Jared Spool, a Man with a Task
“So he is researching how to categorise in such a way that search becomes redundant. Key to this is the labelling of categories.” (Ann Light – Usability News)
The CHI/AIGA Experience Design Forum
“(..) we’re at an inflection point, with the potential to play a major role in making businesses successful.” (George Olsen – Boxes and Arrows)
Principles of Educational Multimedia User Interface Design
“The purpose of the principles is to maximize the learning effectiveness of multimedia applications.” (Lawrence J. Najjar – Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Behind the Firewall – Information Architecture and Usability
“Information architecture is the process of designing the access to information so that users can rely mainly on their intuition to navigate quickly and productively around the site.” (Martin White – EContent)
Usability, Collaboration and Organizational Design
“(…) usability specialists are often the first to go in times of downsizing because the fundamental importance of usability is not yet fully understood.” (Karin Lindgaard – HOTLab)
Interview with Karel Vredenburg of IBM
“There is no way that I would have been able to take what Apple did and move it over to IBM.” (Karin Lindgaard – HOTLab)
Gratuious Graphics and Human-Centred Website Design
“I’m a fan of art and beauty, of aesthetically pleasing design” (Don Norman)
And The Nominees Are …
“The Webby Awards 2002 Nominees (…) These nominees exemplify the very best that the Internet has to offer.” (Webby Awards)
Usability for Senior Citizens
“Current websites are twice as hard to use for seniors than for non-seniors.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
The Pendulum Returns
Unifying the Online Presence of Decentralized Organizations (Peter Merholz – Adaptive Path)
Designing Medical Products for Usability
Ergonomics dictate interface between hand and surgical tool. (Kent Ritzel – Medical Equipment Designer)
Cross the Learning Desert in a Ferrari
An Interview with David Gray (founder and president of Xplane) (Kelly Sikes – LineZine)
The Age of Findability
“Like usability, findability applies broadly across all sorts of physical and virtual environments.” (Peter Morville – Boxes and Arrows)
xBlog: Personas/Scenarios
Experience Design Case Study Archive
“These five cases have been presented at the CHI2002 / AIGA Experience Design FORUM” (AIGA Experience Design)
What is an Intelligent Interface?
“An ‘intelligent system’ does not necessarily have an intelligent interface, and neither is a well-designed interface necessarily intelligent.” (Annika Wern 1997)
Travelling The City
Information Design Summer Academy 2002: July 8-27 Vienna (International Institute for Information Design in cooperation with the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University)
Research, Deliverables, Process and the Team
“I was playing around with this fairly stream-of-consciousness kind of diagram to get a clearer picture of how the different types of research and deliverables you do as an IA feed into the process and the team.” (Poor But Happy)
Just How Far Beyond HCI Is Interaction Design?
“The scope of interaction design opens up possibilities for genuinely better user experiences of information technology.” (Jonas Löwgren- Boxes and Arrows)
Top Information Architecture and Interface Design Sites
“We welcome your comments and additional links that add intelligently to any of our Top 10 lists.” (TaskZ.com)