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UX Designers: Masters of Everything, Definers of Nothing

As said, promising new initiative focusing on UX.

"I'm a UX Designer, and with a strong understanding and working knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, information design, industrial design, visual interface design, user assistance design, and user-centered design, I'm able to research, design, and prototype new user experiences. While using a holistic multidisciplinary approach, I rapidly iterate on new ideas from concept to completion. Testing and designing not only the physical dimension of digital products, but using a powerful set of learned methods to design and perfect the emotional one."

(Mike Stefanko a.k.a. @EssentialUX ~ Essential UX)
courtesy of richardanderson

Posted on August 17, 2011 | Permalink

Gastronomy: A source of inspiration for user experience design

"Today, I delivered my presentation at the EuroIA 2010 in Paris on the relation between my two passions: gastronomy and user experience design. Gastronomy: A source of inspiration for user experience design. "A crazy topic with a scary video clip of a positive eating experience", I said in my impersonation as Lars Von Trier!" (Composing Cook ~ FoodUX)

Posted on September 26, 2010 | Permalink

Favorite UX & Technology Blogs

"When I presented this question to the Ask UXmatters panel of experts, I had expected to have much overlap among their responses. However, as you can see, our experts’ favorites include a great variety of blogs and other news sources." (UXmatters)

Posted on June 21, 2010 | Permalink

UX Groundswell

"Because I never stop thinking about wicked design problems or obsessing about user experiences, I decided to share my ideas here." (K. Bella Martin)

Posted on April 22, 2010 | Permalink

Touch Usability: News and research on touch interface usability

"This blog is a personal project and the opinions here are strictly my own." (Kevin Arthur)

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Permalink

52 Weeks of UX

"This is the first rule of UX. Everything a designer does affects the user experience. From the purposeful addition of a design element to the negligent omission of crucial messaging, every decision is molding the future of the people we design for." (Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer)

Posted on January 08, 2010 | Permalink

User Interface Trends

"Comment on and rate trends in user interface design for websites and web applications." (About UI Trends) - courtesy of usabilitynews

Posted on August 24, 2009 | Permalink

Passion at work: Blogging practices of knowledge workers

"From the beginning of my PhD research, I was interested in explaining the complexities of knowledge work that could not be simplified to 'creating, sharing and applying knowledge', and in exploring interplays between an organisational authority and personal passions at one's workplace." (Lilia Efimova - Mathemagenic)

Posted on June 18, 2009 | Permalink

Navigating the blogosphere: Towards a genre-based typology of weblogs

"The personal weblog is a continuously evolving genre of online communication in which bloggers and readers create diverse social spaces for conversation and self–expression. This article addresses a conceptual gap in the literature, namely how to distinguish the personal weblog from other types of weblogs. The author develops a typological framework for classification of weblogs in three dimensions: content, directionality, and style, and uses the typological space to propose a working definition of the personal weblog and discuss it as a distinct sub–genre." - (Stine Lomborg - FirstMonday 14.5)

Posted on April 30, 2009 | Permalink

Scatter/Gather

"(...) a blog about the intersection of content strategy, pop culture and human behavior. Contributors are all practicing Content Strategists at the offices of Razorfish, an international digital design agency." - (About Content Strategy)

Posted on April 02, 2009 | Permalink

Conceptology

"The Web is evolving. From an emerging but static, passive library of information to a sharing, talking, recommending, networking, creating, customized, personalized community with a long tail to a more relevant, measurable, helpful, fun, trustworthy, mobile and social place. The industry needs people that are multi-skilled and versed in strategy, creative and technology." (Karri Ojanen)

Posted on November 21, 2008 | Permalink

DD4D: Data Designed for Decisions

"Data tells the stories of our lives and societies, but it needs intermediaries to find it, to visualise it, to communicate it, to help understand it and act on it. In a joint conference the International Institute for Information Design and the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development take up the subject from their respective positions, exploring how people interact with (statistical) data. How can data help people understand, and how does understanding help people to take action?" (International Institute for Information Design)

Posted on November 12, 2008 | Permalink

Johnny Holland Magazine

"(...) all about sharing, learning and talking about interaction and creativity." (Jeroen van Geel)

Posted on October 29, 2008 | Permalink

inspireUX

"(...) a blog that posts quotes relating to user experience (UX). Every quote on inspireUX focuses on the impact that user experience has on people, business, or the world." (Catriona Cornett - About inspireUX)

Posted on April 21, 2008 | Permalink

The CMS Myth

"Many organizations now rushing to adopt web content management systems (CMS) to support their online strategies think it's the silver bullet to solve their website challenges and power content-rich applications. But web developers, online marketers and other front-line web pros speak of a fundamental disconnect in the promise of CMS vs. reality. Industry research and harsh anecdotal evidence indicate that 50% or more CMS projects 'fail' in some way: botched implementations, soaring project costs, launch delays, ruined SEO and more. Therein lays the central tenet of The CMS Myth: When it comes to web content management success, it's not just about the technology. In reality, CMS success hinges on your plan, your people, and your process behind your web content management initiative." (About The CMS Myth)

