August 30, 2004
Useit.Com: Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design.
Behind a website's superficial appearance lies its fundamental understanding of user behavior in an interactive service. Choices such as whether the "buy" button is red or orange or whether the navigation menu runs across the top or down the left side are much debated, but make at most a few percent difference in usability. In contrast, the design ideology can make or break a site.
Computerworld: Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn.
Microsoft said WinFS will be delivered after the Longhorn release. Greg Sullivan, a lead product manager at Microsoft, said WinFS will follow the Longhorn "client" operating system release but Microsoft doesn't know when it will be complete.
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