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
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
How to innovate and get away with it - Learning from Prezi
Posted on 17:49 by Unknown
When it comes to education, the slide presentation is harder to dodge than a bullet. So PowerPoint haters are loving Prezi. Its worth a play, not only because it's such an 'outside-the-box' take on presentations, but also because of the way they've innovated the user interface and handled user training. Most applications take well understood user interaction standards and put them together
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Icon bliss
Posted on 15:28 by Unknown
IconFinder. The secret you almost don't want to share.
Having access to free or cheaply available sexy icon sets can create that polished look even when you have the least amount of time. IconFinder is great as it turns out high quality stuff. It's not like sifting through free clipart websites. It's top notch. Go swimming in glorious icons.
Having access to free or cheaply available sexy icon sets can create that polished look even when you have the least amount of time. IconFinder is great as it turns out high quality stuff. It's not like sifting through free clipart websites. It's top notch. Go swimming in glorious icons.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Does your content make sense?
Posted on 17:14 by Unknown
We talk a lot about testing designs, technology and interaction, but what about the words? Educational websites, like university and research sites can be most susceptible to writing styles and jargon that don't communicate well to their audiences. So don't miss the A List Apart article by Angela Colter on "Testing Content" for strategy on making sure your site's content is doing its job.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Don't just make it easy, make it look easy.
Posted on 16:39 by Unknown
It's not enough to make your design easy to use, you have to make sure it looks easy to use too.
Information foraging theory helps explain how good visual design can increase the users who stay on your site.
According to the theory, on the web, we are all "informavores" who act like animals hunting for food in the wild. This theory stacks up to the user research and supports usability
Information foraging theory helps explain how good visual design can increase the users who stay on your site.
According to the theory, on the web, we are all "informavores" who act like animals hunting for food in the wild. This theory stacks up to the user research and supports usability
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