“Are school systems, classrooms and teachers obsolete? No less so than the horse was with the coming of the automobile age (…)” (Kathy Sierra – Creating Passionate Users)

“The use case model can be a powerful tool for controlling scope throughout a project’s lifecycle. Because a simplified use case model can be understood by all project participants, it can also serve as a framework for ongoing collaboration as well as a visual map of all agreed-upon functionality. It can, therefore, be a precious reference during later negotiations that might affect the project’s scope.” (Norm Carr and Tim Meehan – A List Apart)

“Clement talked about his experience as president of AIGA and, more recently, his return to Sapient in trying to help them put together a(nother) design practice. Clement, being Clement, thinks in models, and presented two.” – (Peter Merholz)

“The natural home of the intranet is in communications. However, intranet management requires particular skills that many traditional communications departments don’t have.” (Gerry McGovern)

“Here is the list of the one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century as selected by our panel of esteemed judges from all the nominations we received. The works on the list are rank ordered, with #1 being the most influential.” (Millennium Project) – courtesy of elearningpost

“Over time, we believe that this combination of skills will become the norm and may even become mandatory for many Information Design positions. Given the current economic climate, employers are already demanding more from their prospective new hires. As evidence of this trend, look at the career section in your local newspaper and you will see that employers are now asking for combination skill sets for many jobs. Companies are looking for people who can simultaneously write, design and develop websites. With a small amount of cross-training, many of today’s Information Designers could position themselves for these multi-skilled jobs.” (Online Learning)

“Artefact derives from latin arte factum, which means artificial. In general, that implies an object made by the human hand, an artificial object. Artefacts are manmade for a specific purpose with an intention of fulfilling that purpose. Sometimes they also fulfill unspoken purposes. This paper addresses some aspects of the intentionally made artefacts and their way through the cooperative design process and how they will be attached to new meanings on the way.” (Sinna Lindquist and Bosse Westerlund – Working Papers in Art and Design)

“Documents must work for the people who send them, the people who produce them and the people that receive them.” (Cheryl Kay – The Financial Communications Forum 2004)

“(..) designed to give you experience in participating on an interdisciplinary project research, design and development team to produce solutions that address real-world issues and clients. Information design focuses on the communication of complex ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency (usable). Methodologies and technologies for efficient and effective information transfer are changing rapidly and will play a fundamental, and continual, role in your future. Products of information design range from computer (and other machines) interfaces, forms and documents (online or paper), wayfinding systems in 3D space (real or virtual), to maps, charts, diagrams, graphs and business presentations. Whatever your content area of specialty, you will be involved with the design and transfer of information the rest of your life.” (Information Design Group – University of Idaho)

“This paper describes wearable interfaces for augmenting human memory, i.e., providing users with functions for archiving, transporting, exchanging, and retrieving their experiences by employing real world objects as memory storage, in everyday life.” (Yasuyuki Kono et al. – Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces 2004)

“This collection of articles will give JoDI readers a sample of the insights that social informatics studies can bring to understanding digital information design, use and implementation. It is a vibrant field that draws contributions from academics and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines. It is sometimes difficult to find these works scattered among the many journals in which they are published.” (Journal of Digital Information 5.4)

“Like marriage, just because you don’t know what you’re getting into doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with it.” (Molly E. Holzschlag and Ethan Marcotte)

“Mind Maps are an incredibly powerful memory tool that have been compared to having a ‘Swiss army knife for the brain’. I am going to take you on a voyage of discovery that will take you, step by step, through the experiences, frustrations and explorations of one brain who found memory becoming his life’s passion and work.” (Tony Buzan – Map it!) – courtesy of xblog

“(…) an insightful monthly briefing on information design issues and ideas.” (Subscribe Dynamic Diagrams Newsletter)

“Design Engaged really was a smashing success, and I’d hate to think my encapsulation has failed to convey the intellectual contact high I experienced and in some ways am still riding. At least, maybe you can infer something useful from the shape these thoughts have assumed as they’ve filtered through my own vocabulary and prejudices.” (Adam Greenfield – v-2 Organization)

“The amount of work involved in designing a new intranet or redesigning an existing intranet is minor compared to the time needed to maintain an effective intranet over the longer term. In fact, it is common for the initial excitement of a new intranet to fade away as the reality of day-to-day maintenance and the challenges of improving the intranet become apparent.” (Donna Maurer and Tina Calabria – KM Column)

“Understanding where technology is strong and where people are strong is an essential skill of the modern manager. Too often today, technology is doing things that would be better done by people.” (Gerry McGovern)

Review – “The book is clearly intended as the beginning of an on-going dialogue. It ends a bit like a Star Wars movie, with the promise of a sequel. There is clearly opportunity for additional work in data representation, as well as deeper study into each of the areas described in these six chapters. However, the book provides an excellent incentive for system designers to pursue activity-centered design, and a good initial set of tools to start them on their way.” (Carl Bedingfield – ACM Ubiquity)

“Aspects of this worldview derived from his association in the 1940s with Warren McCulloch, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, and Norbert Wiener et al, who were all present at the creation of cybernetic theory. It was the radical epistemology behind these ideas seemed to inform a lot of this thinking.” (John Brockman – Edge)

“E-marketing is about substance over show, logic over emotion, and text over graphics. Good web marketers follow the Google motto: be useful.” (Gerry McGovern)