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.

Posted at 8am on 08/12/09 | no comments | Filed Under: UI / Usability read on

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

Posted at 9am on 03/11/09 | no comments | Filed Under: Internet, UI / Usability read on

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Lee Pilmore is a web designer living and working from Leicester in the UK and is senior designer for Jadu. A smashing bunch of talented folk who create Content Management Systems. Among other things.

With a mixture of XHTML, CSS and CMS he is a web standards advocate and practitioner, helping make the path to shared and equal web enlightenment wider and smoother.

He studied fine art, then graphic design, animation and video production before moving into the web, where he’s now been for around eight years.

This hackneyed site is a place for him to post articles, tutorials and comments on stuff that he needs assistance remembering and that help, educate and inspire him.

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Anything published on this blog is in no way the views of my employer, Jadu.

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