Digital Future: Blogs and Knowledge
Addressing the US Library of Congress – “… provocative, entertaining and truely delightful.” (David Weinberger) – courtesy of euansemple
All posts from
October 2005
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
“Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Hurricane Katrina and the Dot Com Bubble
“There has never been more information. And that’s exactly the problem. Too much information too quickly published is just as bad as too little.” (Gerry McGovern)
EuroIA Blog
“Join the conversation.” – Platform for sharing knowledge, ideas, experiences and contacts during the ASIS&T 2005 Euro IA Summit in Brussels: Oct. 15-16, 2005. (EuroIA 2005)
Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks
“(…) excerpt from Mr. Morville’s new book, Ambient Findability – Findability precedes usability in the alphabet and on the web you can’t use what you can’t find.” (A List Apart)
Authority
“The real upheaval lies just ahead, as a generation of school kids (and their teachers and librarians) struggle to reconcile traditional notions of education and objectivity and authority with the constructivist web of social facts and collective intelligence where folksonomies flourish and the truth is a virus of many colors. I can hardly wait.” (Peter Morville)
The best thing about Web 2.0
“Real knowledge and understanding is the product of a co-creation.” (Kathy Sierra – Creating Passionate Users)
Usability-driven open platform for mobile government
“The main goal of USE-ME.GOV is to contribute to a Next-Generation Open Service Platform for mobile users that can be shared by networked authorities and institutions (e.g. on a regional scale) in terms of technical infrastructure, information (content) as well as a framework for commercial exploitation.” (Contact use-me.gov) – courtesy of usabilitynews
Selecting a content management system 
“The biggest risk is selecting the wrong product.” (James Robertson – Step Two Design)
Co-Experience
“This dissertation introduces an approach to understanding user experience that departs from the more traditional user or product centric approaches. This approach, co-experience, builds on an understanding of experience as social interaction. It focuses on how in and through social interaction experiences and their products come to find their place in people’s lives.” (Katja Battarbee – University of Art and Design Helsinki Dissertations)
R.I.P. WYSIWYG
“Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Why is corporate communications seen as fluffy?
“In many organizations, corporate communications doesn’t get a lot of respect. The intranet gives a rare opportunity for corporate communications to get the respect it deserves.” (Gerry McGovern)
InfoGraphics Seminar Handout
“I prepared this document as a handout to my October 2005 seminars on Infographic Design to the Visual Communications students at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.” (Venkatesh Rajamanickam: venkatra at gmail dot com)
Content is King No More: Web 2.0 is About Interaction
“(…) the thing that is most glaring and poignant to me is the seismic shift in importance from a focus on content and information to behavior and interaction.” (Dirk Knemeyer) – Like interacting with other humans, a combination of structure (‘parts and wholes’), content (‘thoughts’), and form (‘behaviour’) is what makes a digital environment ‘tick’.
Putting people first
“Daily insights in the burgeoning field of experience design, user experience and innovation.” (Mark Vanderbeeken)
The Design Encyclopedia
“The design encyclopedia is a wiki, which means that any registered user can add, delete or change any of the information on the encyclopedia. (…) The purpose of the design encyclopedia is to build a resource where anything and everything is explained through its design implications and background.” (UnderConstruction) – courtesy of antenna
Cross-Disciplinary Exchanges
An interview with Donald A. Norman – “One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it’s the box it comes in. That’s because Apple really understood that the iPod was not about the iPod; it was about the entire experience: the way they design their stores, the box it comes in, the iTunes website, the ease of getting the user back and forth.” (Mark Zachry – RedNova News) – courtesy of usernomics
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
“The oldies continue to be goodies – or rather, baddies – in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
University websites come of age
“University websites have matured significantly over the last 2-3 years. There are fewer pictures of buildings and smiling faces, and greater focus on helping students decide why they should enroll.” (Gerry McGovern)
