“Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces.”

“Collection of Widgets and UI elements from various websites, with notation of their sterling or plate metal qualities.”

“Computer products too often seem designed for the computer engineers who create them. But IBM is working to change this practice. We believe that all users have the right to an enjoyable experience when using a computer.”

“At its simplest, helping your visitors means avoiding corporate-speak and industry jargon. It means taking the trouble to find out which words and terms your visitors use when thinking about your products and services.”

“The executive dashboard is a hot technology product. The logical progeny of portal applications and technology, the executive dashboard is a single interface that serves as the point of entry into the masses of data and information within a company that might be relevant to a particular executive.”

“Some time ago, I read Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox column When Bad Design Elements Become the Standard. The premise of the column stuck with me—that is, that there are certain design practices that are so ubiquitous on the web that they are de facto standards. I became curious—just what are the design practices on the web that have the highest frequency? And are there design practices that all (or nearly all) sites employ?”

“So, what do we need to know if we want to design usable and enjoyable Websites and portals? In this article, I take a look at some of the usability issues involved with Web applications and portals - maybe this is a starting point for such a thing as portal usability, whatever its final name will be.”