Archive for May, 2008

The Power of the Web (& the Wii)

Published by Marc on 20 May, 2008 in General. 1 Comment

A technological innovation brought to you by Microsoft that you can’t wait to get! Hard to believe - but true!We thought it was so cool, we had to share it (complements of Ted Talks)…

And then there’s this demo of what your Wii Remote can do for you (complements of Johnny Chung Lee). Enjoy!

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Usability Principles of a CMS

Published by Tom Petryshen on 5 May, 2008 in Amplify11, CMS and Web Standards. 0 Comments

Recently I came across an article on CMS Usability by Sydney based CMS guru James Robertson. In his article, “11 usability principles of CMS products” he outlines the key principles a CMS should have to be truly usable.
A usable CMS will:

minimise the number of options
be robust and error-proof
provide task-based interfaces
hide implementation details
meet core usability guidelines
match [...]

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