May 2002

Reestablishing the Value of Content

Everything has a cost, even so-called 'free' content (Gerry McGovern - ACM Ubiquity)

Posted by PJB on May 29, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Taxonomic Distress

The Challenge of Developing Effective Taxonomies for Web-facing Businesses (Lane Becker - Adaptive Path)

Posted by PJB on May 29, 2002 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Bottom-line of Prototyping and Usability Testing

"How user-centered design techniques can make a cost effective workflow" (guuui.com)

Posted by PJB on May 28, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Prodding at the Limits of User-Centered Design

"Ethnography treats people as if they are in a zoo" (Usability News)

Posted by PJB on May 28, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Commercial Feasibility of a Next-Generation User Interface

"Keep productivity and usability the #1 goal of software design." (Jared White - The Idea Basket)

Posted by PJB on May 28, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Using Wireframes

"A wireframe is a visualization tool for presenting the layout of a web page element inventory." (Strange Systems)

Posted by PJB on May 28, 2002 | Classification: Wireframes | Comments (0) | Permalink

Fifth Advance for Design Summit

Integrating our values, processes, and insights into the business community (July 11-13, 2002 - Las Vegas)

Posted by PJB on May 27, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

How We Define Information Architecture

"(...) a systematic, question-based process for creating communication products that improve users’ performance." (Info.Design)

Posted by PJB on May 27, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Competitive Usability

"How usability will be the key differentiator of tomorrow's internet" (guuui.com)

Posted by PJB on May 27, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Engineering

"(...) a discipline for designing user experiences that match users' expectations." (IBM/Ease-of-Use)

Posted by PJB on May 27, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

A Methodology to Verify and Improve an Existing Large-scale Information Architecture

"The information structure and terminology of a Web site is an essential element of its ease of use" (Jianming Dong - IBM/Ease-of-Use 2002 Papers)

Posted by PJB on May 27, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

In My Experience

"(...) a simple outlet for my (Daniel Kapusta) opinions and thoughts." (about inmyexperience)

Posted by PJB on May 24, 2002 | Classification: Weblogs | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture Makes Design Accountable

"(...) having the lead visual designer with a focus on visual design and branding be responsible for the IA and interaction design of a website is wrong." (Peter van Dijck - poorbuthappy)

Posted by PJB on May 24, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Emergent Interface for the Internet

"(...) to bring all content into a unified visual context for human-to-human communications and interaction." (John Ko - O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2002: Notes & Presentations)

Posted by PJB on May 23, 2002 | Classification: Technology | Comments (0) | Permalink

Beyond Common Sense

A Talk by Jared Spool - April 8, 2002 (The British HCI Group)

Posted by PJB on May 22, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002

"(...) the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces." (ACM SIGART/SIGCHI)

Posted by PJB on May 22, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping

"First, understand your customer and make things easy for them. (...) Secondly, understand the business goals and design your changes to work towards those goals." (Jeff Lash - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 22, 2002 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designing On Both Sides Of Your Brain

"The entire process of idea exploration, evaluation and implementation is reflective." (Scott Berkun - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 21, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

STC's 49th Annual Conference

"This page contains links to materials provided by the conference presenters." (Society for Technical Communication)

Posted by PJB on May 21, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Scenarios Work!

Improving Requirements Engineering with Use Cases and Scenarios (July 10 2002, London UK)

Posted by PJB on May 21, 2002 | Classification: Events | Comments (0) | Permalink

Emotion and Affect

Don Norman on the value of beauty, fun and pleasure in design. (Ubiquity)

Posted by PJB on May 21, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Preview 'Freestyle': New Interface For Extended PC Media Experiences

"Experience video, audio, pictures, and TV through a convenient, flexible user interface that makes it easier than ever to enjoy your digital media." (Microsoft)

Posted by PJB on May 17, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

FacetMap

"A solution so simple that we can take any metadata you've got, and turn it into a browsing system right here on our servers." (FacetMap.com)

Posted by PJB on May 16, 2002 | Classification: Metadata | Comments (0) | Permalink

Screen Language: The New Currency for Learning

"Kids are on to something big, says John Selly Brown (...)" (Martha Lagace - HBS Working Knowledge)

