Stop your presentation before it kills again!
“I’ll leave you with Tufte’s fateful words, ‘Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.’ Be careful out there… someone could get hurt.” (Kathy Sierra – Creating Passionate Users)
All posts from
June 2005
Faceted Classification
Overview of relevant links by del.icio.us according to Michael Scudder (del.icio.us) – courtesy of marcel van mackelenbergh
Getting IA Done: Part 1
“Document, Document, Document: I try to document my work as much as possible in order to have a running record of my day. This includes to-do lists, dates and times of meetings with key outcomes, design sketches… everythings.” (Joshua Kaufman – Digital Web Magazine)
Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design
“As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, I thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs.” (LukeW – Functioning Form)
John Maeda at Cologne
Video download – “On January 12th, 2002 the students of the Design Department at the University of Applied Sciences awarded John Maeda the ‘Cologne Thumper’ (Kölner Klopfer). Recording of the award ceremony including Maeda’s talk. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes long and contains the introduction and John Maeda’s talk.” (sendung.de)
Why it matters to focus on your reader
“Where are those who see websites as acts of creation separate from the people who will visit those websites. There are those who see people and create websites to meet these people’s needs.” (Gerry McGovern)
How to combine tags with facets
“The big advantage of adding metadata in the form of facets is that we know how to make an easy to use interface for facets.” (Peter van Dijck)
Beyond the pixels: Consider the entire experience
“As a designer, I would love to be able to control more of the environment and experiences of my customers. Identically, as a business person, I would love to be able to control more of the environment and experiences of my customers. After all, the user experience is influenced by far more than the applications we are creating. And in order to best do our jobs, we must reach beyond our limited charge and traditional thinking to look at the problem in a more holistic way. It is what we get paid to do; it is part of what makes us designers.” (Dirk Knemeyer)
Web Standards in the Real World: An Interview with Molly Holzschlag
“The learning curve to develop for standards is very high and demands that people constantly learn. The sheer volume of knowledge required to work this way is humbling, and I am challenged every single day by it. I think that’s why it’s so interesting for many developers.” (Joshua Porter – User Interface 10 Conference)
Alertbox: Ten Years
“300,000 words of usability essays have had an impact: online user interfaces are considerably easier to use now than they were in 1995. Many predictions and recommendations have come true, though the full Alertbox vision is far from realized.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
A New Adventure
“(…) I’m going to experiment with something completely new in the next few days: Podcasting. Stay tuned.” (Dirk Knemeyer)