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Rethinking the fold in a webpage.
tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about
"So, tagging has brought metadata to the masses, thanks to both its ease of use as well as its clear value."
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"Users aren't stupid, they're efficient. They're spending the least amount of effort (i.e. intelligence) as they possible can on each step of the goal they're trying to achieve. If you make them spend more, they'll go somewhere else . . ."
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"Basically, unconscious design is design where there is no “conversation with the situation�. Sometimes we make design decisions based out of habit; we are simply following the norm; or we just never asked ourselves “Why?�."
How Public Prediction Markets Simplify Concepts about Buying and Selling Events and Ideas
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Five Most Important Considerations
An answer to the question, "what are the five most important considerations when planning a web site?"
Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them
Thinking about the effect of people who don't know what they need to know on information architecture.
"This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Code Library."
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Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.
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Some things to think about when redesigning a homepage.
The Website Development Process
The process of creating a website performed by Playmobile toys.
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How to bring the information buried deep in your blog forward.
Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index)
There are seven basic blog posting formats: "link-only, link blurb, brief remark, list, short article, long article and series postings."
Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
Joshua Porter: "With all these aggregators providing new places to start our searches for content, what will become of the home page?"
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How to build on bubble-up folksonomies...
"For me, this is a pretty compelling argument that understanding semantic relationships between concepts makes folksonomic tagging even more exciting"
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An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
"To make better sites  sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable"  we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements."
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Garrett Dimon: "On the web, precise control of how a design is experienced is a lot like squeezing a wet bar of soap. The more you tighten your grip, the more likely it is to fly out of your hands."
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What is information architecture?
This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
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