Posted by PJB on May 15, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Satisfaction Key to Viral Marketing

"(...) e-tailers often ignore the fact that they have to keep existing users happy to reap the benefits of new client referrals" (Christopher Saunders - Cyber Atlas)

Posted by PJB on May 14, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Moving from Flatland to Hyperspace: The 'Evolution of a Mindset'

"(...) I tend to think of my days designing for print as living in Flatland." (Meg Cole - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 14, 2002 | Classification: Hypertext | Comments (0) | Permalink

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability

"A company's homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Posted by PJB on May 13, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Promoting IA: Survey Results

"(...) we need better stories to tell." (Louis Rosenfeld - Bloug)

Posted by PJB on May 13, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Strategic Usability: Partnering Business, Engineering and Ease of Use

"The most limited view of usability engineering is often unintentionally promoted by usability engineers themselves." (Scott Berkun - UIWeb.com)

Posted by PJB on May 13, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Relationships: Structural Design Components

"All the fuss over findability from Peter's article and the many insightful comments led me to think about this new concept until I saw this diagram in a dream." (Christina Wodtke - elegant hack)

Posted by PJB on May 13, 2002 | Classification: Information design | Comments (0) | Permalink

Why I'm Not Calling Myself An Information Architect Anymore

"I could probably put it in one simple word - respect." (David Heller - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 08, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture | Comments (0) | Permalink

Users as Designers - Challenge of the Network Age

"(..) stop thinking about products' end-users and start thinking about the system's end-designer." (Ann Light - Usability News)

Posted by PJB on May 08, 2002 | Classification: UCD | Comments (0) | Permalink

Jared Spool, a Man with a Task

"So he is researching how to categorise in such a way that search becomes redundant. Key to this is the labelling of categories." (Ann Light - Usability News)

Posted by PJB on May 07, 2002 | Classification: Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

The CHI/AIGA Experience Design Forum

"(..) we’re at an inflection point, with the potential to play a major role in making businesses successful." (George Olsen - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 07, 2002 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Principles of Educational Multimedia User Interface Design

"The purpose of the principles is to maximize the learning effectiveness of multimedia applications." (Lawrence J. Najjar - Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Posted by PJB on May 06, 2002 | Classification: HCI | Comments (0) | Permalink

Behind the Firewall - Information Architecture and Usability

"Information architecture is the process of designing the access to information so that users can rely mainly on their intuition to navigate quickly and productively around the site." (Martin White - EContent)

Posted by PJB on May 06, 2002 | Classification: Information architecture - Usability | Comments (0) | Permalink

Usability, Collaboration and Organizational Design

"(...) usability specialists are often the first to go in times of downsizing because the fundamental importance of usability is not yet fully understood." (Karin Lindgaard - HOTLab)

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

Interview with Karel Vredenburg of IBM

"There is no way that I would have been able to take what Apple did and move it over to IBM." (Karin Lindgaard - HOTLab)

Posted by PJB on May 03, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

Gratuious Graphics and Human-Centred Website Design

"I'm a fan of art and beauty, of aesthetically pleasing design" (Don Norman)

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

And The Nominees Are ...

"The Webby Awards 2002 Nominees (...) These nominees exemplify the very best that the Internet has to offer." (Webby Awards)

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

Usability for Senior Citizens

"Current websites are twice as hard to use for seniors than for non-seniors." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

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

The Pendulum Returns

Unifying the Online Presence of Decentralized Organizations (Peter Merholz - Adaptive Path)

Posted by PJB on May 01, 2002 | Classification: User experience | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designing Medical Products for Usability

Ergonomics dictate interface between hand and surgical tool. (Kent Ritzel - Medical Equipment Designer)

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

Cross the Learning Desert in a Ferrari

An Interview with David Gray (founder and president of Xplane) (Kelly Sikes - LineZine)

Posted by PJB on May 01, 2002 | Classification: Interviews | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Age of Findability

"Like usability, findability applies broadly across all sorts of physical and virtual environments." (Peter Morville - Boxes and Arrows)

Posted by PJB on May 01, 2002 | Classification: Search | Comments (0) | Permalink