Tag: web design

The Edward Tufte One Day Course

Edward Tufte was in Chicago this past week, offering up his one-day course “Presenting Data and Information.” Edward Tufte is widely...
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Communicating on the Web: Applying Known Models to New Information

I’ve seen this before, but it just fully hit me today – WordPress.org uses an interesting method of communicating information on...
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Northwestern University Secondary Teacher Award Site Launches

This morning all NU seniors were invited to submit a nomination for the Northwestern University Secondary Teachers Award (that’s high school...
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Does an iPhone Always Have to Feel Like an iPhone?

While I appreciate iWebkit and the fact that web developers are leveraging the insanely great abilities of the mobile webkit browsers...
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Developing in the Wake: How APIs Should Work

We have been using Basecamp, the online project management software for a few weeks now. Basecamp offers a straight-forward interface and...
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How Small Screens Make Things Better

I’ve been through a variety of weather apps for the iPhone. They all do pretty much the same thing, so it’s...
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Reginald Gibbons Faculty Site Launches

We’re proud to announce the launch of the Reginald Gibbons site (http://reginaldgibbons.northwestern.edu/). Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction writer, translator, literary...
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Time for F-shaped content?

I just read an interesting article about the eye movements of users reading websites, check out the article here. (Thanks to...
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