Emotion and Affect
Don Norman on the value of beauty, fun and pleasure in design. (Ubiquity)
All posts from
May 2002
Preview ‘Freestyle’: New Interface For Extended PC Media Experiences
“Experience video, audio, pictures, and TV through a convenient, flexible user interface that makes it easier than ever to enjoy your digital media.” (Microsoft)
FacetMap
“A solution so simple that we can take any metadata you’ve got, and turn it into a browsing system right here on our servers.” (FacetMap.com)
Screen Language: The New Currency for Learning
“Kids are on to something big, says John Selly Brown (…)” (Martha Lagace – HBS Working Knowledge)
User Satisfaction Key to Viral Marketing
“(…) e-tailers often ignore the fact that they have to keep existing users happy to reap the benefits of new client referrals” (Christopher Saunders – Cyber Atlas)
Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The ‘Evolution of a Mindset’
“(…) I tend to think of my days designing for print as living in Flatland.” (Meg Cole – Boxes and Arrows)
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
“A company’s homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Promoting IA: Survey Results
“(…) we need better stories to tell.” (Louis Rosenfeld – Bloug)
Strategic Usability: Partnering Business, Engineering and Ease of Use
“The most limited view of usability engineering is often unintentionally promoted by usability engineers themselves.” (Scott Berkun – UIWeb.com)
Relationships: Structural Design Components
“All the fuss over findability from Peter’s article and the many insightful comments led me to think about this new concept until I saw this diagram in a dream.” (Christina Wodtke – elegant hack)
Why I’m Not Calling Myself An Information Architect Anymore
“I could probably put it in one simple word – respect.” (David Heller – Boxes and Arrows)
Users as Designers – Challenge of the Network Age
“(..) stop thinking about products’ end-users and start thinking about the system’s end-designer.” (Ann Light – Usability News)
Jared Spool, a Man with a Task
“So he is researching how to categorise in such a way that search becomes redundant. Key to this is the labelling of categories.” (Ann Light – Usability News)
The CHI/AIGA Experience Design Forum
“(..) we’re at an inflection point, with the potential to play a major role in making businesses successful.” (George Olsen – Boxes and Arrows)
Principles of Educational Multimedia User Interface Design
“The purpose of the principles is to maximize the learning effectiveness of multimedia applications.” (Lawrence J. Najjar – Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Behind the Firewall – Information Architecture and Usability
“Information architecture is the process of designing the access to information so that users can rely mainly on their intuition to navigate quickly and productively around the site.” (Martin White – EContent)
Usability, Collaboration and Organizational Design
“(…) usability specialists are often the first to go in times of downsizing because the fundamental importance of usability is not yet fully understood.” (Karin Lindgaard – HOTLab)
Interview with Karel Vredenburg of IBM
“There is no way that I would have been able to take what Apple did and move it over to IBM.” (Karin Lindgaard – HOTLab)
Gratuious Graphics and Human-Centred Website Design
“I’m a fan of art and beauty, of aesthetically pleasing design” (Don Norman)
And The Nominees Are …
“The Webby Awards 2002 Nominees (…) These nominees exemplify the very best that the Internet has to offer.” (Webby Awards)