{"id":20607,"date":"2005-04-04T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T01:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2005\/04\/04\/survey-dsandlerorg-usability"},"modified":"2005-04-04T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T01:09:10","slug":"survey-dsandlerorg-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2005\/04\/04\/survey-dsandlerorg-usability","title":{"rendered":"Survey: dsandler.org usability."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBe honest: Is <a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/\">dsandler.org<\/a> usable?  <em>Just this once, comments are open.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nUsability and UI\/HCI are topics I care deeply about.  I pay a great deal of attention to the info-architecture and visual design of the software and Web pages I build.  I don&#8217;t do a lot of structured, Norman-esque stuff (viz., personas), but instead use the Method (so to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/05\/04\/getting-design-done\">speak<\/a>) to be sure I&#8217;m getting the performance right. This site is a different story, however: It&#8217;s a sandbox, and I&#8217;m always playing in it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTake the left-hand side of this page, for example.  I have <em>five<\/em> distinct navigation mechanisms for you to choose from: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/tag\/\">tags<\/a>, highlights (irregularly and arbitrarily chosen by me), recent articles, search, and chronological archives.  I can&#8217;t decide which is best; clearly just one is insufficient.  Shall I take the classic weblog route (chronological archives only)?  Or is the semistructured <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">delicious<\/a> route the way to go (tag-based exploration with search fallback)?  This site is where I experiment with these techniques, and (for better or worse) you (three) are along for the ride.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nColors are also a problem.  I like to pick colors I like, but being somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/?s=colorblind\">colorblind<\/a> I have to rely on math to help me.  The current site is a washed-out blue, with complementary orange\/rust for accent and linkage.  To keep it from being too garish, the saturation is kept low.  Classy or illegible?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSound off.  Your comment may not appear immediately, because I need to filter out the spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be honest: Is dsandler.org usable? Just this once, comments are open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}