Bernstein, Mark (7 links)
Items by Bernstein, Mark.
Beyond usability and design: The narrative web
http://old.alistapart.com/stories/narrative/
Story-telling and building relationships.
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Content (15)
Destination: A List Apart (3)
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April 20, 2001
Span of Attention
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Attention.html
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Content (15)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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March 3, 1999
Judging Web Sites: Usability or Criticism?
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Merit.html
Compares criticism with usability studies.
Usability testing, performance measurement, and reader surveys are compared in terms of how they each stand as measures of success.
Some good quotes from it:
- A well-advertised Web site is not necessarily a good one.
- Important writing is not necessarily popular
- Readers often claim to like what they believe they ought to like
Topic:
Reviews (14)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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October 1, 1998
Link Types: a Second Look
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Trigg.html
Taxonomy of link types from hypermedia research days.
Mark Bernstein takes a look at Randy Trigg's 1983 thesis on link types and adds comments on the need for multivalent messages.
The Web infrastructure does not yet support typed links, of course. Trigg's taxonomy is still interesting to help you think about particular link types for particular Web applications, however.
Topics:
Linking (10),
Hypermedia (10)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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October 31, 1997
Hypertext Maps
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Maps.html
Challenges of making graphical link overviews.
Mark Bernstein talks about some of this issues involved in making informative maps. Automatically-generated maps usually are inadequate, but some tools can make manually-created maps easy and fun.
Topic:
Supplemental Navigation (7)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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October 31, 1997
Showing Links
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/ShowingLinks.html
How do we make links visible, without making them distracting?
Colored links can be considered a design error, but Mark Bernstein gives some advice on how to live with the mistake.
He also provides an historical note on showing links from the past hypermedia systems.
Topic:
Linking (10)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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October 31, 1997
Defying Akscyn's Law
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Akscyn.html
Research on importance of swift link traversal.
Old research says 1/4 second is the right amount of time for going from one place to the next in hypertext.
Topics:
Speed (10),
Linking (10)
Destination: HypertextNOW (6)
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January 16, 1997
