April 2002

xBlog: Personas/Scenarios

A Resource List (XPLANE - xBlog)

Posted by PJB on April 26, 2002 | Classification: Personas | Comments (0) | Permalink

Experience Design Case Study Archive

"These five cases have been presented at the CHI2002 / AIGA Experience Design FORUM" (AIGA Experience Design)

Posted by PJB on April 25, 2002 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on April 25, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on April 24, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on April 23, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on April 23, 2002 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

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)

Posted by PJB on April 23, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

An Interview With Adam Greenfield

"IA is something that should be done by talking to people (primarily users, clients, and developers), asking the right questions, and listening carefully to the answers." (Meryl K. Evans - Digital Web)

Posted by PJB on April 22, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Adaptive Path Interview: Marc Rettig

"On average our industry was going too fast, which meant we were taking big risks." (Adaptive Path)

Posted by PJB on April 19, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context

"Author Al Badre has for years contributed to the ideas and methods needed to make any computer application fully usable." (Addison-Wesley)

Posted by PJB on April 18, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Human-Robot Interaction

Impressions from BayCHI April 2002 (Sara Kiesler & Pamela Hinds - HCI Journal)

Posted by PJB on April 17, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Using Conceptual Models in Interaction Design

"(...) how I did it with the creative team at Epinions." (Peter Merholz)

Posted by PJB on April 17, 2002 | Classification: Interaction design | Comments (0) | Permalink

AIGA Experience Design: Past, Present and Future

Erin Malone interviews Terry Swack and Clement Mok (Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on April 16, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Form, Function, Emotion

Inside the philosophy and process of Frog Design (Jenny Rose - New.Architect)

Posted by PJB on April 12, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Unraveling The Mysteries Of Metadata And Taxonomies

"Christina Wodtke (...) interviews Samantha Bailey" (Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on April 11, 2002 | Classification: Interviews - Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break

Daily Posting and Quaterly Article About Interaction Design (Hendrik Olsen)

Posted by PJB on April 11, 2002 | Classification: Weblogs | Comments (0) | Permalink

Participation and Design

Inquiring into the politics, contexts and practices of collaborative design work. (Malmö University, Sweden - 23-25 June 2002)

Posted by PJB on April 09, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Typographical Signage Project

"The Chicago urban environment is layered with graphic signage that crosses boundaries of time and culture." (Department of Visual Communications - Loyola University Chigago)

Posted by PJB on April 09, 2002 | Classification: Typography | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Cranky User: Drowning in Aqua

"Apple's new user interface, Aqua, reads like a checklist of things that the classic Macintosh interface got right, and everyone else got wrong. Aqua gets most of them wrong." (Peter Seebach - IBM developersWorks)

Posted by PJB on April 05, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Speaking in Tongues

"(...) this is not a place for jargon." (Christina Wodtke - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on April 05, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Using the Right Combination of Techniques to Involve Users

"(...) tips for which user-centered technique to use when, so you can better translate user needs into good design." (Deborah Hinderer Sova - Technology Executives Club)

Posted by PJB on April 04, 2002 | Classification: UCD - Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web

"This document is one of several resources created to assist the preparation of a business case for the implementation of Web accessibility." (W3C)

Posted by PJB on April 03, 2002 | Classification: Accessibility | Comments (0) | Permalink

Software For The People

"Bonnie Nardi is an anthropologist who studies how people use IT." (Elana Varon - CIO)

Posted by PJB on April 03, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

UCD For Different Project Types, Part 2

"(...) various types of projects: selecting a vendor application, evolution of an existing application, rewrite of an existing application, and development of a new application." (Lynn Percival & Jack Scanlon - IBM developerWorks)

Posted by PJB on April 02, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Story Behind Usability.gov

"(...) a place to share our knowledge about user-centered web design" (Sanjay Koyani - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on April 02, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Theory For Practice

"(...) a constructionist approach to information design and contrasts it with the more widely used constructivist approach." (David Sless - Communication Research Institute of Australia Inc.)

Posted by PJB on April 02, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Best of CHI-Web & SIGIA-L

"(...) a list of the summary postings from useful threads" (Scott Berkun - UIWeb)

Posted by PJB on April 01, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction

"With big labs disappearing, the future of HCI research is in jeopardy." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on April 01, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Usability & ROI

A Collection of Links (Rashmi Sinha)

Posted by PJB on April 01, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Formal Definition of User-Centered Design

"(...) a UCD approach meets both user needs and the business objectives of the sponsoring organization." (Charles L. Mauro - TaskZ)

Posted by PJB on April 01, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Poetics of Information Architecture

"For sites to reach their full potential, information architects must become the work and create form from chaos." (Michael Graber - Design Interact)

Posted by PJB on April 01, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink