#external resource

If external sources respond slowly they might affect the website's performance. The website is being held back by the external resources it’s trying to load.

(Ananova News) January 19, 2023. External URL requests are requests made by your website to external websites or servers. For some functionality and a better experience, there may be a need to tap into other sites or services. While these requests can be useful, they can also present a security risk if they are not properly configured or may respond slower than intended. If external sources…

Support to Autonomous Maintenance

PM Element 1. Indicators The measurement of the maintenance department is very important because this will help operators and tradesmen to visualize problems in the equipment, prioritizing activities, and control the progress. At the beginning of TPM, these Indicators are necessary. Breakdown Breakdown means any unexpected stoppage equals 10 minutes or more when the component breaks or loses…

yahoo pattern library

Definition of pattern: an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.

Four primary components of pattern:

a title

a problem

a context

a solution

Categories:

layout

navigation

selection

rich interaction

social

The design pattern library provided a great deal of patterns that we've been viewing and experiencing, but may not realizing how they facilitate our processing. I browsed the pattern library and here I chose several examples to demonstrate.

Examples:

1. navigation > navigation bar > progress bar

I love progress bar because it provides expectation of how many steps in total; it provides clear preview of what steps I'm going to follow/ what information I'm going to fill; it shows in which step I am now

Confim/submit in the last screen, but don't include a passive confirmation or receipt page in the progress bar

Use short names for steps and use parallel construction

2. rich interaction > invitation > cursor invitation

Cursor invitation give users a clue where is clickable or interacted with

change the cursor to indicate the operation

3. rich interaction > drag and drop > drag and drop modules

page generation

mouse hover over draggable object

drag initiated

drag over a valid target area

drag over an invalid target area

drag over the original location

drop accepted

drop rejected

drop back on original location

4. social > objects > collecting > saving

use this pattern to allow people to show off, share or collaborate around a collection of online items

allow the  user to add tags, a description or other metadata to the item saved

consider allowing people to form groups around items or collections of items

                               Muriel Cooper was a digital designer, researcher and educator.

She was the first art director of MIT Press, one of the co-founders of the MIT Media Lab and head of the Visible Language Workshop. 

She was a pioneer in designing and changing the landscape of electronic communication. 

She pursed a constant examination of graphic production in multiple media and searched new forms, methods and techniques for graphic design that were specific to the emerging context of text on a computer display.

The following video of Information Landscapes showed a collection of work by Cooper and her students in 1994, which demonstrated experiments in dynamic, interactive, computer-based typography.

And as The New York Times reported, "Cooper's real legacy is her influence on younger designers." "Rather than telling them what to do, she encouraged her students to experiment, and inspired them with her irreverence. "

Richard Saul Wurman interview: information anxiety

there is no explosion of information; it's explosion of data