The Use of Faceted Classification

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Heidi Adkisson has posted on the Use of Faceted Classification in Web Design Practices which examines how e-commerce sites use faceted classification to help people find products.

A series of papers are available in Kathryn La Barre’s project website: Facets on the Web from the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.

A definition of Faceted Classification can be found in the IAWiki page: FacetedClassification

Update: (05 Jul 2006)
Another useful page I’ve come across on faceted classification.

The redesign of the BBEdit 8 icon

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon.

James from Designweenie has commented on the brand & identity of BBEdit and the icon redesign.

What to do with a talking horse?

In Archive by Fredy Ore

UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse.

Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise you are in this stage and what to focus whilst on it.

Fonts for programmers

In Archive by Fredy Ore

It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently come across. A good friend of mine, Cafedave once told me that nothing beats Tahoma & Monaco, so I kinda stayed with these for years, but I think it’s time to try a few other cool ones.

1. Profont – available for Windows as TTF, Mac and Linux.
2. Proggy Font – a free and multi-platform alternative.

Some other resources include:
1. Programmer Fonts
2. All in the head – Retro
3. Typographi