This is a video from last year’s edition of FOWD, but I’ve only just stumbled upon it. 37 Signals‘ Ryan Singer delivers a great talk about Usability in Web Applications. Topics covered range from using emphasis to make your designs more usable up to using human language people can actually relate to. It’s a long video, but definitely worth the watch.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.Joshua Porter over at Bokardo published an excellent slideshow in which he discusses the various stages users go through as they use applications over time. The slideshow is definitely comprehensive and not something you should just glance over, so make sure you find the time to read through what this man has to say, because it’s pure gold. Head over to the original post.
The Story of Stuff
Published 5 months ago in Blog
Take a look around the room you’re in right now. See all those devices, all that furniture, all those DVDs? All that stuff? Have you ever wondered where it comes from? Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff did, and she wants to share her findings with the rest of the world in this amazing video.
“The Story of Stuff” is a 20 minute, down-to-earth and approachable animation that goes through the various stages of the product lifecycle (Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption and Disposal) while providing enormous insight into what she believes to be a fundamentally crippled business model. Make sure you watch this and pass it on. You won’t be disappointed, and hey, this girl might just end up saving the world.
If you’ve spent some quality time with Javascript, then you probably already figured out it’s an event-driven language. This means that most things done with Javascript are simply reactions to what can be defined as interesting moments in your application. (…) more after the jump ›
According to the latest browser statistics, Internet Explorer 6 is now the least popular IE version used to surf the Web. As you can probably imagine, this is an event of enormous proportions for the Web, particularly for Web Designers, who can now deliver enhanced online experiences with less concern for users with outdated software.
Browser tracking data from Net Applications Market Share Report.
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