Siolon

Category: User Experience

  • IE 8 Compatibility Mode and SharePoint

    IE 8’s compatibility mode defaults intranet sites to legacy rendering, likely under pressure from the SharePoint team. That’s a bad sign for what comes next.

  • A Primer on Information Architecture: Navigation

    A curated guide to navigation in information architecture: global, local, contextual, breadcrumbs, pagination, and the design patterns that tie them together.

  • A Quote On Typography

    Jon Tangerine nails what good typography really does: it makes the canvas fit the meaning of the text, not the other way around.

  • The Most Trivial Aspect of Designing Interfaces

    After a decade of UI work, the biggest lesson: how an interface looks is trivial compared to understanding how your users actually need to use it.

  • User Interface Design For Programmers

    Slides from my Day of .NET talk on user interface design for programmers, covering usability, information architecture, and user experience basics.

  • Economical Usability Testing

    Steve Krug convinced me to test even on a shoestring, so I tested this site’s redesign for sixty dollars with a Wufoo form and four Amazon gift certificates.