There are still some seats available for Friday’s UIE Virtual Seminar, Demystifying Usability Testing: Learning the Basics. Christine Perfetti has been busy putting the finishing touches on her presentation and, if I say so myself, it’s one of the best we’ve ever done.

UIEtips 1/30/07: Streamlining the Design Process with Paper Prototyping: An Interview with Carolyn Snyder UIE’s Ashley McKee recently sat down with Carolyn Snyder, author of Paper Prototyping, and founder of Snyder Consulting, to get answers to some of the most pervasive questions surrounding paper prototyping.

UIEtips 10/16/06: Deconstructing Web Applications: An Interview with Hagan Rivers

Hagan Rivers is a recognized pioneer in the area of Web Application Design. UIE’s Christine Perfetti had the opportunity to talk with Hagan about some of the biggest challenges in the web application space.

In this Virtual Seminar, Hagan Rivers, a pioneer web application developer, will cover strategies for creating both usable and aesthetically pleasing web applications for your customers. (You can find the virtual seminar details here. )

In Christine Perfetti’s Virtual Seminar today, she mentioned some resources I thought people would want to know about.

If listening to an MP3 with nothing to look at isn’t your style, you can watch a video of the podcast Josh and I just made to answer questions people had about Josh’s recent UIE Virtual Seminar on Tagging.

Josh Porter and Jared Spool discuss many of the questions we received during Josh’s Users as Information Architects: Is Tagging Right for Your Site? Virtual Seminar — Part 2.

Josh Porter and Jared Spool discuss many of the questions we received during Josh’s Users as Information Architects: Is Tagging Right for Your Site? Virtual Seminar.

The question becomes, is an “unwieldy bunch of links” the only way to move all that value onto the home page? Certainly, it’s an option, but is it the only one? It takes more work and probably more talent to make a link rich design look good than it takes to make a link-poor design look classy. I wonder if the people walking out of the room are just afraid of the challenge.

In general, we believe graphics have a place. When they effectively communicate scent or communicate content, they are valuable to the users experience. There’s no evidence to suggest designers couldn’t create link-rich pages with effective graphics.