“Following the release of Aurora, a panel discussion about the project was hosted at UX Week by Leah Buley. The panelists included members of the Aurora team, Alex Faaborg of Mozilla Labs, and Jamais Cascio a futurist who worked with us at the beginning of the project. If you were unable to attend UX Week, you can see video of the discussion below in which the panelists discuss how the concepts shown in the video were identified, and what methods we used to bring them to life. The panelists also field some questions from Leah and the audience. Enjoy!” (
Adaptive Path blog)
“Creating usable audio is not difficult when you follow a few simple rules. These mostly stem from the creation of usable content in the form of text. Information architecture, journalism, educational psychology, usability engineering and interface design provide plentiful tips for doing so. Most of the methods used in these fields can be applied to the creation of audio.” (
Jens Jacobsen –
Boxes and Arrows)
“I believe the key here is empathy. It’s not just about knowing what’s wrong with the product, it’s also about acknowledging that to users this is a serious issue, and about being motivated to fix that for them.” (Jasper van Kuijk –
uselog)
“Informal histories of HCI commonly document two major intellectual waves that have formed the field: the first orienting from engineering/human factors with its focus on optimizing man-machine fit, and the second stemming from cognitive science, with an increased emphasis on theory and on what is happening not only in the computer but, simultaneously, in the human mind. In this paper, we document underlying forces that constitute a third wave in HCI and suggest systemic consequences for the CHI community. We provisionally name this the ‘phenomenological matrix’. In the course of creating technologies such as ubiquitous computing, visualization, affective and educational technology, a variety of approaches are addressing issues that are bad fits to prior paradigms, ranging from embodiment to situated meaning to values and social issues. We demonstrate the underlying unity of these approaches, and document how they suggest the centrality of currently marginal criteria for design, evaluation, appreciation, and developmental methodology in CHI work.” (Steve Harrison et al. 2007)
“A label for things that are convenient, practical, and functional.” (Lennart Grötzbach)
“An experience designer must love and care about people and the world in which we all live. It’s his mission in the world to proudly spread love and happiness through his creations.” (
Andrë Braz) –
courtesy of katerutter
“This page contains all the LIFT speeches that have been recorded over the years.” (LIFT Conference)
“Usability testing makes use of a lot of role-playing scenarios like this one, and many findings and design recommendations result from participants’ responses to these scenarios. But an over-reliance on role playing when testing a product and making design recommendations can have major downsides and risks (…)” (
Isabelle Peyrichoux –
UXmatters)
“At the center of the talk was that prediction that mobile devices will be within 15 years the main technology for persuasion. He argued that mobile phones are the greatest invention of human kind – more important than the writing and transportation systems (e.g. planes, cars). He explained why mobile phones are so interesting based on three metaphors: heart, wrist watch, magic wand.” (
Albert Schmidt –
User Interface Engineering)
“The conference on mobile human computer interaction (MobileHCI 2008) started today in Amsterdam with the tutorial and workshop day. (…) Have a look at the slides.” (
Albert Schmidt –
User Interface Engineering)
“I plan on relishing my remaining time here at Adaptive Path, even though I know with a pang in my heart the end is coming, and soon. I’ve worked here longer than any place I’ve ever worked. Here, I learned everything I know about running a design consultancy, and, truthfully, a lot of what I know about being a designer in general. It was here I sharpened my interaction design and product strategy skills, as well as honing my speaking and writing chops.” (
Dan Saffer –
Adaptive Path Blog)
“User Experience (UX) Week was held in San Francisco, CA from August 12–15. Boxes and Arrows, in co-operation with Adaptive Path, interviewed speakers in UX, IA, IxD, and Human Factors. Many thanks to the entire team at Adaptive Path for the opportunity to share these conversations with the communities of practice.” (
Jeff Parks –
Boxes and Arrows)
“InfoCamp is a hybrid unconference that blends the egalitarian, community-driven basis of barcamps and other unconferences and with some more conventional conference structures. Students, professionals, entrepreneurs and hobbyists from the user-centered information community are all encouraged to come together to join in the conversation, adding to the community of ideas and building connections to people who share a similar passion for information and how to best utilize and design information for the people that use it. InfoCamp is fueled by the serendipity that happens when connecting open, like-minded people with new ideas.” (September 27-28, 2008 – Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Seattle WA, USA)
“This section describes the motivations, assumptions, and directions behind Chromium’s user interface design. Its goal is to explain the current design in a way that further work can be developed in-style, or so that our assumptions can be challenged, changed, and improved.” (
CDD)
“New user testing of site maps shows that they are still useful as a secondary navigation aide, and that they’re much easier to use than they were during our research 7 years ago.” (
Jakob Nielsen –
Alertbox)
An Interview with Donna (Maurer) Spencer – “Lots of information architects are really good at doing detail work and lots are really good at the strategy work. But it’s a pretty amazing skill to accomplish both at once and to flip between them from second to second.” (Jared Spool –
User Interface Engineering) –
courtesy of usernomics
“In the past, user participation in editorial publications was limited to writing “letters to the editor.” On the web, users take an active role in shaping the message through their comments and debates. Bond Art + Science looked at how traditional media and online publications invite, manage and benefit from user participation, and we identified some best practices and common pitfalls.” (
Bond Art + Science)
“Since at least Richard Saul Wurman’s 1996 book
Information Architects>, architecture has been the primary metaphor for how ‘those who build websites’ think about what we do. By adding a new metaphor to our theoretical toolboxes, we can gain a richer, more nuanced understanding of the way that we inhabit cyberspace. This enhanced apprehension of the medium should enable us to create websites that better serve our users.” (
Aaron Rester –
A List Apart)
“Some of our presenters have posted slides for their main stage talks and/or their workshops. Here’s links to the slides that are currently available. All are in PDF format.” (
UX Week –
Adaptive Path)
“Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers.” (Nova Spivack –
ReadWriteWeb)
