Philosophy

Last modified: 9/28/98

This section describes the basic ideas behind the techniques covered here, and how they came about.

Skimming is important
Business documents are read in an irregular manner. Techniques have been developed to aid the reader of paper documents in navigating through those documents.
Word Processing vs. "Web" Documents
Reading on screen is different than reading on paper. The metaphors used for writing word processed documents do not make for easy to read screen documents. Techniques from CD-ROM's, the Web, and on-line documentation can help make web documents that are compelling to read on-screen.
We can learn from newspapers
Newspapers are skimmed like reports. We can learn from newspaper techniques.
The Trellix 1.0 development project
An overview of the history of the project that helped us come up with the ideas presented here.
Other research
Research from User Interface Engineering and Jakob Nielsen.