Monthly Archives: March 2004

A first crack at task-centered design principles

Tuesday 3/30/2004 – 8:32 pm

Recently I began an interface review for a well-known medical device manufacturer. These folks are pretty well plugged in to who their customer is and what is important to them, so I figured that it would seem inappropriate to begin an interface review in a traditional User-Centered manner, questioning the great body of express and implied market research that the company has done�

By Jon Plummer | Posted in Design | Comments (0)

How far should we push semantic markup?

Tuesday 3/30/2004 – 8:26 pm

p. I find [semantic markup ponderables] intriguing, and I strive to use the “right” markup wherever possible, selecting tags and structures that at least share a strong kinship with the meaning of their contents or the function of those contents within the document. But it is easy to overthink this�

By Jon Plummer | Posted in Implementation | Comments (0)