Interview with Taylor and Pennington from Red Hat’s UI Team
“(…) the new unified UI on Red Hat 8 was the talk of the town for the whole summer since the Limbo betas.” (OSNews)
All posts from
October 2002
Making Online Information Usable
“Usability problems fall on a continuum. On one end are the nuisance problems, like typos or incorrect grammar. Users may not notice these issues, and can ignore them if they do.” (User Interface Engineering)
An Interview with Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff on User-Centered Design
“The primary benefit of user-centered design is that, when performed well, it ensures that the product is useful, usable, and meaningful to the end-user.” (Meryl K. Evans – Digital Web)
Mac User Interface Design for New Developers
“The key to usability for Mac applications is consistency with existing Mac applications.” (Brook Conner – O’Reilly’s Mac OS X Conference 2002 Presentations)
TextArc, Visualising Text
“Visualising the structure of the raw text of a document helps greatly in its analysis and compliments techniques like computational linguistics by using the pattern finding capability of the human brain.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)
Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
“Metadata is information about information: more precisely, it’s structured information about resources.” (Avi Rappoport – Search Tools)
Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why
“This paper explores the semantic and rhetorical principles underlying link development and proposes a systematic, comprehensive classification of link types that would be of use to researchers and Web production teams.” (Claire Harrison – FirstMonday 7.10)
Global Concerns and How Artificial Intelligence Will Effect Information Design
“What matters is that information designers know how to apply the applications to their quest for high quality knowledge experiences.” (Peter Simlinger & Ludwig Haskins – infodesign ed 2002)
Persuasive Architecture: How to Get Your Visitors to Take Action
“Architecture as a discipline is a merger of science and art, joining the breadth of engineering and aesthetics with human use.” (grokdotcom)
Ranganathan for IAs
An introduction to the thought of S.R. Ranganathan for information architects. (Mike Steckel – Boxes and Arrows)
The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of
“A good IA tool should work like your brain. Is there one? Yes. It’s called Tinderbox.” (Sean Carton – ClickZ)
Designed for Life
“Don Norman on (…) why gadgets in the real world are still so hard to use, and why computers need emotions.” (Wendy M. Grossman – New Scientist)
Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville Interview
“(…) we invested in growth at precisely the wrong time.” (since1968)
Improving Business Through User-Centered Design
An Interview with UCD Innovators Scott Isensee, Carol Righi and Karel Vredenburg. (Kerrie Green – Righi Interface)
Information Overload: It’s Time To Take Your Time
“The technology industry has a blind and zealous faith in speed and innovation. Society in general has bought into the change is good mantra.” (Gerry McGovern)
14 Principles of Polite Apps
“Software should respond to your obvious needs, not just your commands. Use these 14 principles to create accommodating software.” (Alan Cooper – DevX)
Common Principles: A Usable Interface Design Primer
“When users perform a transaction or action, their cognition is often split between learning and operating the system or user interface.” (Rick Oppedisano – UPA)
A Hypertext History of Instructional Design
“From before 1920 to 1990 and into the future.” (S. McNeil)
Principles of Good GUI Design
“Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have become the user interface of choice. Yet despite the GUI’s popularity, surprisingly few programs exhibit good interface design.” (James Hobart – CCI)
The Life of Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870)
A translation of Minard’s obituary by Dawn Finley (Edward Tufte)