via tech_rhet. Move away from teaching and using proprietary software - from Word to Dreamweaver - and start incorporating open source and web-based stuff - the kind of stuff that students can use to get beyond the proprietary. Excellent little article, but I wonder what took them so long to figure this out. Academia doesn't move as slowly as all that. Been doing this, and wrestling with it, for years. Might want to read this in conjunction with TBL's Long Live the Web.

I added the WPTouch plugin to mcmorgan.org/blog. It is superb: well-designed for the small screen, fast, detailed in its execution. It's value-added for visitors to a WP-blog.

"WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple's app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme."

A passable review of what web developers see a valuable in learning web development and design. As expected, the focus is on understanding theory, engagement, malleable learners. The article stereotypes higher ed courses as too slow to adapt. Also relies on the outdated bicameral mind to address the differences in practices in development and design. Worth tapping into.

One of the first of doubtless many posts on the rev of the White House web site and new blog. Solid observations about the design and its social/political significance.

The Hyperlink as Organizing Principle

Javascripts that check text on web or file.

Web Trends map as clickable. Still difficult to use, but interesting to play with.

Web trends mapped modeled on London Underground map. Requires some work to actually use it, but engaging.

sets out some general principles of interface design, drawn from examples. Good fpr WCW and Web Design to get students looking at interfaces.

An interesting flash-based project, making use of TS: texts, critical studies, computational analysis - and an interesting design

crit of nielsen's findings of reading online.

Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, Images of UI sketches

as adapted from A White - and just about every visual design text published

UK-based (with UK aesthetic) basics through advanced - and with a noble goals "Insight into the core thinking that supports the design of effective and usable web sites." Yes.

A brilliant example of a screencast: well organized, well produced ... and good software, too.

Yet another argument for using persona in design - and how to get over the seeming sillieness of compiling them. Play air guitar.

Sedley. Cf his A-Z: this list is focused on what he calls "persuation windows" aka kairotic moments, or just plain ol' kairos.

podcast. Richard Sedley. Solid intro to persuasion - and how it applies to web development and writing, with a focus on basing rhetorical strats on current psychological theory.

Part of Stanford Web Cred Research. A table of 10 guidelines,

from a commercial UK web design and consulting site

the study of computers as persuasive technology. The blog is the most interesting section.

An OV page

Denin is an open source app for early web design and prototyping.

critique of the Chasing Crusoe multimedia presentation: squanders the opportunity to really develop the text. But it looks like the project is supposed to be a mass media story rather than a deep text.

companion piece to Card sorting: a definitive guide

background on wikii IA

older article critiquing Nielsen - sometimes more for his attitude than on the basis of his ideas of usability.

A contemporary design of university website - gone bad!

excellent example of site design anaysis: neutral, considered, based on close observation

how embedding img src in a page does not violate copyright: " It's no violation of copyright for me to point your browser to their freely available cartoon."

Scott McCloud, online comics designed as web pages.

also published at http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/usersadvocate/usersadvocate_webaudience.html Emphasis on content, including links, etc. Right at the beginning of web2.0, advocates making content available for free., providing communities, .

Constance Petersen. 10 suggestions. The virtue with this work over others is that Peterson connects the suggestion to end/effect: use a list to slow readers down; simplify for understanding, etc.

when dreamweaver goes away. uses web design process to adapt drupal to well-stated purposes. what it means for web design and wcw: projects will deal with selecting the right cms for the job, finessing the css, etc

way ott promotional text from a paper mill.