off to Hanover
Saturday, July 14th, 2007for a wedding. all my friends are getting hitched lately.
Archive for July, 2007
Where the heck is Spore?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I feel like I’ve been waiting a decade for EA’s massive game of evolutionary development. Is the this the biggest piece of vaporware every prophesized?
Thinking about hyperlinking best practices
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Hyperlinking best practices, pt. 1: Visual presentation of links - jotsheet: “A good place to start on this subject is an essay from the usability nazi himself, Jakob Nielsen. In probably his best Alertbox ever, Nielsen covers the usability of hyperlinking. Amazingly, I agree with just about everything he says here, except that I think it’s possible to be too ugly with hyperlinks, whereas science has been unable to determine that Jakob Nielsen has any sense of “too ugly”—or even any sense of design in general. No matter.”
That’s quite funny. We’re struggling with how to present links in BigTreeTop at the moment. Underlining everything creates an incredible amount of clutter. Differentiating links by color on a screen already replete with color-coded information is not a good option either. I would like to do dotted underlines, but CSS2 doesn’t support that.
any suggestions?
Lost in Boston
Monday, July 2nd, 2007I’ve never lived in a big city before. I’ve visited, but the expectation when you’re visiting is that you’ll be eating out and spending money. Now that I’m faced with an indeterminate stay, I’ve got to figure out how to LIVE in a city.
Finding anything in Boston (supermarket, gas station, bank) is like trying to find a set of keys in a cluttered living room — after someone has released a hive of bees into the space.