Something really snappy here http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/ 2009-06-25 Why XML parsing is advantageous and why XHTML is relevant. http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2009.06-whyxhtml.html Why Web 2.0 is bad for the web, and how we can fix it.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2008.03-website.html , BBC's Newsnight decided to interview Johann Gutenberg.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2005.09-gutenberg.html2005-09-01 A decade ago I tried to predict how much mail I would be receiving now. Was I right?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2004.6-email2.html2004-11-01 Available computing power doubles every 18 months. Why aren't we taking advantage of it?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2004.4-power2.html2004-07-01 Why open source can't do usabilityhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2004.1-itch.html2004-01-01 Badly designed programming languages cause viruses.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2003.6-sobig.html2003-11-01 Why are hotel booking sites on the Web so terrible?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2003.5-hotels.html2003-09-01 So is the net bad for human relationships?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2003.3-stoll.html2003-05-01 Region codes on DVDs are a stupid idea.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2003.2-restrictive.html2003-03-01 The economic value of making websites accessible.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2003.1-spiderbot.html2003-01-01 Screen resolution (pixel density) is increasing. Don't use pixels as a measure of font size if you want people to continue reading your web pages.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2002.5-pixelpoint.html2002-09-01 Web sites that don't care if you can see their contenthttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2002.4-go-away.html2002-07-01 On the definition of usability.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2002.2-chooseone.html2002-03-01 What will it mean for the user if Internet comes out of the electric plug?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2002.1-electricIP.html2002-01-01 Will devices converge to one all-powerful device, or will they stay separate and learn to communicate?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2001.6-convergence.html2001-11-01 A proposed explanation of why some websites are apparently so wilfully hard to use.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2001.5-uncertainty.html2001-09-01 Successes and failures of the mobile Internet.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2001.4-killerapp.html2001-07-01 Many eyes make UI bugs shallow, too.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2001.2-notations.html2001-03-01 Why publishers should be encouraging digital copying like Napster.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2001.1-photocopy.html2001-01-01 Is it OK to use the word Affordance about aspects of screen interfaces?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2000.6-tollit.html2000-11-01 Horror stories from a multi-lingual environment.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2000.5-wysiwyg.html2000-09-01 Peer-review has structural problems that may just go awayhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2000.4-accidentaldeath.html2000-07-01 How our interactions with devices live in the fringes of unanticipated possibilities.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2000.3-ringsforme.html2000-05-01 If you're one of those people that thinks there's nothing like the feel and smell of a lovely book, come over to my house sometime and smell mine.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2000.1-demiseofthebook.html2000-01-01 Before you design an interface, you need to observe your usershttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1999.6-localoptima.html1999-11-01 One day we will all be glad that there are accessible websiteshttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1999.1-image.html1999-01-01 Zen and the Art of Interaction Designhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1998.5-zen.html1998-09-01 Why you shouldn't use PDF for documents intended for the screenhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1998.4-screenisnotpaper.html1998-10-01 Inconsistencies within and between systemshttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1998.3-mysteries.html1998-07-01
The sad state of platform interoperability.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1998.2-teenagers.html1998-04-01 So don't use flags as icons representing languages.http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1998.1-flagsarenotlanguages.html1998-01-01 Why documentation should be designed using user interface techniqueshttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1997.4-hellanddocumentation.html1997-10-01 Why are programming languages so bad?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1997.3-programmers2.html1997-07-01 'Smart' software. Ha!http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1997.2-ifsixwerenine.html1997-04-01 If technological advances of computing are so easy to predict, why are we so short-sighted?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1997.1-future.html1997-01-01 Why screens will replace paper eventuallyhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1996.4-never.html1996-10-01 Sound in the user interfacehttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1996.3-beepbeep.html1996-07-01 Why is it so hard to write a GUI program?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1996.1-programmers.html1996-01-01 Wrong use of terminologyhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1995.4-MetaphoricallySpeaking.html1995-10-01 Why are mail readers so uniformly bad?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1995.3-thingsthatstayus.html1995-07-01 Why notations should be designed using user interface techniqueshttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1995.2-Gbldgk.html1995-04-01 The pains of telling computer systems what your address ishttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1995.1-nosuchzone.html1995-01-01 Character sets, and how badly most of the world is supportedhttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1994.4-romanempire.html1994-10-01 An argument for blind reviewinghttp://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1994.3-wordofencouragement.html1994-07-01 What sort of mess would we be in if filestores had developed in the same way that user interface software has?http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/1994.2-parallelworlds.html1994-04-01