Interface Gets The Point
“Getting computers to understand humans the way humans understand humans is a tremendous challenge.” (Technology Research News) – courtesy of lucdesk
Prognostication Digitalis
“2002 was the year the rubber hit the road.” (Chris tina Wodtke – Boxes and Arrows)
Faceted Approach to Web Redesign
“A site’s information architecture is not usually the first thing that comes to the minds of web developers. Most of the time it is only after a site is built that the deficiencies are noted and solutions are sought. At that point an assessment of the information architecture becomes a task that should be considered.” (Barbara Gulten & Jonathan Broad – IAWiki)
Merging Spaces: From Digital Information Architecture to Narrative Imagination
Peter Anders in conversation with Sabine Breitsameter (AudioHyperspac e)
Predictions for 2003
“Information architecture will grow in importance. More organizations will recognize that organizing information efficiently is one of the key challenges they face.” (Gerry McGovern)
Usability Testing: Myths, Misconceptions and Misuses
“In this article, I identify and try to straighten out some common misconceptions about usability testing.” (Richard F. Dillon – HOT Lab, Carleton University) – courtesy of elearningpost
Wu
“Wu is a pattern language for designing and building usable web sites.” (Ian Graham et al.) – courtesy of iawiki
Mapping Web Sites
IDblog: an information design blog
“IDblog is Beth Mazur tilting at power law windmills. A little bit Internet, a little bit technology, a little bit society, and a lot about designing useful information products.” (Beth Mazur)
A Wandering Tread: Exploring Hyperfiction
“Hyperfiction is a narrative form that makes use of the characteristics of the Internet to tell a story.” (Carolien van den Bos) – courtesy of hypertextkitchen
IA: Educating Information Architecture
Chapter from ‘Information Architecture: an Emerging 21nd Century Profession’ (Earl Morrogh) – courtesy of iaslash
Business-Centered Design: The Fusion of Usability and Marketing
“In traditional user-centred design, focus is on users’ needs and their use of the product, while marketing is left to the marketing department. On the web, usability and marketing go hand in hand.” (Henrik Olsen – guuui)
Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
“Metadata is information about information: more precisely, it’s structured information about resources.” (Search Tools)
The History of Visualization
“The history of visualisation is that of the search for new artefacts to amplify the ability to know; it’s the history of writing and of maps, the history of knowledge.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
The Glass Wall: BBCi Design Process Document
“(…) here is a document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage. The research methods and synthesis they went through is pretty interesting, and hopefully some of the process, artifacts and outcomes documented might be useful for web design practitioners.” (Matt Jones)
Multimodality: The Next Wave of Mobile Interaction
“Multimodality is new technology that hopes to enhance the mobile user experience by enabling network operators to combine speech, touch and onscreen displays for intuitive and powerful mobile applications.” (James Colby – Speech Technology Magazine) – courtesy of nooface
Archiving Experience Design
Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
“As the Web grows, websites continue to come up with ways to annoy users. Following are ten design mistakes that were particularly good at punishing users and costing site owners business in 2002.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
iknovate
“Balancing the kinetic energy between people, process, and technology requires a cognitive ability to step ‘inside’ the box and not be blinded by the walls. It requires the ability to iknovate.” (Paula Thornton)