray or other browser default. It just takes a few snippets of CSS markup, which you'll learn how to do in this tutorial.
Kaiser, Shirley E. Website Tips. Design>Web Design>Forms>CSS
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Colour is one of the designer's best tools. There are lots of ways to use it to help communicate a message. Colour can carry meaning, express personality, differentiate, frame, and highlight content.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>Graphic Design>Color
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With cartography on the Web, the use of colour plays an important role in the visualization and analysis of data. The correct application of colour for the display of thematic map data, allows for the better observation of interrelationships and patterns.
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Colour is used in interface design for a variety of purposes. Not only can colour convey meaning or highlight content, it is also an important part of corporate identity and branding. Where would the Coca Cola brand be without its distinctive red and white livery? All well and good, but the reality is that the use of colour can cause more problems than it solves. Interface designers must treat colour with caution for a variety of reasons - most importantly the huge variety of ways in which any given colour can be perceived. It is well known that older users and those with colour-deficit vision may have difficulty in perceiving certain colours. Different monitors may be poor at maintaining colours the same across displays, and of course many users are still working on black and white displays. In this environment, poor use of colour may mean that text is hard to read, eyestrain occurs, and users become frustrated. With this in mind, designers should consider the following guidelines relating to the use of colour in interface design.
Gaine, Frank. Frontend Infocentre (2000). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Color
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Coming Out of the Dark: Using Your Web Site for Crisis Communication
When SwissAir Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia in early September of 1998, most people didn’t realize the accident would begin to usher in a new era—using the Internet for crisis communication. In the years since, more and more companies and not-for-profits have jumped on the bandwagon and identified their web sites as critical tools for crisis communication response, particularly since Sept. 11.
Bagg, Frederick C. Communication World Bulletin (2004). Articles>Business Communication>Web Design>Crisis Communication
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En matière de visuels, même si la plupart des acquis des médias traditionnels restent valables, tels que les rapports sémiologiques entre le texte et l'image, certaines règles spécifiques devraient pouvoir s'appliquer à Internet.
Hardy, Jean-Marc. Redaction (2004). Design>Web Design>Visual Rhetoric
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La manière dont vous allez organiser votre contenu est fortement dépendante du produit que vous allez éditer : page d'accueil, chronique, interview, brève, dossier, lettre d'information,...
Hardy, Jean-Marc. Redaction (2004). (French) Articles>Web Design>Writing
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Comment Spammers: Internet Pigs and How They Feed
Comment spam is irrelevant, unethical, or unwanted commercial-oriented message propagation on comment posting pages of blogs and web sites. Comment spam is invading every interactive and community building aspect of the internet and web. What you need to do to protect yourself and to stop this attack by "internet pigs."
Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2004). Articles>Web Design>Discussion Forum>Spam
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Some of the most common myths about Web design follow. These myths have found their way into business and technical organizations, and are--to some degree or other--taken at face value by management, marketing, engineering, and sometimes even Web designers themselves. The sooner you can disabuse your organization of these myths, the better.
Cooper, Alan and Robert Reimann. Cooper Interaction Design (2004). Design>Web Design
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Common Sense Search Engine Optimization
For years, when people thought about search engine optimization, in all likelihood, gateway pages, doorway pages or informational pages probably came to mind. If you're a search engine optimization specialist, you've probably had clients requesting that you create these types of pages for them.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2004). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
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Common Visual Design Elements of Weblogs
Weblogs (blogs) have been heralded as a new space for collaborative creativity, a medium for breaking free of the constraints of previous forms and allowing authors greater access to flexible publishing methods. This generalization seems extreme: genre studies done by Crowston and Williams (2000) and Shepherd and Watters (1998) lend credence to the notion that weblogs are evolutionary descendents of other visual media, such as newspapers and pamphlets. In this study, we apply content-analytic methods (Bauer, 2000) to a random sample of weblogs as a means of exploring current visual trends within the blogosphere.
Scheidt, Lois Ann and Elijah Wright. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
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Communicate the ROI (Return on Investment) for Design
In the late 1990s, companies spent exorbitant amounts of money developing web sites. A happy ancillary effect was the maturation of 'user experience design' as a practice -- an opportunity to gain experience and rapidly develop effective methods. Since the dot.bust and collapse of NASDAQ, companies have adopted a thriftier approach, requiring measured accountability for every expenditure, including design. Designers aren’t used to making fiscal arguments for their value. Isn’t it clear that a more useful/usable/desirable/pleasing product is of course a better product, which will sell more or be used more, thus earning more revenue? Unfortunately, this gut-level understanding isn’t necessarily shared by the world at large. Increasingly, designers are asking, 'How do we communicate our value to the business world?'
Merholz, Peter. Adaptive Path (2002). Design>Web Design
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Communicating Design: Web Design Documentation
An overview of web design methods, including a survey of questions one should ask during the process.
Brown, Dan. SlideShare (2006). Presentations>Web Design>Documentation
