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UI Design Newsletter – Past Issues

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Past Issues Topics Covered
   

December, 1999

Web Design Guidelines – What research-based guidelines are available for designing websites?

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November, 1999

Optimum Time of Day for Optimum Performance – How can we ensure that older users perform as well as younger users in systems? Do younger and older users perform better at different times of the day?

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October, 1999

User Interface Displays – What direction are we going with user interface displays? Predictions for the future.

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September, 1999

Multimedia and Working Memory Limitations – Working memory capacity can be "increased" by using two senses rather than one.
Using Multimedia in Instruction – Some guidlelines.

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August, 1999

Web Site Identity – The logo tells where you are

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July, 1999

e-Commerce and Screen Design – Usability more important than "fancy store fronts".
e-Commerce Pricing – Buyers prefer sales to "everyday low prices".

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June, 1999

Handedness and Other Preferences – Designing to ensure that critical tasks are performed by the user's preferred hand – not as obvious as one might think.

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May, 1999

Heuristic Evaluations – Is there a useful set of usability heuristics currently available to practitioners? There is, but unfortunately the best set is not the one most widely used.

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April, 1999

Paging vs. Scrolling – No difference in speed, but paging results in better comprehension and memory of information.
Paging vs. Scrolling – Paging works better for older users.

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March, 1999

Breadth vs. Depth – Broader structures enable faster performance.
Breadth vs. Depth – 2 is the magic number.

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February, 1999

Screen Fonts – Study shows that fonts designed for screen viewing give no reliable performance differences in reading speed.
Speed Reading – Successively flashing individual words on screen improves reading performance.

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January, 1999

Reading Speed and ComprehensionThen and Now – Paper vs. computer monitors – high resolution monitors change the results.