All posts from
May 2002
Taxonomic Distress
The Challenge of Developing Effective Taxonomies for Web-facing Businesses (Lane Becker – Adaptive Path)
The Bottom-line of Prototyping and Usability Testing
“How user-centered design techniques can make a cost effective workflow” (guuui.com)
Prodding at the Limits of User-Centered Design
“Ethnography treats people as if they are in a zoo” (Usability News)
The Commercial Feasibility of a Next-Generation User Interface
“Keep productivity and usability the #1 goal of software design.” (Jared White – The Idea Basket)
Using Wireframes
“A wireframe is a visualization tool for presenting the layout of a web page element inventory.” (Strange Systems)
Fifth Advance for Design Summit
Integrating our values, processes, and insights into the business community (July 11-13, 2002 – Las Vegas)
How We Define Information Architecture
“(…) a systematic, question-based process for creating communication products that improve users’ performance.” (Info.Design)
Competitive Usability
“How usability will be the key differentiator of tomorrow’s internet” (guuui.com)
User Engineering
“(…) a discipline for designing user experiences that match users’ expectations.” (IBM/Ease-of-Use)
A Methodology to Verify and Improve an Existing Large-scale Information Architecture
“The information structure and terminology of a Web site is an essential element of its ease of use” (Jianming Dong – IBM/Ease-of-Use 2002 Papers)
In My Experience
“(…) a simple outlet for my (Daniel Kapusta) opinions and thoughts.” (about inmyexperience)
Information Architecture Makes Design Accountable
“(…) having the lead visual designer with a focus on visual design and branding be responsible for the IA and interaction design of a website is wrong.” (Peter van Dijck – poorbuthappy)
Emergent Interface for the Internet
“(…) to bring all content into a unified visual context for human-to-human communications and interaction.” (John Ko – O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2002: Notes & Presentations)
Beyond Common Sense
A Talk by Jared Spool – April 8, 2002 (The British HCI Group)
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
“First, understand your customer and make things easy for them. (…) Secondly, understand the business goals and design your changes to work towards those goals.” (Jeff Lash – Boxes and Arrows)
Designing On Both Sides Of Your Brain
“The entire process of idea exploration, evaluation and implementation is reflective.” (Scott Berkun – Boxes and Arrows)
STC’s 49th Annual Conference
“This page contains links to materials provided by the conference presenters.” (Society for Technical Communication)
Scenarios Work!
Improving Requirements Engineering with Use Cases and Scenarios (July 10 2002, London UK)
