August 2000

Sonic and Visual Structures

Theory and Experiment (Nicolas Schöffer)

Posted by PJB on August 31, 2000 | Classification: Audio design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Universal Usability

Responding to the needs of forgotten users (Ben Shneiderman in ACM Ubiquity)

Posted by PJB on August 30, 2000 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Usability Pattern Collection

"Currently this collection simply contains seeds of potential patterns" (The Usability Group at the University of Brighton, UK)

Posted by PJB on August 29, 2000 | Classification: Patterns | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Computer Events

"(...) the essay suggests extensions to current GUI design canons that uniquely attend to interactivity as an aesthetic issue" (Stephen Wilson of SF State University)

Posted by PJB on August 28, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Telluride 2000 Meeting

"This meeting is being called to address a critical need, not just an opportunity." (Advance for Design - AIGA)

Posted by PJB on August 25, 2000 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Experience Design Family Tree

Merger and Acquisition: The Changing Practice of HCI and Design (Nico Macdonald of Ascendant Partners)

Posted by PJB on August 25, 2000 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Architecture of Web Applications

"(...) many organizations undertake morphing their Web sites into Web applications with little thought for architecture" (Grady Booch in IBM: The Expert Perspective)

Posted by PJB on August 24, 2000 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

The History of Unix

"(..) a little diagram of Unix history" (Éric Lévenéz)

Posted by PJB on August 24, 2000 | Classification: Information graphics | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Journal of Conceptual Modeling

"(..) a free journal dedicated to data modeling, design, and implementation issues" (InConcept Inc.)

Posted by PJB on August 24, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Tim's User Interface Guidelines

"(...) if you understand and can articulate these concepts to others through your information design, architecture and visual design efforts, the web could be a very different place than it is today." (Tim Gasperak)

Posted by PJB on August 23, 2000 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

POIX and NVML

Point of Interest eXchange Language / NaVigation Markup Language (W3C Notes)

Posted by PJB on August 21, 2000 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

Experience Design

"Experience Design is an emerging paradigm" (Bob Jacobson - A List Apart)

Posted by PJB on August 21, 2000 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Design Patterns for e-Commerce

"(...) $6 billion was lost due to poor web experiences in 1999" (Doug van Duyn et al., NetRaker Corporation)

Posted by PJB on August 16, 2000 | Classification: Patterns | Comments (0) | Permalink

Ask Doctor Web:Design

"Design consists of the useful, conceptual, and (hopefully) pleasing arrangement of content." (Jeffrey Zeldman Presents)

Posted by PJB on August 16, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web Site Design Process

"(...) three subproblems: Information Design, Interaction Design and Presentation Design" (Harry Tennant & Associates)

Posted by PJB on August 15, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Rune Pettersson

Professor of Information Design (Mälardalen University - Sweden)

Posted by PJB on August 15, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Educating the Information Architect

Strange Connections in ACIA (Peter Morville's bi-weekly column on InfoArch - Argus Associates)

Posted by PJB on August 15, 2000 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Indexing and InfoArch

"The Index is the Key" (Contact Seth Maislin)

Posted by PJB on August 14, 2000 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Constructing User-Centered Websites

Design Implications for Content Organization (Usability News Summer 2000)

Posted by PJB on August 14, 2000 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Jakob Nielsen's Spotlight

"List of links and sites that have been spotlighted with commentary" (Useit.com)

Posted by PJB on August 14, 2000 | Classification: Weblogs | Comments (0) | Permalink

Principia Cybernetica Web

"(...) to develop a complete philosophy or "world-view", based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies." (Editorial Board: Turchin, Joslyn, Heylighen, Bollen)

Posted by PJB on August 11, 2000 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Society and Cyberculture

From one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at the College of Arts and Sciences - Virginia Tech)

Posted by PJB on August 10, 2000 | Classification: Weblogs | Comments (0) | Permalink

Inhabiting Information

The Architecture of Cognitive Amplification (Barbara Pfenningstorff - MSc Virtual Environments - The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment)

Posted by PJB on August 09, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

The HTML Hell Page

"Some curmudgeonly comments on bad Web design" (Eric S. Raymond)

Posted by PJB on August 09, 2000 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design Discipline

"According to RSW, the crucial emerging profession of the twenty-first century is that of information architect" (Art and Culture)

Posted by PJB on August 09, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Certificate in Information Design

"An interdisciplinary program that draws on the principles of information design" (Faculty of Information Studies - University of Toronto)

Posted by PJB on August 08, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Experiences

A Pattern Language for User Interface Design (Todd Coram and Jim Lee)

Posted by PJB on August 08, 2000 | Classification: Patterns | Comments (0) | Permalink

Thesauri Online

"There are many thesauri available through the Internet" (American Society of Indexers)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design on the Web: XML

"XML is very powerful (...)" (School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

Criteria for Optimal Web Design

"... questions to address some of the more important human factors concerns in the design and building of usable websites." (Michael L. Bernard in SURL)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Visualization

"Information visualization is an emerging scientific and technical area." (AT&T Labs-Research)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: InfoViz | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design: Online Informatics

"Designing a Worldwide Information Structure" (Kjell-Erik B. Eilertsen & Ole Øyvind Stensli - Information Design Class)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architect makes the Web work

"Information Architect: a job that is becoming increasingly more important as the world moves to the Web" (Mercury Center)

Posted by PJB on August 07, 2000 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Color Scheme

"(...) how our brain draws colour pictures" (Beyond 2000)

Posted by PJB on August 06, 2000 | Classification: Visual design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don Norman on Edward Tufte

"Tufte lacks an understanding of people and (...) is often wrong about what constitutes good communication." (ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors mailing list)

Posted by PJB on August 04, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Poor Usability of Award Winning Web Sites

"(...) focus on South African sites that have received Loerie Awards" (Jacques Steyn - Dept IS/School of IT - Univ. of Pretoria, SA)

Posted by PJB on August 03, 2000 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Notes on Web Design

"Valerie Casey is a user experience strategist" (ValCasey)

Posted by PJB on August 03, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Aggregrating Experience

Problems delivering User Centered Design (uidesign.net)

Posted by PJB on August 02, 2000 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

XML Document Navigation Language

"(...) the navigation of content which helps the user to easily browse a huge document on relatively small devices." (W3C Note - NEC)

Posted by PJB on August 02, 2000 | Classification: Navigation | Comments (0) | Permalink

MUSIST

Multimedia User Interfaces For Interactive Systems and TV (GSM Software Management AG)

Posted by PJB on August 01, 2000 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Design Research Society

"(...) the essence of the activity called design is common to many disciplines" (Contact David Durling)

Posted by PJB on August 01, 2000 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

CyberBridge

A multimedia site on 4D-design (De Montfort University)

Posted by PJB on August 01, 2000 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink