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Views and Feelings
Steven Pemberton : Views and Feelings ← ↑ →
This is a series of articles that I have written and published. If I have a
blog then this is it. There is an RSS feed .
Ten and the art of
computer-power maintenance: the ten €/$/£ computer.
A contemplation on values.
Why XHTML
Why XML parsing is advantageous and why XHTML is relevant.
Why you should have a
website: it's the law!
Why Web 2.0 is bad for the web, and how we can fix it.
Newsnight interviews Gutenberg on the invention of the book
After the success of their interview with Tim Berners-Lee , BBC's Newsnight decided to interview Johann Gutenberg.
Things
that Stay Us from the Swift Completion of Our Appointed Tasks
(Revisited)
A decade ago I tried to predict how much mail I would be receiving now. Was
I right?
The Power
of Two
Available computing power doubles every 18 months. Why aren't we taking
advantage of it?
Scratching
someone else's itch
Why open source can't do usability
So Big,
So Bad, So Often
Badly designed programming languages cause viruses.
Hotel
Heartbreak
Why are hotel booking sites on the Web so terrible?
Letter
Writing, Telephones, and Television
So is the net bad for human relationships?
Restrictive practices
Region codes on DVDs are a stupid idea.
The Kiss
of the Spiderbot
The economic value of making websites accessible.
A Pixel
is not a Point
Screen resolution (pixel density) is increasing. Don't use pixels as a
measure of font size if you want people to continue reading your web
pages.
Go
away!
Web sites that don't care if you can see their content
Choose
one: fast, correct, or pleasurable
On the definition of usability.
Electric
IP
What will it mean for the user if Internet comes out of the electric
plug?
Did
convergence kill the clock?
Will devices converge to one all-powerful device, or will they stay
separate and learn to communicate?
The
culture of uncertainty
A proposed explanation of why some websites are apparently so wilfully hard
to use.
In
search of the killer app
Successes and failures of the mobile Internet.
The
design of notations
Many eyes make UI bugs shallow, too.
Photocopy this article!
Why publishers should be encouraging digital copying like Napster.
Abusus
non tollit usum
Is it OK to use the word "Affordance" about aspects of screen
interfaces?
So
much for WYSIWYG
Horror stories from a multi-lingual environment.
The accidental death of reviewing
Peer-review has structural problems that may just go away
It rings
for me
How our interactions with devices live in the fringes of unanticipated
possibilities.
The demise of the book
If you're one of those people that thinks there's nothing like the feel and
smell of a lovely book, come over to my house sometime and smell mine.
Local Optima
Before you design an interface, you need to observe your users
Image
image: Image Image Image
One day we will all be glad that there are accessible websites
Our
subliminal art
Zen and the Art of Interaction Design
The Screen is not Paper
Why you shouldn't use PDF for documents intended for the screen
Mysteries Worth Pondering
Inconsistencies within and between systems
Teenagers, Sex Education and Microsoft
The sad state of platform interoperability.
Flags are not Languages
So don't use flags as icons representing languages.
Hell and Documentation
Why documentation should be designed using user interface techniques
Programmers are Humans Too, 2
Why are programming languages so bad?
If
Six Were Nine
'Smart' software. Ha!
Quick!
The Future is Coming!
If technological advances of computing are so easy to predict, why are we
so short-sighted?
Never is
a Long Time
Why screens will replace paper eventually
Beep
Beep!
Sound in the user interface
Programmers Are Humans Too
Why is it so hard to write a GUI program?
Metaphorically Speaking
Wrong use of terminology
Things that Stay Us from the Swift
Completion of Our Appointed Tasks
Why are mail readers so uniformly bad?
Gbldgk
Why notations should be designed using user interface techniques
No
Such Number, No Such Zone
The pains of telling computer systems what your address is
Let
Vs Coniectvre VVhat the VVorld VVovld Be Liqe Had the Roman Empire Not
Fallen
Character sets, and how badly most of the world is supported
A Word of Encouragement
An argument for blind reviewing
Parallel Worlds
What sort of mess would we be in if filestores had developed in the same
way that user interface software has?
Steven Pemberton , CWI , Amsterdam
Last modified: Wed Sep 21 11:42:00 W. Europe Daylight Time 2005