http://www.collectiweb.fr/ CollectiWeb.fr [format RSS 2.0] - Les dernières actualités concernant l'utilisabilité, l'accessibilité et le webdesign (revue de Web, sources francophones et anglophones) fr-fr Copyright 2003-2008, Patrice Bourlon, CollectiWeb.fr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 2010-02-23T18:05:00+01:00 daily 1 2010-02-23T18:05:00+01:00 http://www.collectiweb.fr/images/logocw.png http://www.collectiweb.fr/ 80 15 CollectiWeb.fr - Améliorez l'accessibilité et l'utilisabilité de vos interfaces Web. Les actualités concernant l'accessibilité numérique (revue de Web, sources francophones et anglophones) sur WebAccessibilite.fr 2010-02-05T18:01:00+01:00 http://www.webaccessibilite.fr/actualites-accessibilite-numerique-fevrier-2010.php 6AEFE716-E9CC-4CFF-B891-96BE883C7598 Most interfaces are designed for use on a desktop, or more precisely, from behind a desk. They assume you're in a comfortable position, seated on a chair with screen and keyboard directly in front of you. Most times this assumption is appropriate because that's what 90% of all system setups look like. It's the standard home or office setup. But what if the setup is not standard? [...] Max Steenbergen, UX Magazine (2010-02-23) 2009-02-23T17:45:16+01:00 http://uxmag.com/design/dashboard-uis-an-introduction A36E5F0D-32B0-4C1D-B94E-769407F15721 Back in January, I attended a UIE Virtual Seminar called Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns for Great Online Experiences, with Peter Morville & Mark Burrell. During his talk, Peter mentioned that navigation on web sites has swung back and forth over time between Browse based navigation and Search based navigation [...] Hagan Rivers, UIE (2010-02-22) 2009-02-23T17:45:15+01:00 http://www.uie.com/articles/browse_vs_search 59752465-DCEC-42B1-94EE-5E07D781B8D3 Over the past decade, usability improved by 6% per year. This is a faster rate than most other fields, but much slower than technology advances might have predicted [...] Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox (2010-02-22) 2009-02-23T17:45:14+01:00 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/usability-progress-rate.html B9123E2D-836D-4810-BA44-D3E39CEE8DAF Hyperlinks (or links) connect Web pages. They are what make the Web work, enabling us to travel from one page to the next at the click of a button. As Web Standardistas put it, "without hypertext links the Web wouldn't be the Web, it would simply be a collection of separate, unconnected pages.". So without links, we'd be lost. We look for them on the page when we want to venture further. Sure, we pause to read a bit, but inevitably we end up clicking a link of some sort [...] Lee Munroe, Smashing Magazine (2010-02-13) 2009-02-23T17:45:13+01:00 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/13/the-definitive-guide-to-styling-web-links/ 71DFDD5F-31C5-4FEF-B3BD-FAF234080530 Designing a rich Internet application (RIA) can test even an experienced design team. The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience. Some paradigms that exist in the desktop environment are ill-suited for the Web, while many of the Web paradigms people are familiar with (paging, explicit refresh) are no longer necessary with RIA technologies like Flex and Ajax [...] Theresa Neil, UX Magazine (2010-02-11) 2009-02-23T17:45:12+01:00 http://uxmag.com/design/rich-internet-application-screen-design BB368DA2-BF5B-40DC-BA1C-207EB097755D In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics of bringing storytelling into the user experience process and some places to get started [...] Francisco Inchauste, Smashing Magazine (2010-02-11) 2009-02-23T17:45:11+01:00 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/11/better-user-experience-through-storytelling-part-2/ 803D8E0E-C660-4C37-903B-40A57D86C340 The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most relevant engineering practices, promoting those that enable a better user experience and warning against those that are considered harmful [...] W3C (2010-02-11) 2009-02-23T17:45:10+01:00 http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8719 C90E8AFD-2D1C-4AEB-8E8A-A0D164579250 Web forms are the mouth that feeds most web apps. There's no way around that. Yet, few people are thinking about how to make one of the more unpleasant parts of the web more pleasant [...] Brian Christiansen, UIE (2010-02-11) 2009-02-23T17:45:09+01:00 