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Kristin Vincent
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About: Kristin Vincent is the Senior Information Architect and Manager of the Information Architecture Team at Barnes & Noble.com and was the project manager for the company's 2007 site-wide redesign. Prior to her role at B&N, Kristin was an Information Developer and Team Leader at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab where she designed data management software and conducted user tests to ensure the designs scaled to a global audience. She then moved to IBM's Research Triangle Park Lab in North Carolina where she led the strategy to determine what demos and tutorials would be included with IBM's suite of tools for web application development.
Kristin has a Masters Degree from Carnegie Mellon University focused on designing online environments. She earned a liberal arts certificate from Stanford University that centers on global and cultural studies and later earned a certificate in web technologies from the University of Washington's extension program. She also audited an information systems class at UC Berkeley and studied creative writing at Duke University.
Kristin is on the steering committee for the New York City Webgrrls chapter of Webgrrls International. In her role as the Team Webgrrls Outreach Coordinator, she leads the program that teaches underprivileged girls about technology and shows them how fun and exciting technology can be. She has been a mentor with the iMentor program in the Bronx and was an active volunteer in the Global Communications Gallery at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. She also volunteered at IBM's annual EXITE Camp (Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering), which teaches middle school girls about careers in engineering.
As a weekly contributor to the Webgrrls International Blog, Webgrrls Wisdom, Kristin focuses on how users interact in and with online environments and how designers can create information spaces that are innovative and easy to use.
Kristin currently lives in New York City.See Authors Posts (51)
Topics: Design, Technology, Usability
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This morning I read an interesting article on CNET News called Five old-fashioned Web concepts that need to die. I figured I’d pass it along so each of us can check whether we have any offenders still sitting out in cyberspace.
Below is a quick summary, but check out the full article for more explanation and site examples.
- Refresh: Don’t make people have to reload the page to see new content.
- Save: Web users shouldn’t have to click a Save button. They should not lose their work because they followed a link and navigated away momentarily.
- Log-in: People have so many passwords to keep track of. Find ways to make this simpler. (Here is one place where I don’t wholeheartedly agree. I don’t think we need to eliminate sign in, but we can definitely make it easier and less frequently by doing things like adding Remember Me checkboxes that set a cookie to keep people signed in automatically next time they visit.)
- One-size-fits-all design: Make sure you design for mobile devices and not just computer screens.
- Blocker ads: Don’t allow ads to block the content people are trying to access.
Related posts:
- Web 2.0 Expo: Motivate People To Sign Up For Your Web App
- Tools Help you Improve Your Website’s Usability
- Test Your Site on Mobile Device Simulators
- Information Overload: Are You Up for the Interface Challenge?
- Design and Usability principles from the google team
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