Popular Articles (updated 07 May 2006)  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Sort By: Date Who   Popular   Title Aug 2005    OKC  *  376 Does Communication Everywhere Improve Communication? Apr 2005    POY  *  349 A Banner Decade May 1996    JN  *  329 Top ten mistakes of Web design Apr 2000    IF  *  321 Why the future doesn't need us By Bill Joy Jun 2004    JOS  *  309 How Microsoft Lost the API War Oct 2003    JOS  *  291 The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Jan 1985    IF  *  286 The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman Nov 2001    ALA  *  282 Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets Feb 2003    SKY  *  273 Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality Aug 2003    UIE  *  267 Design Patterns: An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites Apr 2001    FLZ  *  253 Developing User-Friendly Flash Content Dec 2004    JN  *  245 The Most Hated Advertising Techniques Oct 1997    JN  *  245 How people read on the Web Sep 2004    POY  *  200 The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes Mar 2005    DW  *  199 Easy-peasy PHP Nov 2002    JOS  *  189 The Law of Leaky Abstractions Oct 2000    JN  *  188 Flash: 99% Bad Jul 1945    IF  *  181 As We May Think By Vannevar Bush Nov 2005    UN  *  179 Andrew’s Usability in the Real World: Who are our Users? Jun 2004    SLA  *  179 Are the Browser Wars Back? : How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer Sep 2004    EVO  *  175 Ten CSS tricks you may not know Aug 2004    ALA  *  172 Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen Jul 2003    SKY  *  172 A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy Nov 2005    UN  *  169 Media: Peter Cochrane on excessive Key-stroking Nov 2004    ALA  *  168 Invasion of the Body Switchers Mar 2005    UN  *  167 Nearly Twice as many US Americans bank online than in late 2002 Nov 2005    UN  *  166 National Award Opportunities for UK Leaders in Innovation Aug 2001    ALA  *  166 Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks & Techniques May 1999    JN  *  166 The top ten new mistakes of web design Nov 2005    UN  *  165 Media: Boxes and Arrows gives us Kindergarten Design Aug 2005    UN  *  165 Context Special: Beads as Remote Chat for Teenagers Aug 2005    UN  *  164 Context Special: What Mobile Phones say without Words Aug 2005    UN  *  163 Media Context Special: UIE on why Context matters Aug 2005    UN  *  163 Context Special: Re-evaluating the Relationship between Context and Action Nov 2005    UN  *  162 Media: Good Experience on Integrated Experience Design Aug 2005    UN  *  161 Public Needs should drive Digital Innovation, says ippr Aug 2005    UN  *  161 Caroline's Corner: Sentence or Title Case for Labels? Mar 2005    ALA  *  161 Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope Aug 2005    UN  *  159 Media: JohnnieMoore on Getting away from Boring Conferences Nov 2005    UN  *  157 User Experience Magazine launches on Web Apr 2004    ALA  *  157 CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows Oct 2003    FIND  *  152 How Much Information 2003 Jul 2004    POY  *  151 Breaking From the Crowd: A Compact News Homepage Jul 2004    POY  *  151 E-books: Not There Yet Jul 2004    POY  *  151 Is the Beeb Online Being Punished for Greatness? Jun 2004    POY  *  151 Forced Registration: Isn't There a Better Way? May 2004    POY  *  151 A Better Technique for Enlarge-This Web Photos? Apr 2004    POY  *  151 Search Ads Hit Banners Hard Mar 2004    POY  *  151 Up, Up, & Away Feb 2004    POY  *  151 The Next Big Failure: Digital Editions? Dec 2001    ALA  *  150 Why Don’t You Code for Netscape? Dec 2004    PEW  *  149 Artists, Musicians and the Internet Aug 2004    ALA  *  149 A Better Image Rotator Nov 2005    UN  *  147 Votes go to Morphed Images that look most like the Voter, finds Study Nov 2005    UN  *  146 EU makes Presentations on Addressing e-Inclusion Issues Jun 2004    ALA  *  144 Dynamic Text Replacement Jun 2002    WW  *  143 About the Blogosphere Aug 1997    FIND  *  141 The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine Dec 1968    ENG  *  139 FJCC Demo of Augment Research Center, San Francisco, California, 9 December 1968 Dec 1968    IF  *  139 Doug Engelbart vision, NLS, Augment Dec 2002    FIND  *  137 Search Engine Optimisation Tips Dec 1996    JN  *  137 Why frames suck most of the time Mar 2003    SKY  *  136 Permanet, Nearlynet, and wireless data Mar 2005    UN  *  134 Media: Cambridge Blog finds Design Museum Exhibition lacklustre Mar 2005    UN  *  134 Feature: When the Going gets Tough, where's the Funding? Mar 2005    UN  *  133 Media: Nesta Futurelab looks at the Place of Technology in Education Dec 2002    JN  *  133 Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 Apr 2002    ALA  *  133 Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE Mar 2005    UN  *  132 Brief: EU governments approve contentious software patent bill Feb 