Information Architecture Makes Design Accountable
“(…) having the lead visual designer with a focus on visual design and branding be responsible for the IA and interaction design of a website is wrong.” (Peter van Dijck – poorbuthappy)
Emergent Interface for the Internet
“(…) to bring all content into a unified visual context for human-to-human communications and interaction.” (John Ko – O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2002: Notes & Presentations)
Beyond Common Sense
A Talk by Jared Spool – April 8, 2002 (The British HCI Group)
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
“First, understand your customer and make things easy for them. (…) Secondly, understand the business goals and design your changes to work towards those goals.” (Jeff Lash – Boxes and Arrows)
Designing On Both Sides Of Your Brain
“The entire process of idea exploration, evaluation and implementation is reflective.” (Scott Berkun – Boxes and Arrows)
STC’s 49th Annual Conference
“This page contains links to materials provided by the conference presenters.” (Society for Technical Communication)
Scenarios Work!
Improving Requirements Engineering with Use Cases and Scenarios (July 10 2002, London UK)
Emotion and Affect
Don Norman on the value of beauty, fun and pleasure in design. (Ubiquity)
Preview ‘Freestyle’: New Interface For Extended PC Media Experiences
“Experience video, audio, pictures, and TV through a convenient, flexible user interface that makes it easier than ever to enjoy your digital media.” (Microsoft)
FacetMap
“A solution so simple that we can take any metadata you’ve got, and turn it into a browsing system right here on our servers.” (FacetMap.com)
Screen Language: The New Currency for Learning
“Kids are on to something big, says John Selly Brown (…)” (Martha Lagace – HBS Working Knowledge)
User Satisfaction Key to Viral Marketing
“(…) e-tailers often ignore the fact that they have to keep existing users happy to reap the benefits of new client referrals” (Christopher Saunders – Cyber Atlas)
Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The ‘Evolution of a Mindset’
“(…) I tend to think of my days designing for print as living in Flatland.” (Meg Cole – Boxes and Arrows)
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
“A company’s homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Promoting IA: Survey Results
“(…) we need better stories to tell.” (Louis Rosenfeld – Bloug)
Strategic Usability: Partnering Business, Engineering and Ease of Use
“The most limited view of usability engineering is often unintentionally promoted by usability engineers themselves.” (Scott Berkun – UIWeb.com)
Relationships: Structural Design Components
“All the fuss over findability from Peter’s article and the many insightful comments led me to think about this new concept until I saw this diagram in a dream.” (Christina Wodtke – elegant hack)
Why I’m Not Calling Myself An Information Architect Anymore
“I could probably put it in one simple word – respect.” (David Heller – Boxes and Arrows)
Users as Designers – Challenge of the Network Age
“(..) stop thinking about products’ end-users and start thinking about the system’s end-designer.” (Ann Light – Usability News)