“Apple and Ive are known for their attention to detail. ‘Simplicity speaks of the care of how our products are developed’, he said, ‘it’s not obvious how hard it was’.” (Jonny Evans – MacWorld UK)

“Harold G. Nelson and Garry K. VanPatter discuss ups and downs, ins and outs, challenges and opportunities, related to the reconstruction of design leadership. Not for the faint hearted.” – (About NextD Leadership Institute)

“By focusing on the user experience, the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab aims to improve lives through projects such as the International Children’s Digital Library.” (ACM Ubiquity)

“(…) I find that businesses don’t treat their web site as a publication, especially those organizations developing standard content, such as product and service descriptions. Instead, they view their site as a software project — a product that undergoes a development process and needs to be ‘released’.” (Christine Perfetti – User Interface 9 Conference)

“Andre Haddad is the Vice President of eBay’s Design Labs. He’s in charge of the user experience for eBay’s 114 million registered users. (…) During our interview, Andre listed five major tradeoffs, and why eBay’s decisions within those tradeoffs necessarily make the seller’s experience somewhat complex.” (Mark Hurst – Good Experience) – courtesy of uidesigner

“Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but he had something bigger in mind all along. He tells TR how his 15 years of work on the ‘Semantic Web’ are finally paying off.” (Mark Frauenfelder – Technology Review)

“Jay and Dan sat down recently to discuss the current state of journalism and the impact technology is having on traditional media.” (O’Reilly Network)

“My philosophy of usability testing has always been that it is the best way to find out how well a draft or prototype or product is doing for its users. I’ve always believed that usability is about helping designers and developers create products where users can quickly and easily find what they need and understand what they find.” (Christine Perfetti – User Interface Engineering)

A conversation with Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO) – “The majority of companies today realizes that the world is changing faster than they can change, and therefore existing assumptions about markets, business models, and products and services will not necessarily hold true. The consequence of this is that the kind of questions asked by companies as they embark on design and innovation projects is different.” (Garry K. VanPatter – NextD)

“User Engineering is a major advancement because it delivers value, not simply Ease of Use. We all salute the flag called Ease of Use, but when it comes time to pay for it, people are reluctant if they can’t see the tangible value of a product. So if you try to identify that value up front, it makes investing in the product more concrete for the buyer.” (IBM Ease of Use)

“What I try to do is to explain things to people, and for people, and sometimes to companies about themselves. Taking some complex procedure, or event, or set of numbers, and making it understandable for people that haven’t got a clue about it in the first place.” (Mike Buchheit – Creative Refuge)

“Aza Raskin talks about The Humane Environment, his father (inventor of the Macintosh), and challenging the status quo. This apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” (ACM Ubiquity)

“The ultimate technology world will be soft, flexible and addressable. But the issues will remain the same, according to interface designer S. Joy Mountford: What do people like and what do people want?” (ACM Ubiquity)

“Ben Shneiderman is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. He is founder of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and has written extensively on human-computer interaction and human factors in computing. Ben received the ACM CHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. During the conference ‘Interaction Design and Children’ at the University of Maryland, Ivo Weevers and Wouter Sluis had the great opportunity to conduct an interview with Ben Shneiderman.” (SIGCHI.nl)

“There is resistance. It comes in many different ways, and often it’s from the highest-level executives who don’t even realize how bad their intranet is, because they don’t use it themselves.” (Brad Wieners – CIO Insight)

“The trial separation of bits and atoms is now over, says William J. Mitchell, head of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Computers are ubiquitous. Wireless links provide constant connectivity. Everything is media. Increasingly, we are living our lives at the points where electronic information flows, mobile bodies, and physical places intersect in particularly useful and engaging ways. These points are becoming the occasions for a characteristic new architecture of the twenty-first century.” (David Pescovitz – TheFeature)

“Organizations today are the people and all the relationships and emotions between people. Projects are living networks of people. That’s a huge change from times past when you looked at organizations as machines.” (Garry VanPatter – NextD Journal 4.1)

“Structure is the foundation in which good design is built. Just like a house, you wouldn’t build it without blueprints and laying the foundation first. Structure is perhaps the most important thing that goes into a web site. Without structure the site is just a pile of broken 2x4s and sealed off doorways. In technical terms, structure is everything from the conceptual wireframes, to the tangible markup and coding.” (Web Standards Group)

“Another big difference is how the instructions are written. When modifying language on the existing 1040, Karen Schriver took care to make statements before qualifying them.” (Avrum D. Lank – JSOnline) – courtesy of beth mazur

“Firstly, can I ask if you’re a regular visitor to the Hypertext Conference? – No, sorry to say. Possibly been over a decade; I think in Texas, and Tim B-L described the plans that turned into the WWW. (…) In terms of the concepts and innovations I’ve been trying to communicate to the world, I seriously feel that I have been a persistent failure.” (Simon Harper – SIGWEB)