Designing for Web 2.0

LukeW, In his presentation says that how the ability of visual communication to express core customer and brand messages across multiple forms of media has not changed much. However, shifts from locomotion to services, from pages to rich interactions, from sites to content experiences, and from content creation by webmasters to everyone online have introduced unique opportunities and constraints that the presentation layer of Web applications needs to account for. Check out the slides (PDF) for lots more details.

BUSINESS PAPERS - TABLE OF CONTENTS

Are you in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.
Read Dave Pollard's business papers. It contains wonderful stuff on Knowledge Management,Personal Knowledge Management ,Personal Productivity Improvement (PPI) and Getting Things Done (GTD) Complexity & Discovery and more.

By any medium necessary: How interaction designers can save the world

David Fore of Cooper Design tells us to how interaction design can serve organizational needs. He suggested a plan to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the team.

• Get the right people on the job
• Measure the right things to define success
• Capture what's happening now, then articulate optimal processes
• Create user personas and organizational archetypes
• Stick to your guns
• Separate design from construction

Opportunities are what we make of them, not what is offered us. Just as identifying the goals of users is the first step to the best product design, the best way to work with well-meaning but ill-informed executives is to help them see the difference between what they say they want and what they really need.

Improve the writing in your organisation

Here's a simple guideline to write 100 word articles. Easy to use.
Phil Turner call is a Mirror Triangle.

Text-message English course

Once again, language classes seem to be one of the best uses for mLearning solutions. Language training could be a good avenue for mLearning technology....... Click Here to know more.

Website Redesign Strategy

A wounderful stuff from Maish Nichani. He has suggestd the framework for website redesign.

The framework embodies 4 actions:

• Eliminate what is redundant, outdated or trivial and providing no value
• Reduce what isn’t providing enough value
• Raise what has the potential to add more value
• Create what isn’t available yet but can bring more value

These 4 actions represent a reservoir of questions that can be asked about our content. But these questions need a direction. This is provided by the goals of the redesign. The stage is now set for using our background knowledge and research findings to provide answers to these questions. Here’s the setup.

As in any strategy building exercise, the magic is in asking the right questions. And the closer we are to the ground, the better the questions get.
Let’s move forward with a scenario.

Redesigning websites

In 2006, many university has updated their websites which gives better user experience. When I come across all these website, I found that, sites are "simple and uncluttered" specially in home page.

A comprehensive article from Maish Nichani of PebbleRoad, lists key areas of focus on the subject of web standards, it may be of interest that the site you try to manage...

Here are some that are doing a good job with web standards.
Cornell University, Princeton University, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Dartmouth College, Bucknell University, University of Melbourne, University of Wisconsin, La Trobe University, Seattle University, University of Michigan, University of Sheffield, Ohio State University.