Lighthouse – Burdman on Web development’s central challenge Author of Collaborative Web Development Discusses some of the challenges of web project management. Just an overview, but yet another indication that her book should be read.

Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly (Alertbox Nov. 2000) Mr. Nielsen on the continued misuse of the drop-down menu as a navigation or command device in web page design.

Flazoom.com – Attention Macromedia: I Will not be Your Scapegoat A response to Macromedia blaming developers for poor design using Flash. He says, “A company can not promote bad usability with every award it hands out and then blame the developers for their products poor reputation.”

TheStandard.com: How to Write for the Web Just some real good advice ‘bout righting 4 the web. Ain’t too long, neither.

Great quote from ecompany: Don’t bother chasing after these online pipe dreams. Instead, stick to your knitting: Make sure that your HTML works right, your webpages download in five to eight seconds or less on a dial-up connection, and your site’s easy to navigate; and see to it that when customers send you e-mail, they get a reply within

Flash: 99% Bad (Alertbox Oct. 2000) Mr. Nielsen, once again bashing much of the fun stuff on the web. It would piss me off, except he’s right. He does say: None of these usability problems are inherent in Flash. You can design usable multimedia objects that comply with the guidelines and are easy to use. The problem is simply that current Flash design tends to encourage abuse.

groove.net Collaboration, Peer-to-peer, Secure, Extensible, Free, Complete published API. I just can’t get enough of this thing.

The usability lifecycle Nielsen again, providing more arguments for an iterative development cycle.

Moving WebWord > Call Them Demons, Call Them Heroes On how every word on your site makes, or can make, a significant difference in shaping the user experience. “Every word transfers energy.”

Moving WebWord > Trouble in Paradise: Problems Facing the Usability Community There are problems with usability and the usability community. […]In my opinion, usability as we know it is dying. It is outdated, misunderstood, and it faces very serious challenges in web and software development circles. Ouch.

AskTog: Urbanpixel – Visible Navigation for the Web Tog seems to dig urbanpixel. I think I do too. Visual 2D navigation of the web. Spatially relevant web site placement. Neato!

AskTog: Why is Apple in Trouble? Tog on Apple’s latest troubles. He’s not giving up, but he’s not very enthusiastic either.