http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/02/11/spoolcast-moving-beyond-static-forms-with-luke-wroblewski/ F15CAC52-09DD-4D60-AB92-F27DD75AA103 Mobile Web forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: mobile screens are smaller; connection speeds are slower; entering text is harder; and so on. As a result, it's generally a good idea to limit the number of Web forms in mobile applications and sites. In situations where you do have to get input from people on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus, and lists tend to fare much better than open text fields [...] Luke Wroblewski, LukeW (2010-02-11) 2009-02-23T17:45:08+01:00 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1000 326DA5AD-33C1-44D3-BC29-FBFE5B95E160 Over the past week, I had a slew of press inquiries about the future of Flash, driven largely by the Apple iPad announcement - an event in which Flash was conspicuously absent. Of the top of my head, I put together some key points in the conversation, presented below [...] Ray Valdes, Gartner Blog Network (2010-02-10) 2009-02-23T17:45:07+01:00 http://blogs.gartner.com/ray_valdes/2010/02/10/html5-and-flash/ 79D1080E-609B-48DC-9404-3BEF823A7719 Most mobile applications are used only intermittently, so they must be especially easy during initial use. In particular, upfront registration shouldn't be required before users experience an app's benefits [...] Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox (2010-02-10) 2009-02-23T17:45:06+01:00 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-apps-initial-use.html 2774478E-E04D-45A3-B4A1-8DFEE1900868 Usability researcher Jakob Nielsen's recent column advocates a fundamental change to password field design on the web. He believes that the time has come "to show most passwords in clear text as users type them," abandoning the traditional approach that displays a series of asterisks or bullets in place of the actual password [...] Lyle Mullican, ALA (2010-02-09) 2009-02-23T17:45:05+01:00 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-problem-with-passwords/ 4936CAED-6C11-42B8-89E5-ACF87C94EAE7 "Mathematics is beautiful." This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: "The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful." [...] Adit Gupta, Smashing Magazine (2010-02-09) 2009-02-23T17:45:04+01:00 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/09/applying-mathematics-to-web-design/ B657918A-E70E-48B8-8302-EEF2CAE2FB63 People use websites to make decisions-from what product to buy to what health treatment to seek. [1][2][3] When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, web professionals need to understand the rhetorical concept of kairos [...] Colleen Jones, ALA (2010-02-09) 2009-02-23T17:45:03+01:00 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/words-that-zing/ F6FA00B8-E9D8-42EF-86B2-9B52BDEE0C75 In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I'm sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes. Well, that's where Part 3 comes in. Here we'll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch [...] Cameron Chapman, Smashing Magazine (2010-02-08) 2009-02-23T17:45:02+01:00 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/08/color-theory-for-designer-part-3-creating-your-own-color-palettes/ 2A03B3FC-1CD3-43BA-908B-9B090AE2D611 Revue de Web : utilisabilité, accessibilité et webdesign, les actualités de l'année 2010, classées par mois 2010-02-23T18:00:05+01:00 Patrice Bourlon - CollectiWeb.fr http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2010.php http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2010.php Revue de Web : utilisabilité, accessibilité et webdesign, les actualités de l'année 2009, classées par mois 2009-12-31T08:00:00+01:00 Patrice Bourlon - CollectiWeb.fr http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2009.php http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2009.php Revue de Web : utilisabilité, accessibilité et webdesign, les actualités de l'année 2008, classées par mois 2008-12-31T08:00:00+01:00 Patrice Bourlon - CollectiWeb.fr http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2008.php http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2008.php Revue de Web : utilisabilité, accessibilité et webdesign, les actualités de l'année 2007, classées par mois 2007-12-31T08:00:00+01:00 http://www.collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2007.php Patrice Bourlon - CollectiWeb.fr http://collectiweb.fr/sur-le-web-archives-2007.php