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- Popout Prism
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http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/popoutprism/ “What is Popout Prism?
Popout Prism is an intuitive, elegant tool to reduce the amount of time users spend looking for information in Web pages. By creating visual “popouts” that emphasize critical elements in Web pages, Popout Prism draws users’ attention to the right information.”
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- Metadata for the Web
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Metadata is essential web writing skill: Part 1: June 02, 2003 issue of New Thinking by Gerry McGovern: “Metadata is the: who, what, where, when and how, of your content. It is that 30 second elevator description. Metadata may include: heading/title, summary/description, author name, date of publication, geographic classification, subject classification, keywords. ”
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- The Magic Number
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Guardian Unlimited | Online | 1.618 is the magic number “What’s the significance of this number? It’s the “golden ratio” and, arguably, it crops up in more places in art, music and so on than any number except pi.”
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- Human Frailties Overlooked by Designers
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Alinta Thornton shows how human frailties are often overlooked by technology designers - On Line Opinion 12/5/03: “It’s often more productive to take more notice of what people do than what they say they do. For that you need to watch people using your designs doing real tasks.”