Information Management Weblog

Big ol' Link Dump

I've been working through a month+ of links. This list represents only about half of the links I've collected. The rest I haven't had a chance to work through yet. So, here's your chance to follow along and get caught up on a month's worth of reading in one sitting:

Usability

• Dave Shea on Fitt's Law


• Ideal line width


• Whitespace. More whitespace = slower reading, but more comprehension. I'll take that tradeoff any day.


• D. Keith Robinson gives us a big web design details list, a sort of general list of heuristics.


• Usability News: Preliminary Examination of Global Expectations of Users' Mental Models for E-Commerce Web Layouts See also: Jakob Nielsen.

Web Design

• Michael Angeles offers up some nifty mini icons, and links to even more.


• Forms – the importance of getting it right.


• Speaking of forms, formsthatwork.com. Too bad it hasn't been updated in a couple of years.


• Adam Greenfield: Planning for redesign, 1: Establishing the context. I haven't seen part 2 yet...


• Mark Hurst on Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience. Good stuff. I'll refrain from further comment.


• The WaSP mentions DOCTYPE debates.


• Excerpt from 37Signals' checklist for adding new features: 2. Say no.

Information Architecture

• Lou Rosenfeld's IA Heuristics. Nice. I'll add these to the list of heuristics I'm slowly compiling.


• Web Design Practices has a nice little article with examples of faceted navigation schemes. I usually just use epicurious.com when I talk about faceted classification, so its nice to have some other examples to draw on.


• Jeff Veen: 8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine.


• Notes from a Lou Rosenfeld presentation on the topic: Enterprise Information Architecture:
  Strategies for the Real World.

Other Mildly Useful Stuff

• New uses for RSS keep poping up: RSSCalendar. (via Joe Marquez)


• Phil Windley on internet application performance. Wish I'd read this before the server crashed. Kidding. It actually wouldn't have helped.


• More Phil Windley, this time on linux configuration. I have an old PC sitting in my home office just waiting for me to slap in a new HD and a copy of linux. Haven't exactly had the time lately. Not really sure when I will have the time. But if I did, I'd go back and read a couple of Phil's notes.


• Ethan Marcotte: Producing Quality CSS in a Team Environment.

That's all. I'll get to the others...well...sometime. Oh, and I should say that the above links really are the good stuff out of my list 'o links. I did trash a bunch of stuff that just didn't seem so interesting anymore.