http://www.gettheeye.com/design/ A series of articles about making software feel good. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:12:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.gettheeye.com/design/#comment-23 Zack Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:50:14 +0000 http://www.gettheeye.com/?p=562#comment-23 Molly, I'll have to try it, but I'm worried people think more about Edward Tufte then user experience design when they here Information Architecture. Molly, I’ll have to try it, but I’m worried people think more about Edward Tufte then user experience design when they here Information Architecture.

]]> http://www.gettheeye.com/design/#comment-22 Molly Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.gettheeye.com/?p=562#comment-22 How about hmm... Information Architecture? How about hmm… Information Architecture?

]]> http://www.gettheeye.com/design/#comment-14 Gus Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:27:12 +0000 http://www.gettheeye.com/?p=562#comment-14 Yeah, that's because "web designers" are often folks who came from the Graphic Arts industry during the .com boom. They are the same folks who gave rise to the vast number of fixed pixel width pages of that era (because that level of control is what they knew from working with print media). I agree that "design" isn't going to communicate well. "Make the page easier to use" probably gets you where you want to go, though it's a mouthful. "Prevent the user from cursing about our application" is another one :) Yeah, that’s because “web designers” are often folks who came from the Graphic Arts industry during the .com boom. They are the same folks who gave rise to the vast number of fixed pixel width pages of that era (because that level of control is what they knew from working with print media). I agree that “design” isn’t going to communicate well. “Make the page easier to use” probably gets you where you want to go, though it’s a mouthful. “Prevent the user from cursing about our application” is another one

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