Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Head First HTML/CSS finally ships!

A new book about HTML by well regarded authors ...

"Eric and Beth's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML is finally shipping on Amazon. This is the book I have been waiting for so I can finally learn more about the front-end of the web instead of languishing in the web's dark underbelly (in my case, the Java back-end).

The book is stunning--the Freemans (driving force on the Head First Design Patterns book--one of the top five bestselling computer books of 2005, and winner of the Jolt Cola/Software Development Award), are software/web geniuses. I don't say that lightly--both hold multiple CS degrees, Eric was the original inventor and co-creator of LifeStreams, and both are former Disney executives, where they led some of the entertainment company's most ambitious web-based intiatives. Most importantly, they care about their readers and have crafted each page of this book (all 694 of them) to help those of us who still need to learn this stuff "get it" with the least amount of pain, the deepest understanding of the key things that matter, and have fun at the same time."   continued ...   (Via Creating Passionate Users)


Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML


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