September 2001

The Nature of Information

"Poetry is information fireworks" (Edward M. Housman)

Posted by PJB on September 29, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Wireframe Yourself

"Wireframing is wonderfully straight-forward, amazingly sensible and devoid of wonky-geek requirements." (GROK dot com - Future Now)

Posted by PJB on September 28, 2001 | Classification: Wireframes | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Guidance on Style Guides: Lessons Learned

"(...) the process of creating style guides and implementing processes for ensuring that a product is consistent in a number of dimensions" (Chauncey E. Wilson - Usability Interface / STC Usability SIG)

Posted by PJB on September 27, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Influence at Work

The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)

Posted by PJB on September 27, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Measuring User Experience

"(...) developing site goal definitions before you build the site is a very good thing" (Christopher Schmitt - DigitalWeb magazine)

Posted by PJB on September 26, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Top Usability Research Information Sites

"(...) a list of the top usability / ergonomic research sites" (TaskZ)

Posted by PJB on September 25, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Paper Prototyping

"(...) a technique that enables technical and non-technical personnel to cooperatively design user interfaces for GUI and Web applications." (Information & Design)

Posted by PJB on September 25, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Faceted Classification

"A facet is a clearly definied, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties or characteristics of a class or specific subject" (Ranganthan: Ahead of his Century)

Posted by PJB on September 24, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Advance for Design Summit 4

Scottsdale 2001 Conference Proceedings (AIGA Experience Design)

Posted by PJB on September 24, 2001 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Edward Tufte on Web Design

"(...) many in the audience were primarily interested in web design, and Tufte spent some time discussing this." (Adam Barr - Kuro5hin)

Posted by PJB on September 20, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Designing Scalable Interfaces

"Scalable interface design ensures that interface development takes account of the need to change over time." (Tom Farrell - Frontend.com Usability Center)

Posted by PJB on September 20, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Rapid Web Development

How to create flexible sites quickly using standards like CSS and XHTML. (James Lewin - The Lewin Group)

Posted by PJB on September 20, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Semantic Web: An Introduction

"(...) a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines" (Sean B. Palmer)

Posted by PJB on September 19, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Crafting the Compelling User Experience

Using a Methodical Software Engineering Approach to Model Users and Design (Dick Berry et al. - IBM Ease of Use)

Posted by PJB on September 19, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Interview: Elizabeth Boling

"It took me a while to realize that part of the problem is language" (Amy Satran - Journal of Design Science)

Posted by PJB on September 18, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Universal Usability & Learning

"Universal usability and design involves understanding how users attempt to accomplish tasks using a variety of technologies in different organizational and social contexts" (Brad Mehlenbacher - NC State University)

Posted by PJB on September 18, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Experience Architecture

A Framework for Designing Personalized Customer Interactions (David Rose - Design Management Institute Journal)

Posted by PJB on September 18, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Controlled Vocabularies Resource Guide

"(...) examples of thesauri and to classification schemes that may be used for controlling database or WWW site subject content." (Michael Middleton)

Posted by PJB on September 18, 2001 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Effective Info Architecture

"There are techniques and people who can help you become a better information architect." (Andrew Chak - Web Techniques)

Posted by PJB on September 14, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

NixLog

Visual insights into the brutal terrorist acts against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 (Paul Nixon)

Posted by PJB on September 14, 2001 | Classification: Information graphics | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

A Pragmatics of Links

"This paper applies the linguistic theory of relevance to the study of the way links work, insisting on the lyrical quality of the link-interpreting activity" (Susana Tosca - JoDI 1.6)

Posted by PJB on September 13, 2001 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Pros and Cons of XML

"(...) a better way of representing information in an increasingly linked, online world" (ZapThink Research)

Posted by PJB on September 11, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

For Here or To Go?

Designing User-Centered Experiences (Melissa Niederhelman - Loop 2001.3)

Posted by PJB on September 11, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

"One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods." (Douglas Engelbart 1962 - Bootstrap Institute)

Posted by PJB on September 11, 2001 | Classification: Classics | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Virtual Classroom Fall 2001

CDES-298c Information Design (Farmland - Frank Armstrong)

Posted by PJB on September 10, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Usable Learning

"The usability of online learning programs can be broken down into two distinct issues: the usability of an e-college site and the learnability of the course content" (Philip C. Duchastel - Castelnet)

Posted by PJB on September 10, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Experience Design 1

"Design may have finally broken out of Flatland, but it still lacks a comprehensive map to the new terrain" (Loop 2001.3)

Posted by PJB on September 10, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Ben Shneiderman on Information Visualisation

"(...) we have to understand how to combine visually appealing designs with effective designs" (Juan C. Dürsteler - InfoVis.net)

Posted by PJB on September 10, 2001 | Classification: InfoViz | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Interview with Steve Krug

"Steve Krug's latest book from New Riders rallies the cry of all web users faced with a slow-loading, convoluted website." (Let's Talk Computers)

Posted by PJB on September 10, 2001 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

What Are XForms?

"(...) forms have truly become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications" (Micah Dubinko - O'Reilly XML.COM)

Posted by PJB on September 07, 2001 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Google Web Directory

Information Architecture (Google)

Posted by PJB on September 07, 2001 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The 7th International Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems

"The workshop took place in conjunction with ACM Hypertext 2001, August 15, 2001, in Aarhus, Denmark." (Sigi Reich)

Posted by PJB on September 07, 2001 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Usability and Online Branding

"Online branding is fundamentally about the direct experience that the user enjoys." (Tom Farrell - Frontend.com Usability Center)

Posted by PJB on September 06, 2001 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium

Human-Computer Interaction, the Past and the Present (John M. Carroll - ACM/Addison Wesley)

Posted by PJB on September 06, 2001 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Information: Organized

"As we gradually become overwhelmed by digital content, we need to expand our focus to understand how, and why, information is organized." (Brian K. Smith - MIT Media Lab i:o)

Posted by PJB on September 05, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Usable Medicine Information

"What general principles of information design are applicable to designing medicine information for people?" (David Sless - Communication Research Institute of Australia)

Posted by PJB on September 05, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Information Design Research Publications

"This new multi-disciplinary field of study trains communicators who can work at the interface between engineering and the natural sciences, the media, the humanities and design." - (Rune Petterson - Dept. of Information Design and Product Development - Mälardalen University)

Posted by PJB on September 05, 2001 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Card Shark And Thespis

"(...) exotic tools for hypertext narrative" (Mark Bernstein)

Posted by PJB on September 04, 2001 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Exploring Users' Experiences of the Web

"(...) how users browse the Web and combine browsing with their other activities." (Barry Brown and Abigail Sellen - FirstMonday 6.9)

Posted by PJB on September 04, 2001 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Can Navigational Assistance Improve Search Experience?

"(...) adding navigational aids to search tools will enhance Web usability" (Mazlita Mat-Hassan and Mark Levene - FirstMonday 6.9)

Posted by PJB on September 04, 2001 | Classification: Navigation | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

The Visual Language in Graphic Design

"(...) little is known about how design knowledge might differ from knowledge in other fields" (Henry Lieberman - MIT Media Lab)

Posted by PJB on September 04, 2001 | Classification: Visual design | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Fly on the Wall

"Get to know what your users want with this low-cost method for collecting valid customer data" (St. Matthew-Daniel & Kamper - IBM Usability)

Posted by PJB on September 03, 2001 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack

Designing for Information Foragers

"A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking on the World Wide Web" (James Kalbach - internetworking)

Posted by PJB on September 02, 2001 | Classification: Search | Comments (0) | Permalink | TrackBack