The authors are pointing out the changing roles of identity and navigation design by defining brand with interaction elements and by using brand elements as navigation elements on a site.

Moving WebWord > A Business Case for Usability
In this article, John Rhodes defines usability by giving some brief industry examples for usability projects and benefits. He also points out the deliverables in a usability (engineering) project.

v-2.org | interface usability >> Beauty now for the people

DESIGN SOUNDS
An exhibition about sound and design
Röhsska museet in Gothenburg
winter 2002

Improving search requires adding more and yet more attributes to pages. The search problem then becomes one of allowing search over the set of all page attributes without presenting a huge text menu. Even if a text menu is used it should be adaptable to the user’s searches so that even if it’s horrible to use at first, it reorganizes itself over time to better serve the user. One problem with this might be that the user becomes lost in an ever-changing menu. This might not be so bad though with icons to represent the different attributes and reorganization of attributes by regrouping the icons in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space (separate from the space of page icons). Here are some ways to do that.

Osmose (1995) is an immersive interactive virtual-realty? environment installation with 3D computer graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and balance. Osmose is a space for exploring the perceptual interplay between self and world, i.e. a place for facilitating awareness of one’s own self as consciousness embodied in enveloping space

Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed ‘the GPS of the information universe,’ topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora (via xblog)

Paper prototyping is a technique that enables technical and non-technical personnel to cooperatively design user interfaces for GUI and Web applications.
This prototyping kit is a simple low-tech collection of user interface elements that facilitates this process; all the source materials available are free of charge.
But does this really help? ItÅ0Ö7s all the actual interface standard, but it may focus our attention on some important topics like information architecture and dialogue structure.

This Flazoom.com - article is about some usability topics - not only interesting for flash designers & users. It tales into account athat a wide range of people is lookingto the sites we design - sth that should be taken into account in most of the design processes (if you are not designung a snowboard mag).

Essays on web design interaction usability experience architecture?etc.