Alex around the World

трапезни масиAn easy-to-read article on how to build easy-to-use, user-friendly and intuitive (web) applications interfaces. A must read for all developers. If you don’t want to read all of it, go straight to the last paragraph: First, reduce actual complexity by eliminating unnecessary features and then hiding what you can’t eliminate. Secondly, reduce perceived complexity [...]

Web comms managers, the truth about websites is out there. Paul Boag’s article on corporate websites posted on Smashing Magazine should be mandatory if you plan to manage a webteam. Thank you Paul!

Robert Hoekman, about error handling in web apps: “The best way to handle errors is to prevent them from ever occurring.” Excerpt from his book titled “designing the obvious”.

A nice article describing (some of the) skills needed to become a good designer, found on Luke Wroblewski’s blog.

Quoted from Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morvile’s book entitled “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (O’Reilly, 2nd edition, 2002): [...]be aware of the challenges of organizing information on the Web. Language is ambiguous, content is heterogeneous, people have different perspectives, and politics can rearits ugly head. (Chapter 5: Organization Systems, p. 74) Of all [...]