Writings on web design and higher education from Missoula, MT

Looks like Apple is releasing Safari for Windows. This will be a good thing if, and only if, the rendering engine is the same as on Mac. This is either a really great day, or a really bad day for web designers.

Apparently 20/20 did a segment on graphic design. The whole thing is just over a minute and makes no sense unless you are a graphics designer, I would assume. He even mentions Paul Rand.

I don’t know about you, but when I am testing a website I sometimes find it difficult to find every kind of user that will be using it to test with and get feedback. This is especially true in my field of Higher Education, where the prospective students simply are too young to be in my circle… I usually have to make do with some work study students (whose opinions have helped me greatly).

The types of users I have trouble with are the disabled ones. Not so much the blind users, as I can easily test my designs using a screen reader myself. But the colorblind user isn’t something that I traditionally could test myself, or go back to some theory that I learned back while reading A List Apart. That all changed when I found a great site called the “Colorblind Web Page Filter.” It is truly a resource I can’t be as effective with without.

One thing that I will add as a tip on this is that you can test an image of your design prior to building it (or sending it as a proof too). If only I could find a way to make designing for cognitive disorders so easy.

Where did all the style go? No need to adjust your browser, today (April 5th, 2006) is CSS Naked Day. Read the rest of this entry »