I hope you all had a great holiday. Still working off “Turkey Torpor” here, but getting back in the saddle. Slowly.
Some fun to start out the day with: Mr Picassohead (Flash Required).
Here’s an enterprise-level RSS aggregator called k-collector, which purports to “collect and automatically organize contents from several different sources inside and outside any organization.” From a brief reading, it appears to take RSS feeds and organize them by Author, Topic, Location, and Date.
The CMS Report I previously linked to has released Version 5.
And just when the old “Usability vs. Design” argument seemed to have died down, ClickZ stokes the ashes with a article entitled “Are Usability Experts Any Use?”, wherein the author claims that “Quality and usability are the table stakes. But it’s design that really matters.”
The biggest issue I see with this thought is the sequence seems wrong. If you’re visiting a site for the first time, you experience the design before you can judge if it’s usable, so I’m not sure how usability is a “table stake”.
Not that I think design is unimportant, but if I had a fixed budget and had to choose, usability work would win every time.
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