Web Style Guide. Lynch and Horton have apparently released the fully text of their book titled Web Style Guide (2nd edition). To quote: The guidance we offer in Web Style Guide has always been grounded on the functional aspects of design. In… [Column Two]
Lufthansa Says Achtzig, Bitte! [1]….
Lufthansa Says Achtzig, Bitte!. Lufthansa liked the Boeing Connexion trial so much, they’re equipping the fleet: 80 Boeing and Airbus jets will have Connexion service by the end of 2004 for intercontinental flights at $25 to $35 per flight. In the trial, business and first class had Ethernet jacks, and the whole plane had Wi-Fi. However, Boeing was able to…
Getting up to speed on…
Getting up to speed on wikis. Wikis are now on the radar screens of many of us grappling with using technology effectively in knowledge work. Ward Cunningham’s book,The Wiki Way:Quick Collaboration on the Web, has been on my bookshelf for some time now and I’ve visited a handful of public wikis. Lately there’s been a spate of posts in the…
reate documents of some kind…
Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation. “If you are a designer or product planner, you probably create documents of some kind to capture your design decisions and solutions. Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation, so it’s important that it communicates as effectively as possible. Good organization, complete information, and clear writing are, of course,…
Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style…
Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. “In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall… the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And…
Business Is Toying With a…
Business Is Toying With a Web Tool. Businesses are starting to toy with the wiki, an off-beat technology for fostering Web interaction. By Amy Cortese. [New York Times: Technology]
Threat Is Seen to Heirloom…
Threat Is Seen to Heirloom Software. The personal computer industry began less than three decades ago, but already some of the early software programs that defined the era are an endangered species, the potential victims of “bit rot,” according to a prominent digital archivist. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
Linux Migration [1].
Linux Migration. A good site which gives the “the nuts and bolts view of how to get things going in Linux in the shortest amount of time.”[E M E R G I C . o r g]
Weblogs and knowledge management [1]….
Weblogs and knowledge management. Another stream of recent posts has focused on weblogs as a tool for knowledge management both to capture and share knowledge. They include a mix of posts focusing on individual knowledge workers and on knowledge workers within organizations. Lou Rosenfeld, author of the excellent Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, has a good post on…
CSS based Tabs (and simple…
CSS based Tabs (and simple too by gum). Tabs with CSS. Joshua Kaufman – CSS Tabs. How to create tabbed navigation with CSS. I really need to make a CSS category. [High Context] Excellent. I had just been wondering about this very thing this morning.[Curiouser and curiouser!]