Tracy Boyer has a thoughtful post looking at the usability of the heating oil map that we launched last month. She compliments how responsive the map is and the color scheme, and contrasts it with another data-rich map.
In addition to the challenges presented by the map itself, we worked hard to format the material [...]
Jim Craner at maptogether.org was kind enough to feature a recent EDF project on his site.
The interactive map lets people find which buildings in New York City are burning the dirtiest heating oil.
(This is the oil behind the huge puffs of dark smoke that you see coming from rooftops up there.)
I was sad [...]
In his post “Playing by the (Wrong) Rules,” Mark Rovner talks about how organizations treat people who give a lot of money, and contrasts that to how they treat people who give less money:
If I join your e-list on Monday, the system spits out a welcome on Tuesday and a solicitation on Wednesday. According [...]
Steve Krug is the best writer I’ve ever encountered on usability and Web design. His first book, Don’t Make Me Think, is one of two books on Web design I ever recommend. (I just ordered his second book, so that number could jump up to three.)
This 60-minute presentation is a little slow getting started, but [...]
I was surprised to see this, since Jakob Nielsen has a reputation for dedication to rigor and process in usability studies. His published studies are the gold standard of the industry. But sometimes he can give the impression that user testing should never be attempted at home.
In today’s Alertbox column, he says just the opposite:
Usability [...]
Dan Gundeman over at Big Duck posted about some extended time he took off recently.
I took a sabbatical about a decade ago when I was at WashingtonPost.com, and it was wonderful. I’ve been at EDF for five years now, long enough to qualify for our sabbatical program. I started daydreaming over the summer about what [...]
I saw this headline on a post from Jason Fried at 37Signals, and it made a lot of sense to me. Here’s a bit of the post:
[W]hat I really do most of the time is trim, tuck, iron, cut, press, and fit.
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My team is incredible. I don?€™t need to tell them what to do. If [...]