Week 3: User Centered Design/Standards
Week 3: User-Centered Design/Standards
Boy! Those were a lot of acronyms in the “Internet Standards, Protocols, and Languages” write-up. I didn’t know there were some many out there. I’m impressed that despite all that jargon we have been able to keep the Web universal. I’m all in favor of standardization, but I’m not too sure if that is practical. A recent Wall Street journal article talked about how some countries are starting their own alternatives to the Internet.
Here are a few graphs from the article (published Jan 19) since WSJ is subscription based and you may not get to read the full article.
German computer engineers are building an alternative to the Internet to make a political statement. A Dutch company has built one to make money. China has created three suffixes in Chinese characters substituting for .com and the like, resulting in Web sites and email addresses inaccessible to users outside of China...
The Internet...uses a so-called domain-name system, also called the "root," that consists of 264 suffixes. These include .com, .net, .org and country codes such as .jp for Japan.
Having a single root is central to the universality of the Internet and critical to its power and appeal...
...some are uneasy with the notion that a U.S.-based body (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or Icann) overseen by the U.S. government has sole power over what domain names are used and who controls each name. Other countries such as China also say Icann is too slow in forming domain names in non-Roman languages, hindering the development of an Internet culture in those countries...
As for Nathan Shedroff’s article on Unified Design Theory, I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt that understanding your audience’s needs and offering them a holistic experience is a the key to good design theory.
Boy! Those were a lot of acronyms in the “Internet Standards, Protocols, and Languages” write-up. I didn’t know there were some many out there. I’m impressed that despite all that jargon we have been able to keep the Web universal. I’m all in favor of standardization, but I’m not too sure if that is practical. A recent Wall Street journal article talked about how some countries are starting their own alternatives to the Internet.
Here are a few graphs from the article (published Jan 19) since WSJ is subscription based and you may not get to read the full article.
German computer engineers are building an alternative to the Internet to make a political statement. A Dutch company has built one to make money. China has created three suffixes in Chinese characters substituting for .com and the like, resulting in Web sites and email addresses inaccessible to users outside of China...
The Internet...uses a so-called domain-name system, also called the "root," that consists of 264 suffixes. These include .com, .net, .org and country codes such as .jp for Japan.
Having a single root is central to the universality of the Internet and critical to its power and appeal...
...some are uneasy with the notion that a U.S.-based body (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or Icann) overseen by the U.S. government has sole power over what domain names are used and who controls each name. Other countries such as China also say Icann is too slow in forming domain names in non-Roman languages, hindering the development of an Internet culture in those countries...
As for Nathan Shedroff’s article on Unified Design Theory, I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt that understanding your audience’s needs and offering them a holistic experience is a the key to good design theory.
posted by sakina | Monday, January 23, 2006
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