Accessibility is a an important part of both web and game design. And for web and game design, one of the popular tool is Flash. That means very often you need to ensure accessibility in Flash. However there are still not many tools available even for simple things like color …
Articles with the web usability design and engineering tag
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Deep Linking for AJAX
I have just made a independent study on “deep linking for AJAX” for the course Web 2.0 technology. Seems that most of the info on the web about deep linking implementation are for Flash web site but not AJAX’s, so I release my report and presentation slide here …
Meanings behind the fancy transition effects
It is quite popular that websites have more and more “AJAX animation effects”(which should be JavaScript animation effects actually…). Many AJAX learners are obsessed with adding fancy animated effects on there web page, and sometimes, adding it without thinking the particular effect’s meaning, will actually confuse or disturb …
Some research on JavaScript benchmark
Since I am going to make a benchmark for ActionScript performance across different browser/platform, I take a look into the JavaScript benchmark to see if I can simply port one to be used in ActionScript.
The most famous ones should be Apple’s SunSpider, Google’s V8 Benchmark Suite …
Some free tools for usability/accessibility testing
Web usability/accessibility testing is always a troublesome work for web designers/developers. But with good tools, testing can be made much faster, easier and cheaper. Here below are some tools I found useful:
HTML VALIDATOR (Firefox add-on)
Homepage: http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
It can let you validate …
CityU’s Usability Testing Lab
Just a few days ago, I went to CityU’s brand new Usability Testing Lab to do usability testing for my assignment. It is located in InnoCentre (Kowloon Tong), on the 5th floor, inside Department of Media and Communication. I searched around InnoCentre for so long since Dr. Andy Chun …
SEO, a path to web 3.0: helping machines to understand us
In these few weeks I keep reading articles on search engine optimization (SEO) and the development of the Internet (mostly Google related, but Google’s is a big part of the Internet right?). More I read SEO, more I realize the similarities between web 3.0 and the concept of …
The heat of layout redesign
In the past year, web designers/developers seem busy with web layout redesign. Here were several popular web site that were redesigned to be named: Yahoo Mail (and Yahoo’s homepage is in progress), Xanga, Facebook, Wordpress (in progress) etc.
It is interesting to me that I really found some …
Why paper is still being used in paper prototyping?!
In the last two weeks, from both the lessons of “Web usability design and engineering” and “Multimodel interface design”, I learnt about paper prototyping. It is a technique that used to test a interface design before building the interface out. It is widely used in the industry because it do …
Usability, accessibility and SEO of Flash-only website
I wanna blog about this because I always use Flash and building websites.
Usability, accessibility and SEO of a website are becoming a great concern these days while Flash/Flex technology is becoming a big big part of the web. Flash contents are always said to be bad for usability …
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