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Topic Pages - Content re-use and news site usability (part 1)

Topic Pages – Content re-use and news site usability (part 1)

By Thomas Kjelsrud on April 2, 2009 | 4 Responses

Topics pages is a concept of combining site content with background information on a subject, seen on larger news sites like TimesOnline.co.uk and NYTimes.com, but equally important for other content driven sites like blogs or search portals like Kosmix. Focus could be on the people, the organizations involved, events in time, geographical regions or... Read More »

Search Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration

Search Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration

By Vegard Sandvold on January 26, 2009 | 5 Responses

If your work involves user experience in any way, you should be familiar with design patterns. Bringing patterns into your design will help you define and solve common problems related to user interaction and information architecture. Sharing patterns with your team help you establish a common vocabulary, in turn making it easier to convert... Read More »

Yggdrasil 2008 - Day 1

Yggdrasil 2008 – Day 1

By Vegard Sandvold on October 17, 2008 | 1 Response

Well over a hundred information architects, interaction designers and UI programmers gathered this week at Lillehammer for the Yggdrasil 2008 conference. It was a pleasant and social event, with unexpected and charming entertainment by Dataforeningen’s very own singer/songwriter Henrik Wigestrand, singing about digital beauties with brains.
The business value of usability was the topic of... Read More »

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