Category Archives: Things to tell students

Student web design competition – Re–design of www.ico.mmu.ac.uk Sponsored by www.oreilly.com. * For my students only * Students are required to provide a design for the main index pages of www.ico.mmu.ac.uk. The deliverable is a single html file and external … Continue reading →

Image optimisation A concept my current crop of students are really struggling with, way beyond anything seen before. Steve McKinny put me on to both of these tools which may help some (along with Fireworks or Photoshop as you also … Continue reading →

Userfocus Usability Newsletter, January 2011 This months newsletter has a great selection of articles linked in the ‘what we’re reading‘ section.

I’ve talked in class about PAS 78:2006 (now withdrawn) and the development of BS 8878 as a non-technical document designed to inform web site owners about web accessibility. BS 8878 has now been released. Overview from Out-law.com – Web accessibility … Continue reading →

Just a link, that’s all you need.. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/.

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, April 26, 2010: iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing. It will be interesting to se how this one pans out. The iPad could start to influence our designs, simple things like the space betwen options on … Continue reading →

I’ve just come across Ryan Taylor’s blog which hosts a number of interviews described as a ‘video series exploring the career paths and experiences of industry professionals’. Great stuff. http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/ And this led to http://www.dribbble.com/, more great inspiration.

A nice article called Designing for iPad: Reality Check from Information Architects. The focus is on designing apps, but has some nice insights for web page design. The ipad could really change things. Does this mean ipad specific CSS, or … Continue reading →

As teaching draws to a close this academic year I thought I’d reflect on the excellent guest speakers we’ve had for my three units. Year one unit, Organising Information has just finished a term of Information Architecture basics with two … Continue reading →

This ties in nicely with our current guests from the BBC and developments at our favorite web site. From the Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled “Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing … Continue reading →