Wurman’s Last Waltz at TED12
“A star-studded crowd gathers in Monterey as the annual conference prepares for a major transition.” (Gary A. Bolles – Business 2.0)
Visual Journalism
A Guide for New Media Professionals (Christopher R. Harris & Paul Martin Lester)
The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface
“(…) users will more and more expect to be able to search automated information stores in ways that are comfortable and familiar to them.” (Marcia J. Bates – Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California of LA)
IA/Recon 6/6
Secrets and Messages (Jesse James Garrett)
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
“(…) authoritative information on the theory behind the Macintosh ‘look-and-feel’ and the practice of using individual interface components.” (Apple Computer)
Perceptual User Interfaces 2001 Workshop
“(…) to make the user interface more natural and compelling by taking advantage of the ways in which people naturally interact with each other and the world, both verbally and non-verbally.” (PUI Workshops)
UI Expert Jef Raskin Talks Skins
“(…) which is better: the ability to customize an ideal desktop for a platform, or the use of a less-than-ideal desktop in order to achieve consistency.” (Kelly McNeill – osOpinion)
Fighting (with) Hierarchies
“Hierarchies are a way to structure complex systems, such as organizations, technical devices, or software.” (Gerd Waloszek – Usability Engineering Center of SAP AG)
The Visual Display of Quantitative XML
“This article discusses the creation of useful graphical presentations of quantitative XML data using XSLT and SVG.” (Fabio Arciniegas – O’Reilly’s XML.COM)
Jakob Nielsen Told Me To Do It
“(…) the man widely regarded as the king of Net usability, whose rules of Web design have been followed by millions of people” (Dan Oliver – .Net)
Communicating Health Messages Effectively
“(…) a mutual support group that aims to raise the profile of design as an integral part of the UK National Health Service.” (Designers in Health)
Create Usable Web Sites
“(…) giving users the experience they want and expect. Good design is what it’s all about.” (Jane Falla – Advisor)
Online Resources
“Links to resources of varying quality. Use with care.” (A Pearcey Centre for Computing Short Course)
IA/Recon 5/6
Tomorrow’s Architect (Jesse James Garrett)
Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
“(…) some food for thought, and a variety of resources and activities to support your exploration of interaction design.” (Jenny Preece et al. – Wiley & Sons)
Perceived Information Architecture
User Feedback (John Rhodes – WebWord)
Multimodal Interaction Activity
“(…) W3C is developing standards for a new class of mobile devices that support multiple modes of interaction.” (W3C)
Acclaimed Usability Expert Talks
“After a decade writing computer manuals, in 1989 Steve Krug moved up the food chain to usability testing and interface design so he could fix the problems instead of explaining them.” (Jude Murray – webBusters)
Location-Awareness for Improving the Usability of Mobile Enterprise Applications
“Our current implementation uses Semantic Locations from the shop’s infrastructure, but we plan to consider also Physical Location in the future.” (Axel Spriestersbach – SAP Design Guild)
Empathic Instructional Design
“(…) cues from Interaction Design, Usability Engineering and Product Design on a process known as empathic design, a user-centered approach to design that can lead to innovative e-learning.” (Maish Nichani – eLearningPost)