Squeakland

Added on 4 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Squeak is a ‘media authoring tool’ — software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others.” (Alan Kay c.s.)

Gates on the Lifespan of Desktop Computing

Added on 3 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“We’re doing anything where software runs – on TV, watches, video games, you name it. If it’s about writing great software that can empower people, we’re doing software for every one of those things. As long as we’re doing a good job writing software we’re targeting our software at the full range of devices.” (USATODAY) – courtesy of nooface

Web Search: How the Web Has Changed Information Retrieval

Added on 3 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Topical metadata have been used to indicate the subject of Web pages. They have been simultaneously hailed as building blocks of the semantic Web and derogated as spam. At this time major Web browsers avoid harvesting topical metadata. This paper suggests that the significance of the topical metadata controversy depends on the technological appropriateness of adding them to Web pages. This paper surveys Web technology with an eye on assessing the appropriateness of Web pages as hosts for topical metadata. The survey reveals Web pages to be both transient and volatile: poor hosts of topical metadata. The closed Web is considered to be a more supportive environment for the use of topical metadata. The closed Web is built on communities of trust where the structure and meaning of Web pages can be anticipated. The vast majority of Web pages, however, exist in the open Web, an environment that challenges the application of legacy information retrieval concepts and methods.” (Terrence A. Brooks – Information Research 8.3) – courtesy of victor lombardi

Usability!=User Experience

Added on 3 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“This is not to say usability engineering isn’t important — it’s critical. But it’s also critical that the practice’s inputs and outputs stay focused on making things *usable*, that is, making it so that people are able to use the product. Able as in physically able, cognitively able.” (PeterMe)

Inside Panther: A look at the Finder and System

Added on 3 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“One of the most significant changes in Panther is the revised Finder interface. The new Finder features the brushed-metal look from iTunes and a new Places sidebar along the left, with quick links to volumes and removable media at the top; and applications, files, and folders at the bottom. With these shortcuts, the Places sidebar replaces some of the previous functionality of the Finder toolbar.” (Nick dePlume – Think Secret)

Interview with Alan Kay

Added on 2 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Alan Kay knows what he has contributed to technology and the way we all, at home and at work, interact with computers. His frustration lies in how little use we make of the dynamism at our fingertips. He has very clear, very vocal ideas about the failures and setbacks caused by all sorts of dominant technologies – the World Wide Web prime among them. ‘Internet, good; World Wide Web, bad. The Web was put together by people with more energy than sophistication.'” (Rebecca Rolfes – HP Business View)

Personas and the Customer Decision-Making Process

Added on 2 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“With this case study, I want to show how our team used the concept of personas – fictional, representative user archetypes – and the customer decision-making process model in a project, in order to capture the nature of customers and their needs and concerns as they progress through the customer decision-making process.” (Henrik Olsen – GUUUI)

The Birth of BogieLand

Added on 1 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“(…) sometimes, the best thing to do is not to go with the flow. Therefore, I decided to embark on a new endeavor: to start my own company ‘BogieLand‘. So with pride, I would like to inform you that BogieLand is launched officially as of today as my personal consulting company for Information Design and Architecture services.” (Peter J. Bogaards – BogieLand) – Changes ahead

Architecture of the World Wide Web

Added on 1 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“The World Wide Web is a networked information system. Web Architecture consists of the requirements, constraints, principles, and choices that influence the design of the system and the behavior of agents within the system. When Web Architecture is followed, the large-scale effect is that of an efficient, scalable, shared information space.” (W3C) – courtesy of tim bray

Resonances and Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City

Added on 1 July 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Ubiquitous computing seeks to embed computers into our everyday lives in such ways as to render them invisible and allow them to be taken for granted, and social and cultural theories of everyday life have always been interested in rendering the invisible visible and exposing the mundane. Despite these related concerns, social and cultural studies have been almost entirely absent in discussions of the design of ubiquitous technologies. This essay seeks to introduce researchers in both fields to each other, and begin to explore the ways in which collaboration might proceed. By exploring mobile and ubiquitous technologies currently being used to augment our experiences of the city, this paper investigates notions of sociality, spatialisation and temporalisation as central to our experiences of everyday life, and therefore of interest to the design of ubiquitous computing.” (Anne Galloway – Purse Lips Square Jaw)