“Hi! My name is Borislav and I am a blogger” – No, this is not a greeting I use in my Blogger Anonymous meetings. It is a statement I make every time when I hit the button “Publish”.
Content Strategy For The Web – The Book
Content Strategy is a very hot topic nowadays. And it should be by all means! One needs to know and plan ahead in all consideration when it comes to the content published or to be published online. Kristina Halvorson gets the tease brilliantly done in her book ” Content Strategy for the Web”.
Trips and User Experience
But here is the punch in the whole story – User Experience. This is not a notion that applies only to your website or application. It concerns every trip the user takes in order to complete a task set upfront, reach a goal or simply enjoy the ride. Great user experience is achieved through supplying all the means in terms of information architecture, content, clarity and staying out-of-the-way(which means no messing up with my mind). And believe me, doing all that needs careful consideration based on research, common sense and ability to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Steve Krug – Don’t Make Me Think – The Book
Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think – A common sense approach to web usability”. There isn’t much to be said apart from the fact that every person involved in the digital web should read it. It is packed with examples, guidelines and tons of commons sense. All these offered in impeccable easy to read English.
WikiLeaks, Internet And Responsibility
This morning I had an interesting conversation with my dad while I was having my morning coffee and WikiLeaks came up. Conversations like this are not rare and they usually involve current political and economic events, a bit of sore sarcasm and the lift version of his and my thought on the topic at hand.
Today we talked about WikiLeaks and the recent release of documents concerning the US Department of State and possible repercussions that will come afterwards. He said something that hit me like a train ” It’s (meaning WikiLeaks) like trying to renovate an old house. But you actually do not know, if the wall or the brick you are trying to remove won’t cause the whole lot to crumble”.