Author: Dan Rubin

• Art
  Direction and the Web Stephen
  Hay — A List Apart
• Understanding
  Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success Jonathan
  Boutelle — Boxes and Arrows
• The
  Trouble with Business as Usual Adam
  Greenfield — v-2 Organisation
• Jumping
  Barriers: Using Design to Aid Technology Adoption (PDF) Dan
  Saffer — Carnegie Mellon University
• News Standards: A Rising Tide of Commoditization
  Jo Rabin — XML.com
• Et Tu, Brute?
  Andrei Herasimchuk — Design by Fire

In my previous post, Jon Hicks raised the IE6 flickering issue, which has been tormenting designers and coders alike for too long now. At first I thought there was no elegant solution to this problem, but after a few error and trial sessions I came up with a solution that gets rid of the flickering — in any situation.

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This method has been updated! See Navigation Matrix Reloaded.

It’s been a while since I shared my last navigation experiment. This new experiment is, as the first one, based exclusively on graphics — therefore the same usability and accessiblity cautions apply. Unsurprisingly, once CSS is disabled, a nice unordered list should remain. I probably don’t need to explicitely mention that this example is constructed using well-formed and semantic XHTML instead of tables. All the tabs work and are linked to 4 individual html pages (welcome.html, products.html, support.html and contact.html) that each load the same stylesheet.

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• 
  I Would RTFM If There Was an FM to FR
  Andrei Herasimchuk — Design by Fire
• 
  More Reasons to Love Google
  Joanna Glasner — Wired
• 
  Another Look at Designing for the Edge Case
  Robert Scoble — Scobleizer
• 
  Nodes of Design Inspiration
  Cameron Moll — Authentic Boredom
• 
  Better Nation Building Through Design
  Michael Bierut — Design Observer

• 
  Vote For Your Favorite Master of Design
  Fast Company
• 
  Usability Basics
  Henrik Olsen — GUUUI!
• 
  Why Study Rome When You Can Build It?
  Henry Jenkins — MIT Technology Review
• 
  Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research
  Andrew Hinton — Boxes and Arrows