All posts from
October 2005

Mobile Web Design: Tips & Techniques

Added on 27 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“This article attempts to present technical advice on a superficial level. Some tips may surprise the reader; others may disappoint. But let’s be clear about one thing: We’re not aiming to publish a replete guide to advanced mobile development, but rather a starting point for mobile development – both practical and ambitious. Hence, a superficial treatment of the topic.” (Cameron Moll – Authentic Boredom)

Emotion and the sense of presence in HCI design

Added on 20 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“Emotion is becoming accepted as an important ingredient of successful humancomputer interaction design. It has always been important in design, but as a discipline rooted in the methods and mindset of the cognitive psychology of the 70s and 80s, HCI has been slow to accept that affect (as exhibited in feelings of happiness or anxiety) is an essential component of reasoning about the world, not an opposing force. Although we may loosely speak of emotion versus reason, both too much and too little emotion will have a negative impact on cognition, with the latter being the more pathological.” (John Waterworth – uiGarden.net)

World Usability Day

Added on 20 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
A project of the Usability Professionals’ Association: Promoting usability concepts and techniques worldwide – “World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design,and every user’s responsibility to ask for things that work better. The Usabililty Professionals’ Association is doing that by encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring 36 hours of activities at the local level around the globe, all occurring on November 3, 2005.” (About WUD)

A Sense of Place: The Global and Local in Mobile Communication

Added on 20 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“Issues of placelessness, the spatial and social relations created by television’s emergence as a dominant medium, have been around since the mid-1980s. With the triumphant march of mobile telephony these issues today appear to gain new significance and are seen in a new light. Social science focussing on mobile communication increasingly recgnizes that the mobile telephone is not only a revolutionary instrument that connects people globally, it is also a powerful tool for connections on a more local scale: an organizer of life in small spaces and communities.” (Kristóf Nyiri)

For Inspiration Only: Thesis

Added on 19 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“This research has looked at how designers interact with visual material in the early phases of design and what new tools can do to support this. These questions were addressed by literature reviews and field studies, furthermore several working prototypes have been built, which have been used to gain and demonstrate the knowledge built up during this research.” (Ianus Keller – ID-Studiolab) – courtesy of peterboersma

Information Design: A map to meaning PDF Logo

Added on 18 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“(…) a presentation suggesting that in the most compelling information design, the expression of an idea should form a map to its meaning. This presentation includes collected exhibits and ideas from leading voices on the study of information design and its meaning. The first presentation of this material was given at Abt Associates in Cambridge Massachusetts.” (Andrew Maydoney – Sametz Blackstone Associates articles) – courtesy of cph127

New Challenges Retreat: Ideas, discussion, and a call to action

Added on 17 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
“This year’s IA Retreat – ‘New Challenges in Information Architecture’ – took place at the Edith Macy Conference Center, just north of New York City, October 7-9, 2005. Of the many themes discussed at the retreat, those that stood out revolved around the challenges of enterprise information architecture (as in very large enterprises, such as government agencies, and Fortune 100’s), cross-cultural IA issues, and designing user experiences for evermore complex, and increasingly less, web-centric systems.” (Anders Ramsay – Boxes and Arrows)

Information architecture in an European dimension: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

Added on 17 October 2005 Peter Bogaards
Presentation from Europe’s first information architecture summit – “This talk will take an analytical but subjective approach to the current state-of-affairs of (continental) European IA. The local IA communities of practice, knowledge and interest seem still premature, fragmented and not well-connected. Even if there is such a thing as an European IA community, it lacks a solid identity and definitely a strategy.” (Peter J. Bogaards – BogieLand)