2004    PEW  *  132 Content Creation Online: 44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world Mar 2005    UN  *  131 Andrew’s Usability in the Real World: Living with the Nintendo DS Oct 2003    ALA  *  131 Sliding Doors of CSS Jan 2002    JOS  *  131 Fire And Motion Dec 2004    TOG  *  130 Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs Nov 2005    UN  *  129 Media: IBM's Evaluation of Different Technology Implementation Methods Jun 2004    ALA  *  128 Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style Dec 2003    JN  *  128 Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 Nov 2003    FIND  *  125 The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview Nov 2003    SKY  *  125 The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview May 1999    JN  *  125 Top Ten Mistakes revisited three years later Apr 2005    UN  *  124 Interactionary puts Design Teams through RFID Challenge Feb 2005    JEF  *  124 Jef Raskin passed away peacefully on Saturday February 26th, 2005 our condolences go out to Jef's family, friends and wider community. Jul 2004    ALA  *  124 Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention Apr 2005    UN  *  123 Media: Alertbox on Medical Unusability Aug 2004    ALA  *  121 Enhance Usability by Highlighting Search Terms Mar 2005    JN  *  120 Lower-Literacy Users Mar 2005    UN  *  119 Semantic Web Interface improves Presentation of Search Information Jun 1956    IF  *  118 The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two by George A Miller Dec 2004    EVO  *  117 Your Customer Is A Search Engine Jun 2004    ALA  *  116 Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins Mar 1998    SKY  *  116 In Praise of Evolvable Systems Mar 2004    SKY  *  115 Situated Software Sep 1998    JN  *  115 Microcontent: writing headlines, page titles, and email subject lines Jan 2004    SAL  *  114 The phones don't stop (Part one) Jan 2004    SAL  *  112 The phones don't stop (Part two) Nov 2003    ALA  *  112 Suckerfish Dropdowns Apr 2005    UN  *  111 Media: TheFeature on Mobile Phones and their Complexities Nov 2005    UN  *  108 Linux gets Usability Support Jan 2004    FAST  *  108 Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation Jul 2003    JN  *  108 PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption May 2002    ALA  *  108 CSS Beyond the Browser: Going to Print Apr 2005    UN  *  107 Designing a Workshop: The Benefits of Non-Place Dec 1994    JN  *  107 Ten Usability Heuristics Mar 2005    GAM  *  106 What Makes Music for Games "Music for Games"? Mar 2005    GAM  *  104 Global Mobile Games: New Business Models, Hit Games, and Mobile People from Around the Planet Mar 2005    UN  *  104 Feature: Tools of Inspiration Mar 2005    UN  *  103 Media: Computer Weekly looks at the Impact of Outsourcing on Customer Relations Jan 2004    ALA  *  103 Faux Columns Feb 2001    ALA  *  102 To Hell With Bad Browsers Aug 2004    ALA  *  101 Better Invoices for Better Business May 2001    FIND  *  101 The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee Mar 1997    JN  *  101 Be succinct: how to write for the Web Dec 2004    ASK  *  100 The Terminal Sep 2003    SKY  *  99 Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content Apr 2004    ALA  *  98 Mountaintop Corners Sep 2002    DW  *  98 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete May 1999    DAN  *  98 VisiCalc: Information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston May 2004    ALA  *  96 Onion Skinned Drop Shadows Feb 2004    BAA  *  93 Planning your future May 2003    FIND  *  92 Are You Ready for Social Software? Sep 2004    JOS  *  91 It's Not Just Usability Oct 2002    IR  *  91 The nonsense of 'knowledge management' Mar 2000    JN  *  90 Why you only need to test with 5 users May 2004    ALA  *  88 Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma Jun 1999    FIND  *  87 The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? Jun 2004    ALA  *  86 Dynamically Conjuring Drop-Down Navigation May 2004    ALA  *  86 Art Direction and the Web Jan 2001    TOG  *  86 First Principles Of Design May 2002    JN  *  85 Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability Sep 2001    FIND  *  85 The Semantic Web: An Introduction Jul 2005    UIW  *  82 How to learn from your mistakes Apr 2004    ALA  *  82 What Is Web Accessibility? Mar 1996    FIND  *  81 Ubiquitous Computing Dec 2003    JOS  *  80 Biculturalism Feb 2001    ALA  *  80 A Web Designer's Journey Nov 2005    UN  *  79 Clackmannanshire Council Website wins top Prize for Acessibility Mar 2005    SLA  *  79 Newsmashing: The new technique that will change blogging forever Jul 2004    DAN  *  78 Software That Lasts 200 Years Jan 2004    ALA  *  78 The Perfect 404 Mar 2003    FIND  *  78 Social Software and the Politics of Groups Mar 2003    SKY  *  78 Social Software and the Politics of Groups Apr 2005    UN  *  77 Copernican Awards announced for Companies that Orbit their