| OSNews__Exploring_the_Future_of_Computing Weblog style online magazine on operating systems and computing environments. Daily updates, reader forum with many comments. |
| Advertising_on_Usenet__How_to_do_it,_How_not_to_do_it_ Explains some Usenet conventions regarding advertising to new users. |
| Anti_Troll_FAQ Explains what a troll is, how to deal with trolling and discusses why people post trolls to the Usenet. |
| AOL_newsgroup_FAQs Hyperlinked version of the AOL newsgroup FAQs, which are posted to news://aol.newsgroups.help every Saturday. |
| Arcane_Archive_FAQ_Directory FAQs for groups in alt.magick, alt.religion, and other related groups. Covers Occultism, Mysticism, Religion, and Magic. |
| The_Bincancel_FAQ Explains in detail why posting huge binaries to non-binary newsgroups is inappropriate. |
| The_Cancel_FAQ Discusses what cancellation is, how it works, and the implications of cancelling messages. |
| FAQ_you A small collection of various FAQs. |
| Godwin\'s_Law_FAQ How to post about Nazis and get away with it -- explains "Godwin's Law". |
| Moderated_Newsgroups_FAQ Newsgroup moderation methods and concepts described for new users, prospective moderators, newsgroup moderation proponents and opponents. |
| net_legends_FAQ Noticeable phenomena of Usenet. Not completely factual, but as close as can be, given that in some cases the facts are known only to one person or have been lost in the mists of time. |
| newzguide Introduction to Usenet with tutorials for selected news readers and file formats. |
| The_Subtle_Art_of_Trolling A guide to recreational trolling that defines a troll on Usenet and explains how to create entertaining trolls using many examples. |
| Usenet_References Collection of FAQs and other introductory documents about Usenet. Somewhat dated but still very useful. |
| Utrecht_CS_News_Answers_FAQ_Access_Methods A searchable directory of Usenet FAQs and other periodic, informative articles, posted in the Usenet newsgroup news.answers. |
| All_time_MSX Cheats for some games. |
| Fudeba Well updated page with reviews of software, along with MSX news and events around the world. Also available in portuguese. |
| Manuel_Bilderbeek\'s_MSX_page All about this dutch student and his MSX, including photos, program and his plan file. |
| MSX_Brazilian_Team_Homepage Free software, news, hardware, magazines, emulators, MSX projects, games top ten, events, clubs, links and the MSX World Magazine Online. Weekly updated. |
| The_Ultimate_MSX_FAQ This FAQ contains information about the MSX system and its expansions. |
| Alenka\'s_Printables Linkware web sets, templates, and printable stationery such as, gift tags, recipe cards, labels, letterhead, wish lists and shopping lists. |
| All_Free_Backgrounds Selection of free backgrounds and graphics for web pages. Web color resources, tools and design, tips to help create a successful website. |
| Art_I_Need Original collection of royalty free clipart, illustrations, webart, photos, fonts and sounds for the use by web designers, graphic artists, students and professionals in web sites, printing projects a |
| Bannerite_com HTML email, banner ad, web site and landing page design studio. |
| BannerServer_com Offers flash banners, template and logo design and vector graphic production. |
| BK2K_com Free web graphics, web design HTML tutorials and tips. Book and software reviews, and web design. |
| Boogie_Jack\'s_Web_Depot Webmasters resource with free high quality web page graphics, tools, HTML, CSS and graphic tutorials, cut and paste JavaScript, and sound effects. |
| Candi\'s_World Offers candle bars, animated and static hand drawn dolls, and web counters for adoptions. Coordinated web sets, and clipart, also offers custom Diva tags, samples views provided. Premades, signature t |
| Cricket_Cottage_Collections Pre-made graphics, such as adoptions for adoption shop, and sigtags for emails. |
| Design_in_Reflection Ready-made web page templates, linkware web sets, blog templates, background titles and desktop wallpapers free. Providing web design solutions for small business and personal pages. |
| DesignGraphics_org Designs animated, static and flash banners, logos, favicons and web graphics. |
| Designs_by_Elizabeth Border background sets for holidays, weddings, homepages, children, and special events as well as clip art, background tiles, and psychology art. Graphics are freeware and purchaseware. |
| DoubleBite_Graphix_and_Web_Design Custom graphics including websets, signature tags, interfaces, email stationary, HTML templates, as well as web site design. |
| Everything_Kimberli Offers web sets, splash pages, Paint Shop Pro tubes and layers, printables, sig tags, and web templates. Membership required for full access. |
| Freeimages_Collections Free membership to resources for designers' backgrounds, images, and photo collections. |
| GJDesigns Offers originally designed graphics to webmasters and e-mailers. Paint Shop Pro tutorials on making cartoon dolls, host amateur graphics contests, free greeting cards, animated names, blinkies, cartoo |
| Grafiquest_com Home of designer web graphics and website Flash, GIF, or static templates for the professional designer. Free templates and individual graphics elements available. |
| Graphic_Momentum Offers backgrounds, textures, dividers, and GIFs. Web site design, custom graphics, and photo restoration, a large portion of proceeds are donated to The Fanconi Anemia Research Fund. |
| Graphics_and_Beyond Customized graphics and logos, and web graphics. |
| Graphics_By_CandeeKis Offers linkware backgrounds and bordered background sets. Downloadable graphics, custom web design, Macromedia Flash design, PSP tutorials, Photo Impact tutorials, photos, screensavers, and additional |
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UI Designs is devoted to information and discussion about the design of cooperative technology. It grew out of our book Designing From Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology. We hope to use this website to continue the conversation initiated in the book.
— Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski
Designing From Both Sides of the Screen:How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative TechnologyBy Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski
Written from the perspectives of both a user interface designer and a software engineer, this practical guide shows you how to make technology that cooperates with people. It begins by describing a set of design principles that apply to a broad range of technologies — handheld, wireless, and embedded devices in addition to desktop and Web software. These principles are illustrated with many positive and negative examples from existing products, showing how good designs help you flow in your task and don't get in the way.
Since design principles do not show you how to build cooperative technology, the book goes on to show how these principles are applied in practice during the design and development process. The authors demonstrate how they built a full-featured instant messenger application that runs on Palms and PCs. By discussing a realistic example, they are able to describe the many subtle tradeoffs that arise between design and engineering goals. Through simulated conversations, they show how they came to understand each other's goals and constraints and found solutions that addressed both of their needs.
While it illustrates the entire development process, the book emphasizes the importance of three phases:
understanding how people carry out the tasks that the technology will support
designing a user interface specification up front and then designing the system architecture to support it
observing people using the system under realistic conditions during development and iterating to smooth out ease of use problems.
You will see how the authors followed these steps and dramatically improved the usability and usefulness of the system that they designed and built. This book demonstrates rather than just describes how to build cooperative technology.
(c) 2002 Ellen Isaacs and Alan Walendowski
