The Archives / IA / Usability

There are 9 posts in the IA / Usability archive.

• Sewing confusion with absurdity

  Sometimes I wonder if schools hire Information Architects to purposefully confuse the student populous.

• Using CrazyEgg for goal optimization

  By now, I'm sure that all of you have heard of the fantastic CrazyEgg. I've been a huge fan of this service for a very long time now and think… Read More

• The train that Web 2.0 Missed : Part 2 of 3

  This portion of my little mini-series is going to describe how students are expected to register at Cal Poly. The aim is to merely expose the blatantly… Read More

• The train that Web 2.0 missed: Part 1 of 3

  With all the craze of Web 2.0 and user-centric web applications that bring together user-generated content and community, there's a major niche that application developers have missed… Read More

• The state of the web: August 2006

  All words and thoughts in the proceeding article come out of my own nonsense brain and are probably more wild speculation than truth. Take what you read with a grain of salt

  I've… Read More

• Jumping Ship

  Recently, someone in 9rules asked about whether it was safe to abandon 800x600 users on a new web application they were designing. A few people were adamantly against this, and… Read More

• Rails Day is coming, Rails Day is coming!

  If there's one time of year that I get really excited about programming, it's Rails Day. Last year's Rails Day was my first immersion into… Read More

• Apple’s new hot thing

  I love Apple. No, not in the way that I love Mt. Dew (which I do) but in the way that I love the brand. I love the ideals behind it, I love the products backing it, I love the people… Read More

• Resolution dependent layouts are not the future

  There's been a bit of a scuffle lately around resolution dependent layouts. I've heard such phrases… Read More