Usability-Guru Jakob Nielsen opened the Online-Information conference in London with his keynote presentation ‘What’s New, What’s Old in Online Usability’.
Jakob gave us the good news; things are getting better on the web from a usability point of view. Since he began researching users’ response to web sites in 1994, the proportion of ‘successful’ encounters has shifted from 40% to 60%. So there are more satisfied users now than are not.
Lori DeFurio, Developer Evangelist from Adobe gave us a wonderful showing of all the new stuff coming with Acrobat 7. Here is the Adobe page that explains the day: This probably won’t stay live for too long
I was particulary impressed with the RSS feeds into Acrobat and the potential to give some extra Reader functionality through the ‘LiveCycle’ server. This is going to cost far too much though!
At the launch of the UK version of the Creative Commons licencing system today, Lawrence Lessig gave a very lucid presentation of the system and its history. The London launch took place at UCL and was attended by many IT and publishing media gurus. Damian Tambini of Oxford University explained that the UK versions of the Creative Commons licences will be available on November 1 2004.
I’m looking at colour again. In the design scheme for one of the web sites that I maintain, the colour specified in the design manifesto is ‘Pantone’ 644. In this branding document, the specification of this colour for the web is RGB: 44% 62% 73%. I don’t usually specify colour in CSS as RGB but rather as HEX. However, I am curious, because if these RGB values are pumped into Photoshop, then the colour is all wrong. So how does this come about?
