The first chapter of Web Bloopers has a screenshot of the first homepage of 37signals and what they did wrong :-) The book is more an intro to IA and usability then actual “graphical webdesign”.
The author, Jeff Johnson, has written another blooper book on GUI design and released chapter 4 for download. This chapter handles text and linking, scent, labeling and using the right words.
theyrule is een flash tool waarmee de “regeerende klasse” van Amerika in kaart wordt gebracht. Relaties tussen bedrijven, relaties tussen board members, alles wordt in het netwerk geplaatst.
Joels Spolsky started a list of articles on good design. The first draft is available online
lateral.net has created a treeview navigation – sitemap – info visualisation thingy. Looks nice, completely useless, but still looks nice. Make sure you have Java installed. [via: http://infosthetics.com/]
Geert Hofstede writes about differences and puts these differences on several axes:
The technique explained in this article is really new to me: start with the most important content block and build the page around that block, navigation, side bars, everything.
So, if you were to start
Jason Frieddesigning this page from scratch, you’d start here — with the message unit. The subject, the body, the metadata, the link and file attachment styles, etc. Only when that unit is complete would you begin to think about the second most critical element on the page
The post was published in 2004 but seems still relevant as they posted a pointer to another blog “To-Done” where Britt Parrot writes about a similar technique to get a web design
And flingmedia uses a similar technique to do
The idea of putting the focus on the main goal or most important block of the page is interesting enough to try. It certainly worked for basecamp and other apps from 37signals and it is different then other techniques like a
Tim O’Reilly’s response on Jacob Nielsen’s rant on O’Reilly Radar >Search Engines as Leeches on the Web
Brian Fling has put together an arcticle and a download package for prototyping with AJAX
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