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The many risks involved in Web development

Andy Budd explores the many risks involved in Web development and offers some excellent techniques to identify and manage risk for the benefit of Web designers and their clients. Read about it here.

Making Personas More Powerful: Details to Drive Strategic and Tactical Design

A persona is a user archetype you can use to help guide decisions about product features, navigation, interactions, and even visual design.

George Olsen dives deeper into personas and what their true intention should be.
Read more here.

Hillman Curtis

Now and then we'll call attention to those individuals that define the fine art of web design.

Hillman was named as one of the top ten designers by the IPPA, included in the “ten most wanted” by IDN magazine, and as one of the “Worlds best Flash designers” by Create Online.

Check out his web site here.

Got Usability? Talking with Jakob Nielsen

Chad Thornton conducts an interview with Jakob Nielsen, who is the usability guru who hardly needs an introduction. He’s brought usability to the attention of the general public, but within the user experience community he’s been criticized by those who say he emphasizes a puritanical view of utilitarianism that excludes other dimensions of user experience. Read the entire article here.

Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space

Jason Withrow article covers the topic of Understanding the structure of an information space for a website. He conveys it boils down to the following questions:

* What is the information structure?
* How do I visually represent that structure?
* What relationships exist among the web pages?
* How are those page relationships represented?

This article is courtesy of boxes and arrows.

12 Website Design Decisions

Dr. Ralph F. Wilson points out 12 decisions involved with developing a website.

Branding on the Internet

Helena Rubinstein, Managing Director and founder of the lab, a strategy company that focuses on branding and other related intangible issues. She is an expert on brand strategy and organisation and has had the privilege of working with many blue-chip companies such as Motorola, British Telecom, Gillette, McDonald's, Coca Cola and Shell to name but a few. In this article she covers branding on the Internet.
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Web question of the day: What is dithering?

Full-color photographs may contain an almost infinite range of color values. Dithering is the most common means of reducing the color range of images down to the 256 (or fewer) colors seen in 8-bit GIF images.
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Target hits a bullseye

Exemplified by the bulls-eye logo, Target is an American retail brand that aims straight for consumers. According to its website, Target’s “department store roots” sets it apart from competing mass merchandisers. Article written by Vivian Manning-Schaffel.