Archive for December, 2001

Reducing reliance on superstition Then

Friday, December 7th, 2001

Reducing reliance on superstition
Then an article which tears that concept up a bit.
Thanks to Naomi B. Robbins for the link to that one!
Human Factors International–ensuring usability through software ergonomics, human factors and design artistry

How many things can you

Friday, December 7th, 2001

How many things can you remember at once?
Figured a link to the original (1956) research work which told us we could only hope to remember a phone number.
The Magical Number Seven

Sitemaps and Metadata it all

Friday, December 7th, 2001

Sitemaps and Metadata
it all started with a conversation on the Information Design Cafe list about numbers of interface elements, the lucky number 7, and navigation directions. The next thing I knew I was goin ghtrough old links on site mapping techniques and ran accross this…
Information Technology and Libraries vol.18, no.4 Visualization of Metadata

Interview with world famous author

Wednesday, December 5th, 2001

Interview with world famous author
OK, my brother got interviewed by TradeStation Zone Dot Com where he talks about his book Ask Mr. EasyLanguage, emerging developments in trading software and the role of consultants. Read the interview, NOW :
Interview with Samuel K. Tennis
[FTR, I'm linking to the actual article as their Tradestation.com's stupid frameset doesn't allow deep linking into their site]

Interesting notes of Tuftes lecture

Monday, December 3rd, 2001

Interesting notes of Tuftes lecture from earlier this year. I’m attending the same lecture tomorrow so ran across this:
Notes from “Presenting Data and Information”