The promise of graphics that can change on the fly as users adjust them or enter data is delightfully web-appropriate. People do it, but it's not excessively common-place for the same age-old reasons of browser incompatibility and scripting required. The famous HTML5 "canvas" tag aims to allow browsers to handle interactive graphics natively. Nice! But what about Scaleable Vector Graphics?
Friday, 29 April 2011
Friday, 15 April 2011
Space for learning
Posted on 16:26 by Unknown
According to psychological studies, even small differences in distance and spacing can have a strong impact on a person's sense of security and their attitude towards what they are doing. The studies triggered different emotions by asking subjects to do something as subtle as drawing dots on paper closer or farther apart. The difference in the distance between a person's dots statistically
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
10 principles of usability for learning
Posted on 03:29 by Unknown
Nielsen and Loranger’s book, Prioritizing Web Usability is a world of value
and a bookshelf essential, but what does it have to say about designing for learning on the web? The Nielsen Norman Group offer detailed reports on specific genres like e-commerce,
but, nothing yet on education. Nor does the book showcase any
educational sites or make reference to these in user studies. This, of
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