Some of you will already know The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) mail list. For those that don’t know it, the website and mail list are great resources and sources of discussion for anyone... Read More

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a last call for comments on the working draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0… again: The Web Content... Read More

We can learn a lot about designing usable web sites from the offline world. For instance, when I was in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago visiting family, I took a drive around the Adelaide Hills.... Read More

World Usability Day is an international, annual event that will be held on November 8th this year with the theme of Health. The main goal of the event is to promote and encourage usability in the... Read More

I go through phases of complacency and disbelief when thinking about web accessibility. Working at SitePoint HQ, I’m fairly lucky in that everybody here is on the same page when it comes to... Read More

At Web Directions South 2007 in Sydney, SitePoint usability blogger Lisa Herrod (aka Scenario Girl) proposed a new way of looking at usability and accessibility within the web design process. Not... Read More

Oz-IA ran over the weekend in Sydney and it was a fantastic event. There were some really interesting presentations, and while I didn’t get to all of them, without doubt the most interesting for me... Read More

Gee, aren’t floors great? All flat and clean and smooth, they do a faultless job of preventing us from plunging headlong into the voids beneath them — a particularly useful trick in... Read More

You know what, I really hate CAPTCHA. The other day I was speculatively signing up for a Facebook account (I’m not particularly interested in being on Facebook, I just wanted to have a nose... Read More

I wouldn’t call myself a conference junkie by any means, I’d be lucky to attend one or two a year. And I certainly don’t think of myself as the eternal student, but when I gave it... Read More

As AJAX has come into the spotlight over the past few years, many web developers have been creating some great applications that handle data more like a desktop application. However, much of the... Read More

Like it or hate it, Twitter has caused a stir in the online social networking space. In a nut shell, Twitter allows users to pump out infinite amounts of (usually) ego-driven noise to the intarweb... Read More

I’m experimenting with Tumblr and Jaiku at the moment, and I have an idea that by combining them, I’m going to create a really useful ‘Mash App’ for my User Focus class at SIT next term.... Read More