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I like how they simply call Summon "Summon" on the Find Articles page and give the option to search the whole library world. Other than that they don't bother the user with branding and you get the same results for a search from the tabbed search on the homepage as a search on this page.

The premise is misleading, but the article has some useful tips and information. The article should clarify that: "Everyone can be creative at something; but that something might not be a way to earn a living." A comedian once said, "A dodo bird can be beautiful and useful and important...but you don't encourage the dodo bird to fly."

I have a short article along with the video of my talk at ALA and a video of a talk I gave at Code4Lib Midwest outlining the basics of how this kind of analysis can be done on any site.

This article was posted today... and is relevant to our captioning discussions. It makes it sounds as if transcripts are actually better than captions, because it allows Deaf users to print out and read at a comfortable pace.

Great article on the current state of Web Development in relation to the term "HTML5".

Great article on the current state of Web Development in relation to the term "HTML5".

Although purposefully-deceptive design is more likely to occur on for-profit sites, I thought this was an interesting article about the subtle ways design can hamper usability. Interestingly, Scribd.com got called out for Baiting and Switching on a grassroots wiki that documents dark patterns: http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Bait_and_Switch

An interesting article on using sketches in the collaboration within a team. While this article concentrates on mobile solutions, sketching can be used for websites as well. A pull-quote from the article: "Learning from sketches is based largely on the ambiguous nature of their representation. (Sketches) do not specify everything and lend themselves to, and encourage, various interpretations that were not consciously integrated into them by their creator."

Interesting article that highlights how it takes the whole organization's commitment in order to go from good usability to good user experience.

Good article. I also like the diagram.

A good article with several useful RSS readers. Most of them rely on the user having a Google reader account already setup.

Insight into user's issues regarding pay vs free content. I thought this was a good article that explained the future direction in which media providers have to look. Not everything can be free.

An interesting article on brainstorming. READ WITH A GRAIN OF SALT because it is an opinion piece. Brainstorming DOES work - I have personal experience with it doing so when I worked with a multiple CLIO winning advertising team. The way that the New Yorker writer defines brainstorming is very limited; but the article does have some insight into the creative process using measurable results.

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Interesting article about the merits and limitations of "expandable" website layouts.

Informative post about different kinds of IA deliverables and where they fit into the overall process.