July 2004
Learning from Sim Refinery (Jul 20, 2004)
This excerpt from an old Will Wright talk on SimCity and simulation game design has broken me of my naivete around using game-like interfaces for work tasks: Then there was the oil company who wanted "Sim Refinery", so you could...
Alertbox walled garden (Jul 19, 2004)
While reading the latest Alertbox on card-sorting, I noticed that Jakob Nielsen rarely links to anyone but himself. "How rarely?" you ask. I counted the links in Alertbox over the last six months (16 columns), and found that out of...
Web Standards RFP (Jul 13, 2004)
I need a little help. I'm writing an RFP for a client developing a new website. Accessibility is one of their key goals; creating a web-standards compliant site is one of mine. My company is doing the user experience and...
