I’ve just posted updated slides and resources for this semester’s new students in the Class 1 section.
Past students might want to check out the new usability test plan worksheet that is new to this semester.
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
I’ve posted the syllabus for the summer semester of my Website Usability class. I’ve updated the list of recommend books and websites.
I’ve been of the opinion for the last 10 years or so of HTML frames getting demonized, that they’ve altogether gotten a bad rap. Sure, a lot of people have used them poorly, which has led to many designers and experts publicly shunning them. But, like many ridiculed things, they have their place. While looking at a screenshot (courtesy John Neck’s blog at Adobe) for the beta of Photoshop CS4, you can see that they’ve taken a frame-like approach to the window interface.
Because designers disproportionately stare at both Apple and Adobe products all day long, we generally see a disproportionate amount of influence from these companies on the web in terms of interface. It wouldn’t shock me entirely to see frames become less of an oddity in our day-to-day surfing experience. After all, we’re seeing a huge trend lately of sites being integrated between domains (APIs, the trumpeting of the semantic web, and the heralding of the mashup), there is no more native technology inherent to the browser to support these trends than the lowly frame. They just have to get hip again.
The new semester of Website Usability starts June 30th.
Registration details are at the NYU SCPS site.
Small post at Techcrunch with pictures of Google’s Gmail usability lab.