Customers Apr 2004    ALA  *  77 Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes Feb 2001    ALA  *  75 Better Living Through XHTML Aug 2000    JOS  *  75 The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code Jul 2005    UN  *  74 CHI2005: How Groups of People use iTunes to listen to Music and manage their Work Identities Sep 2003    JOS  *  74 Bionic Office May 2004    ALA  *  73 Print It Your Way Nov 2002    ALA  *  73 Flash Satay Apr 2005    UN  *  72 Media: Wired looks at the new Thinking Skills needed for Life with Abundance Mar 2004    SLA  *  70 How To Speed-Read the Net Feb 1999    TOG  *  70 A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts Mar 2005    BBC  *  69 What price for 'trusted PC security'? Apr 2004    ALA  *  69 Let Them Eat Cake Sep 2002    ALA  *  69 CSS Design: Taming Lists Mar 2005    UN  *  68 Serco Usability Services publishes Design Guidelines for Handheld Gaming. Nov 2004    SKY  *  68 Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software Nov 2003    JN  *  68 The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines Nov 2003    SPT  *  68 What is a Wiki? Apr 2001    JOS  *  68 Things You Should Never Do, Part I Apr 2005    UN  *  67 Media: Clickz reports on an Awakening in the Media to Targeting Mar 2005    UN  *  67 Media: New Thinking on the Strategy behind Use Apr 2004    ALA  *  67 The Problem, the Balloon, and the Four Bedroom House Feb 2004    ALA  *  66 CSS Drop Shadows Aug 2002    ALA  *  66 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web Dec 2004    DW  *  65 Bridging the Gap Between User and Business Goals Jan 2004    JOS  *  65 Getting Your Resume Read Apr 2002    FIND  *  65 Inventing the Future Oct 1999    JN  *  65 Ten good deeds in web design Aug 2005    UN  *  64 Russell Reflects: Having fun, or taking professional development Opportunities Jul 2005    UN  *  64 Media: Kafka anti-bureaucracy Website yields Streamline Government May 2005    UN  *  64 Media Accessibility Special : eGov Monitor assesses Access to on Museums and Archives Jan 2004    FIND  *  64 UCLA World Internet Report Oct 2002    SKY  *  64 Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing Jun 1998    JN  *  64 Fighting linkrot Oct 2002    ALA  *  63 Build a PHP Switcher Jun 2002    FIND  *  63 Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility Mar 2004    ALA  *  62 CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death Jun 2002    JOS  *  62 Strategy Letter V Jan 1999    JN  *  62 The difference between print design and Web design May 2005    UN  *  61 Media: Creating Passionate Users picks up on Context May 2005    UN  *  61 Accessibility Special: On the Usability & Accessibility Campaign Trail Mar 2005    GAM  *  61 GDC Report: Will Wright's "The Future of Content" Lecture Oct 2004    ADP  *  60 Metadata for the Masses Sep 2003    SAL  *  59 An open invitation to election fraud Apr 2003    BAA  *  59 Building a Metadata-Based Website Nov 2002    R4  *  59 Mixed Feelings Nov 2002    R4  *  59 Pale yellow Cs, turquoise Thursdays and wine-flavoured Vs Apr 2002    ALA  *  59 Flash MX: Moving Toward Accessible Rich Media Mar 2005    ALA  *  58 Hybrid CSS Dropdowns Jan 2004    ALA  *  58 Elastic Design Dec 2003    ALA  *  58 CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders Jul 2003    ADP  *  58 The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams Jul 2003    INFD  *  58 The Birth of BogieLand Dec 2001    MCG  *  58 Information architecture versus graphic design Nov 2004    DW  *  57 The End of Usability Culture Nov 2003    DON  *  57 In Praise of Good Design: Products and their virtues Jul 1997    JN  *  57 Effective use of style sheets Nov 2003    ALA  *  56 Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards Mar 2000    JOS  *  56 The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Jun 1996    JN  *  56 How to write inverted pyramids in cyberspace Jun 2004    BBC  *  55 What Europe's download services offer Apr 2004    JN  *  55 Why Mobile Phones are Annoying Apr 2005    UN  *  54 Designing a Workshop: A Journey from Design to Use Oct 2003    ALA  *  54 Random Image Rotation Aug 2003    JN  *  54 Usability 101 Aug 2003    JN  *  54 Information Pollution Jan 2000    JN  *  54 Is navigation useful? Dec 2005    BUX  *  53 A Significant Change Apr 2005    UN  *  53 Media: The Guardian looks at how Email dumbs down Nov 2004    DW  *  53 Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content Apr 2002    ALA  *  53 Flash MX: Clarifying the Concept Apr 2005    UN  *  52 Media: CHI 2005: OK/Cancel tackles giving Conference Papers Dec 2004    DLIB  *  52 The Role of RSS in Science Publishing Oct 2003    R4  *  52 James Clerk Maxwell May 2002    SAL  *  51 When 300 baud was the bomb Jan 2003    JN  *  50 Return on Investment for Usability Jan 2003    FIND  *  50 Return on Investment for Usability          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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