Managing UI Complexity
A post dealing with the complexity of interface design and its effectiveness, like much design, the process of reduction.
Progressive disclosure is the most popular means of managing complexity. The idea is that clutter and cognitive overhead can be reduced by hiding less frequently used elements behind some avenue of accessing those elements, like a mouse click or a keyboard shortcut.
Read the full article by Brandon Walkin.
Luke Wroblewski on Best Practices for Content Page Design
By Patrick Lufkin
As the web becomes increasingly social, distributed, and search driven, the paths that users take to find content grow ever more varied, and that, according to Luke Wroblewski, has important implications for web page design and usability.
Wroblewski has been involved with interface design since he was Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) back in the days of the Mosaic browser when the website had 5 pages. He
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