International Conference: InfoDesign ed 2002
Sept. 16-17, 2002 – University of Reading, UK (International Institute for Information Design)
Smarter Content Publishing
Building a semantic website to increase the efficiency and usability of publishing systems (Victor Lombardi – Digital Web Magazine)
Usability Professionals: Stay Prepared for Business Waves
“(…) how you can prepare for the uncertainties of the waves of the current work environment, both how to ride the wave and how to handle it if you fall off your surfboard.” (Anne M. Pauker – The UPA Voice)
Information Design Journal 1979-2001: Table of Contents
Building a knowledge-base for the practice of Information Design (Karel van der Waarde – IDJ)
Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?
Introduction to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Issue on Information Architecture (Andrew Dillon – JASIST 53.10)
Why XP and UX Have Something in Common
“It’s true your initial design may not be perfect the first time, which is why UX works best when you take an iterative approach – and that’s where things like card sorting exercises, paper prototyping, etc are just as necessary as the programming prototypes.” (George Olsen – Usability News)
Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B!
“(…) how topic maps can be used to help solve interoperability problems between XML B2B vocabularies.” (Marc de Graauw – XML.com)
Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. Powazek
“I advise clients to never call their sites ‘communities’.” (Christine Perfetti – User Interface 7 East)
IAnything Goes: The Age of Information Architecture
“This month’s issue of Digital Web focuses entirely on information architecture, and this is the first monthly column titled “IAnything Goes” which will address information architecture on its own.” (Jeff Lash – Digital Web Magazine)
GNOME: Human Interface Guidelines
“(…) how to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole. It is written for interface designers, graphic artists and software developers who will be creating software for the GNOME environment.” (GNOME Developer’s Site)
Flash Strikes Back: Creating Powerful Web Applications
“(…) Flash delivers the power and flexibility to become a serious contender in the web application space.” (Christine Perfetti – UI Engineering)
Experience Working with HCI Folk
“(…) programmers are relatively open to usability input, especially as it often reduces the amount of implementation they have to do (especially trivial implementation).” (Joel on Software Forum)
Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B!
“(…) how topic maps can be used to help solve interoperability problems between XML B2B vocabularies.” (Marc de Graauw – XML.com)
Recording Screen Activity During Usability Testing
“A visual record of these mouse movements, keystrokes, and other activities is most useful for usability testing.” (Karl Fast – Boxes and Arrows)
A hyperlink knows no depth
Unexpected ramifications of deep linking (NUblog)
Information Overload: You Need To Get Organized
“Information overload has striking similarities to pollution.” (Gerry McGovern)
Let Users Control Font Size
“Tiny text tyrannizes users by dramatically reducing task throughput. IE4 had a great design that let users easily change font sizes; let’s get this design back in the next generation of browsers.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
KartOO Meta Search
“If there were a beauty contest for search engines, Kartoo – developed in France by cousins Laurent and Nicolas Baleydier – would win the crown.” (Contact KartOO)
Top 10 Design Problems
“Cognitive overload happens when the user is bombarded with too much unprioritized or unfiltered information that is typically not needed for the current task (…)” (Michael Moore – Health InfoDesign)
Lifelike Computer Characters: the Persona project at Microsoft Research
“(…) exploring social user interfaces that employ an explicitly anthropomorphic character to interact with the user in a natural spoken dialogue.” (Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group – Microsoft Research)