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Web Sites and Buildings

A good way to get insight into the complexity of web design is to compare it to more familiar design disciplines. Like web sites, buildings are designed to support a wide range of experiences, which involves design from the high-level architecture to signage and interior furnishings...

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The Sphere of Design

The web design community thankfully seems to be wrapping up the "design vs. usability" argument. In case you missed it, the conclusion was: "Not either/or but both, and it depends."...

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The Design Spectrum

Design" encompasses a very wide spectrum of disciplines and applications, which address an enormous range of different problems. When designing a product, the techniques and priorities a designer should use change according to its purpose. This article introduces a simple conceptual model ...

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Designing for the web

The purpose of design is to facilitate communication between user and content. Designing for the web means designing sympathetically with the way people actually use the web, not how we think they should. People approach web sites in very different ways to how we design them...

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People don't read

The #1 most important feature to appreciate about browsing behaviour is scanning. Web sites designed to be looked at are likely to fail. Web sites designed to be scanned are more likely to succeed...

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People are impatient

The web is an unusual environment, high in cognitive friction, the only place where you can suddenly find yourself somewhere completely different, lost and confused or overwhelmed with seemingly no warning...

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