HCI + Information Architecture / Web Development links

Jonathan Cross : 2008-08-18

Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 | Web 3.0 | AJAX | XHR | HCI | Semantic web
• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

• Web UI Libraries / Frameworks

  • A Comparison of JS libraries
  • SlickSpeed (perfomance comparison)
  • Adobe: Spry and Air
  • Dojo toolkit
  • Ext JS
  • jQuery
  • Moo Tools
    • Moo FX
  • ZK

  • Prototype

    • Prototype (official)
    • Prototype (wikipedia)
    • script.aculo.us
    • Rico

  • Yahoo!

    • YUI
    • Pipes

• Google

  • GWT
  • GWT Widget Library
  • Google Gears
  • Geocoding
  • Google Mashup Editor

• Techniques / Concepts

  • CSS Spriting (list apart)
  • CSS Web Sprite generator
  • Canvas tag for IE
  • Canvas tutorial
  • Javascript Closures
  • JavaScript Closures 101- they're not magic

Content Management (CMS)

• Joomla
• Drupal
• Rhythmyx
• Interwoven
• Documentum
• Vignette

Software development

• Use case
• SME (Subject Matter Expert)
• SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
• User Acceptance testing
• Scenerio Computing
• Canonical Design

Information Architecture

• IA (Evolt)
• IA (wikipedia)
• Information Architecture Institute
• Information Architecture Visual Vocabularies

HCI (Human-computer interaction)

• Wikipedia definition
• Large List of human-computer interaction topics

• User-centered design

  • User-centered design (wikipedia).
  • (User-centered) Cognitive Design
  • Persona Development
  • Usefulness
  • Usability
  • Interaction design
• Principles of User Interface Design
• Human Interface Design Principles. (Apple)

Markup Languages

• UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
• RSS (feed)
• Atom (feed)
• RDF
• SVG

Quotes

• Unix Philosophy (C programming):
  • "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." (C. A. R. Hoare)
  • "When in doubt, use brute force." (Ken Thompson)
• "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
• "Rule of Extensibility: Design for the future, because it will be here sooner than you think." (Eric S. Raymond)