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Why aesthetics are important to web design (and by extension, online learning)--we shouldn't approach visual design as an add on, but a core part of the design

Tags: usability, webdesign on 2009-04-24 and saved by 44 people -All Annotations (85) -About

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Recommendations for drop-down navigation menus with big menus grouped with structure

Tags: usability, webdesign on 2009-03-23 and saved by 32 people -All Annotations (26) -About

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4 inexpensive tools for doing usability testing

Tags: usability on 2009-02-04 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Vision for what Sakai could look like in the future. The authors envision an LMS based on widgets with lots of flexibility, social networking, and content creation tools. The proposed changes to the organization (doing away with sites) would make Sakai much more flexible outside of a traditional academic course environment. The ability to have groups persist outside of courses would allow cohorts to be part of a group together, which creates some interesting possibilities.

"In summary, our ambition is not merely an incremental improvement of Sakai nor is it to copy Google. Our goal is not simply to create a better and cheaper version of Blackboard. It is time to arrive at a clearer understanding of the capabilities that represent needs unique to education and for the Sakai community to focus its development effort on providing these capabilities while taking advantage of established open‐source efforts to provide more generic capabilities. We should, in short, strive to create a different type of academic collaboration system."

Tags: lms, sakai, e-learning, education, portfolio, usability, tagging on 2008-12-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Brief intro to usability and a collection of resources for usability and usability testing

Tags: e-learning, usability on 2008-11-26 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Design ideas from someone who says that every part of his blog design is intentional. It may not be perfect, but he's thought about all the elements and how they help him accomplish his goals. Some of this is visual design, but a lot of it is general usability and effectiveness.

Tags: blog, design, usability, goals on 2008-05-18 and saved by 9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Christine Martell explains blog visuals with some usability and color theory. First in a series where she will help a blogger work on making his content easier to find.

Tags: graphicdesign, usability, blog, color on 2008-05-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Discussion of decluttering physical and virtual spaces to avoid feeling buried and lost and improve productivity. You need a vision of what you want, then you can get rid of the physical/virtual/mental clutter that doesn't help you reach that goal.

Tags: productivity, usability, goals on 2008-04-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Computerworld article on the minimal progress made in assistive technology and accessible design. Vista is substantially less accessible than Windows 3.1, for example; there are actions in Vista which cannot be done with a keyboard.

Tags: accessibility, webdesign, usability on 2008-04-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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These are just awful Captchas--great examples of failures for usability.

Tags: humor, usability on 2008-04-01 and saved by 15 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Our brains, how we process and perceive information, and how that affects usability and user interface design.

Tags: cognition, color, memory, patterns, usability, webdesign on 2008-02-27 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Usability resources from the US government. Organized in four sections: plan, analyze, design, test & refine

Tags: template, usability, webdesign on 2008-02-19 and saved by 11 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.usability.gov

Documents for usability testing, including schedule, observer guidelines, script, consent form, questionnaire, and more

Tags: template, usability, webdesign on 2008-02-19 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.infodesign.com.au

Forms, checklists, and other documents for usability testing

Tags: template, usability, webdesign on 2008-02-19 and saved by 64 people -All Annotations (3) -About

more fromwww.stcsig.org

Tags: blog, usability, webdesign on 2007-10-09 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.skelliewag.org

Tags: usability, webdesign on 2007-08-05 and saved by 37 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.boxesandarrows.com

Tags: usability, webdesign on 2007-04-15 and saved by 14 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: accessibility, usability, webdesign on 2007-02-23 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: accessibility, usability, webdesign on 2007-02-22 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: accessibility, usability, webdesign on 2007-02-22 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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