Gel Video Clips
“Short for ‘Good Experience Live’, Gel is a conference, and community, exploring good experience in all its forms – in business, art, society, technology, and life.” (Good Experience Live Conference)
The Persona Lifecycle
Review by Ross Gagliano – “(…) for our computer professional society, one may wonder whether such a book will find its way into either a computer science or an information system curriculum. Good questions! Being contrary, maybe it should. However, my own experience suggests that it may be way too massive (722 pages) and terribly glitzy (hundreds of cartoon figures) to become a standard course text.” (ACM Ubiquity)
HyperScope
“HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open Hyperdocument System.” (Douglas Engelbart et al.) – courtesy of readwriteweb
From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting?
“Logical reasoning is a necessary condition. However, it’s increasingly clear that logic alone is not a sufficient condition for success for individuals and for organizations.” (Garr Reynolds – Presentation Zen)
The Web and the culture of free
“The Web has encouraged a belief that things can be free, or at least very cheap. It seems everyone is looking for a deal on the Web.” (Gerry McGovern)
The Laws of Simplicity
“(..) we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte ‘Read Me’ manuals. The iPod’s clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up.” (John Maeda)
Practical Personas: The User Is Always Right
“(…) a site devoted to the art and science of personas. It’s also the companion site to the book. The goal of this site is to keep the conversation going.” (Steve Mulder and Ziv Yaar)
The Big Picture of Microformats
“In this article, we’ll review what people are doing with microformats right now, and finish up by looking at a couple of cool projects that might whet your appetite for microformats’ future prospects.” (John Allsopp – Digital Web Magazine)
User Experience 2.0
“The remixability of content and applications, paired with the rapid speed of development, form the foundation of a collaborative architecture that promises to result in richer user experiences. However, a richer user experience isn’t necessarily a usable experience. In order for Web 2.0 to deliver on its promise, it must provide richer, usable experiences.” (TechSmith)
Refining Data Tables
“Many articles have been written on what is probably the single most ubiquitous interface element within Web applications today: the form. Forms justifiably get a lot of attention because their design is critical to successfully gathering input from users. Registration forms are the gatekeepers to community membership. Checkout forms are how eCommerce vendors close deals. But what goes in must eventually come out, and the information users provide to Web applications often makes its way back to users in the form of tabular data” (Luke Wroblewski – UXmatters)
Double Consciousness: Back to the Future with John Chris Jones
“Looking across the 35+ years in which Design Methods has been in use in multiple languages, what from your perspective is the biggest misconception about Design Methods?” (GK VanPatter – NextD)
Experiencing CHI 2006: From a Practitioner’s Viewpoint: Part IV/V
“This course was packed full of useful content.” (Pabini Gabriel-Petit – UXmatters)
Use Old Words When Writing for Findability
“Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries. If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won’t find your site.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
On Arranging Books by Color
“(…) organizing his books by color allows him to discover new and unexpected relationships between books he knows well already. When two unrelated books are forced to occupy the same shelf simply because of their spine color, the shelver is asked to think about whether they have ideas to share between them. Perhaps, the designers of these chromatically-related books saw something in the books’ content that even their authors did not. Maybe their ideals share a common hue?” (Rob Giampietro – Design Observer)
The end of deference and the rise of customer power
“The Web empowers the customer more than it empowers the organization. This shift in power is only beginning to be felt.” (Gerry McGovern)
Why Doing User Observations First is Wrong
“Usability testing is like Beta testing of software. It should never be used to determine ‘what users need’. It is for catching bugs, and so this kind of usability testing still fits the new, iterative programming models, just as Beta testing for software bugs fits the models. I have long maintained that any company proud of its usability testing is a company in trouble, just as a company proud of its Beta testing is in trouble. UI and Beta testing are meant simply to find bugs, not to redesign.” (Donald Norman – uiGarden.net)
Keynote at Hypertext conference
“Wikis were created in 1994 by Ward Cunningham, so he is considered the pioneer of wikis, and is the author of design patterns. Here are the notes from his talk.” (Notes by Alvin Chin – GadgetMan’s Blog)
Is it broken?
“Good design is possible with PowerPoint, so long as one knows a little something about design and how to best display information appropriate for their own unique situation.” (Garr Reynolds – Presentation Zen)
Scan This Book!
“What will happen to books? Reader, take heart! Publisher, be very, very afraid. Internet search engines will set them free. A manifesto.” (Kevin Kelly)
A Web 2.0 Tour for the Enterprise
“It’s a mistake to think Web 2.0 is all about the technology, but it’s also a mistake to dismiss the technology. The architecture of participation is baked into the architecture of the software.” (Shiv Singh – Boxes and Arrows)