Protonotes is a newly launched website. The freely accessible Protonotes service allows the developers, reviewers or IA experts to annotate websites or website prototypes. The newly launched service looks promising and useful when reviewing websites or their prototypes.
What software or service do you use for reviewing your design or requirements?
The WebGuild team has pubished a video about their April 11 event on Usability 2. The video is featuring Sean Kane (Netflix), Jon Wiley (Google), and Luke Wroblewski (Yahoo! Inc.). They discussed upcoming design considerations of the latest Web movements and their impact on usability.
The last days I have enhanced an application to be more usable by colorblind users having a red/green discrimination. We have changed some color encoded areas in the software to be more readable by colorblind users.
To test the changes of the user interface we have used a free Photoshop plug-in called VisCheck. This plug-in can convert an image to different kind and levels of color discrimination. It’s also possible to run VisCheck by a web interface. VisCheck is a great software and really helpful when testing the user interface changes.
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Biologist E. O. Wilson described this year at the TED conference his dream to create the Encylopedia of Life (EOL). This Encyclopedia will describe all 1.8 million species living on earth by including descriptions, pictures, videos, research papers and maps for every known and newly detected species on our planet. The open-source database will be created in a collaborative approach and will be accessible freely like Wikipedia.
The EOL website has been launched this week and will go live next year. Avenue A-Razorfish provided, by a pro bono job, the visualisation and design of EOL website and Ray Ratelis owned eol.org, a valuable web address which he freely contributed to the project. The website currently contains a great introduction video, explaining the purpose and vision behind the Encyclopedia, and screen shots of some demonstration pages.
Looking at the demonstration page you can see samples of the upcoming content. You can move the mouse cursor over the website image and a description of the presentation idea is shown. I really like the vision of EOL website and their extraordinary way to present and structure the information to particular species!
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Yesterday Google Analytics has been relaunched. Brett Crosby, Product Marketing Manager at Google, and Jeff Veen, Design Manager at Google, unveiled the new version of Google Analytics at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco.
The following screen shot displays the Dashboard of Google Analytics V2.
Here are some improvements as mentioned by the Google Analytics Blog.
The following links present detailed information about Google Analytics V2:
Today I came across the Web Design from Scratch website maintained by Ben Hunt. He published the excellent Web 2.0 how-to-design guide guide about designing websites containing the Web 2.0 style.
“In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web (”2.0″) design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs.”
Additionally he presented the Current style in web design article which is interesting to read, too.
“This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages, and identify the distinctive features that make a web page look fresh, appealing and easy to use.”
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Visual-Literacy.org postet a website containing Visualization Methods. It’s a great introduction into the different visualization methods. Move the mouse cursor above the various entries and a sample of the method is displayed.
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