The Language of Interaction: Rich Interfaces, Networks and Design Patterns

Added on 20 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“Inside any organization, you’ve already evolved your own set of patterns and should have some way of collecting this knowledge. Knowledge management and sharing should focus not only on patterns, but also on methods for knowing when to use a particular pattern and when not to. You don’t have to create a complex Web application. Wikis and blogs are easy to set-up and maintain, and they offer a simple way to manage information about patterns.” (Austin Govella – ASIS&T Bulletin: Special Issue on Information Architecture) – courtesy of petermorville

Give users a Hollywood ending

Added on 20 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“We can all take a lesson from filmmakers: endings matter. The way we end a conversation, blog post, user experience, presentation, tech support session, chapter, church service, song, whatever… is what they’ll remember most. The end can matter more to users than everything we did before. And the feeling they leave with is the one they might have forever.” (Kathy Sierra – Creating Passionate Users)

Experience Design

Added on 10 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“(…) the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, and environments — each of which is a human experience — based on the holistic consideration of an individual’s or group’s needs, desires, beliefs, knowledge, skills, experiences, and perceptions.” (according to Wikipedia)

IDEA 2006 blog

Added on 10 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“Over the next few months leading to the conference, and probably for a little while afterward, this blog will be the main source of news and information about the forthcoming IDEA conference. There will be links to concepts related to the conference, interviews with conference presenters, and who knows what else.” (IDEA 2006 Conference: Seattle Public Library – Oct. 23-24, 2006) – courtesy of peterme

Clickstream Study Reveals Dynamic Web

Added on 10 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“A new browser study revealed a shift in how we interact with the Web. University of Hamburg researchers found the Web moving from static hypertext information to dynamic interactive services. Clickstream heatmaps and web page statistics show rapid interaction over smaller areas of the screen. The authors recommend that web developers create concise, flexible, and fast loading web pages to keep pace with the speed of web navigation.” (WebSiteOptimization) – courtesy of guuui

E-Learning 2.0

Added on 9 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It’s the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it’s changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.” (Stephen Downes – eLearn Magazine)

A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 3/3

Added on 8 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
Jesse James Garrett interviews Steven Johnson- “Tufte played a huge role in popularizing the story — to this day, most of the people I meet who are familiar with it read about it in Tufte first. He actually wrote about it twice, (…). His original assessment was factually wrong on a number of fronts – it greatly overstated the role of the map in solving the mystery of where the cholera was coming from, and the map itself that Tufte included was a heavily modified replica created for a 1912 textbook on public health. In the later book, he got the story right, though I think he’s a little too bullish on the map’s originality as a work of information design.” – (Adaptive Path)

Is Design Political?

Added on 8 August 2006 Peter Bogaards
“In 2001, design and politics hit the news big time when it was revealed that Florida’s badly designed butterfly ballot could have cost Al Gore the U.S. presidency. It is perhaps the most widely quoted example of the political impact of design. Yet pose the question, ‘Is design political?’ to the design industry and you’ll get back a big, resounding, ‘no’.” (Jennie Winhall – uiGarden.net)