MLB

Since it is the baseball season, I say, “Go Red Sox!” Hmmm…excuse me. This site uses up all of it its white space for advertisements and multimedia presentation for its users. It has ways for the user to be interactive with the site by using the pull down menus to find the team that they [...]

BOO!

Happy Halloween Everyone!Ready for a frightful web experience?Check out the layout on Halloween.com!

An Apple a Day Keeps Bill Gates Away

Mac OSX Leopard sold a whopping 2 million copies over its debut weekend. Apple continues to ride high as its market share continues to grow. Engadget rates the new OS higher in total usability and utility than Vista, so where do they go from here?
Microsoft still has a strangle hold on the gaming industry, but [...]

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If Peter Rojas can make the cover of New York (and a mountain of money) from a blog, than so can I. I have even broken it down into a step-by-step process so we can all revel in my genius together.
A. Find a celebrity disaster (Britney you are making this too easy for [...]

CNN

This website has just enough color for the user to come back for more. The downside of this website is that it does not have that much interaction between the website and the user. It uses its white space well, and it makes users coming back for more because of the up to date articles. [...]

Bit OOT, but i couldn’t resist ….

Best wishes to those on tutorial island. You are not alone:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14

Go

This website is very plain but it has a lot of links. It uses up the white space quite well by adding advertisements and information on the side of the website. I think this website should have more color on it and be more interactive so the user will be coming back for more. What [...]

Visual Clutter

I’m a lousy housekeeper, but I get it honestly. My mom was a lousy housekeeper before me and my grandmother before her. I come from a line of women who would rather paint a picture than a bathroom wall, or write a poem instead of do the dishes. I fervently hope my daughter (who is [...]

Thinking with Type

During class today while we were talking about typography I was reminded of a great book that I read in undergrad in my Typography class. Below is a link to the book’s website which has exercises and other useful information. It is a great resource for anyone interested in typography.
www.thinkingwithtype.com

Provide a Simple and Accurate Loading-Status: Blog #7

On page 361 in the book, “Prioritizing Web Usability” by Jakob Neilson, it talks about how to minimize people’s impatience by having an indicator to tell when the downloading is done. I really like this idea because sometimes you think the site is down because it takes so long to load.