Posted on January 24, 2008 | Permalink

Needles and Plastic

Thoughts and musings about information design - "This is a multi-authored blog devoted to the subject of information design." (Bruce Russell and Greg Comfort)

Posted on December 13, 2007 | Permalink

Blogging Practices: An Analytical Framework

"This article proposes a general model to analyze and compare different uses of the blog format. Based on ideas from sociological structuration theory, as well as on existing blog research, it argues that individual usage episodes are framed by three structural dimensions of rules, relations, and code, which in turn are constantly (re)produced in social action. As a result, 'communities of blogging practices' emerge—that is, groups of people who share certain routines and expectations about the use of blogs as a tool for information, identity, and relationship management. This analytical framework can be the basis for systematic comparative and longitudinal studies that will further understanding of similarities and differences in blogging practices." (Jan Schmidt - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12.4)

Posted on October 31, 2007 | Permalink

What if Jakob Nielsen had a blog?

"Some have criticised Jakob Nielsen for having an ugly site and people have wondered if useit.com would benefit from a design makeover. Well I have got tired of waiting for Jakob to start a blog version of useit.com so I decided to build it myself." (Chris McEvoy) - Appears to be a little outdated though, but still interesting enough to be mentioned.

Posted on June 06, 2007 | Permalink

A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium

"While blogging is piquing the interest of mainstream media, youth, academic researchers, and entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, only a fraction of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know what the term means. (...)" (Danah Boyd - Reconstruction 6.4)

Posted on May 16, 2007 | Permalink

Speedbird: Clean living under difficult circumstances

"To me the Speedbird symbolizes many things: the lost glamour of travel, the high Modernist moment in design and architecture, and above all, a time when Western culture still believed in a future." (Adam Greenfield - About Speedbird)

Posted on May 16, 2007 | Permalink

SpiekerBlog 2.0

"All new in 2007, except the old materials in the archives. Those will eventuelly either be refreshed or delted. New stuff will be added whenever called for. The German text will no longer interfere with the process of reading English. It now has its own site." (Erik Spiekermann)

Posted on January 21, 2007 | Permalink

Weblog-mediated relationship: A co-constructed narrative

Draft chapter - "Although weblogs are perceived as low-threshold tools to publish on-line, empowering individual expression in public, there is growing evidence of social structures evolving around weblogs and their influence on norms and practices of blogging. This evidence ranges from voices of bloggers themselves speaking about the social effects of blogging, to studies on specific weblog communities with distinct cultures (e.g. knitting community described by Wei, 2004, or Goth community described by Hodkinson, 2004), to mathematical analysis of links between weblogs indicating that community formation in the blogosphere is not a random process, but an indication of shared interests binding bloggers together (Kumar, Novak, Raghaven & Tomkins, 2003)." (Lilia Efimova & Andrea Ben Lassoued - Mathemagenic)

Posted on November 01, 2006 | Permalink

No Ideas But In Things

"No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers." (Dan Saffer) - courtesy of elearningpost

Posted on October 24, 2006 | Permalink

PICNIC '06 Cross Media Week Weblog

"The Cross Media Week Foundation is mandated to bring top creative professionals from around the world together in Amsterdam to create new partnerships and opportunities, as well as to establish international networks. The Foundation supports the City of Amsterdam's TopStad programme which aims to establish Amsterdam as one of Europe’s most creative cities. PICNIC '06 Cross Media Week is the Foundation's first major initiative." (PICNIC '06)

Posted on September 27, 2006 | Permalink

Blogs and Community: Launching a new paradigm for online community?

"Online community has been an important part of the Internet, mainly forming around email lists, bulletin boards and forums. In recent years, the ascendancy of blogs has introduced a new platform for communities. This article looks at some of the emerging patterns of blog based communities and raises some questions for their strategic application." (Nancy White - The Knowledge Tree) - courtesy of mathemagenic

Posted on September 18, 2006 | Permalink

FatDUX Blog

"FatDUX people are business professionals who understand the power of new media. We have a simple goal - to create Internet-based websites and applications that rise above the glorified business cards that populate much of today's web. We share our skills, experience, and vision with clients who are looking for innovative communications solutions that grow their business." (About FatDUX) - congrats eric

Posted on September 07, 2006 | Permalink

IDEA 2006 blog

"Over the next few months leading to the conference, and probably for a little while afterward, this blog will be the main source of news and information about the forthcoming IDEA conference. There will be links to concepts related to the conference, interviews with conference presenters, and who knows what else." (IDEA 2006 Conference: Seattle Public Library - Oct. 23-24, 2006) - courtesy of peterme

Posted on August 10, 2006 | Permalink

Information Design Watch

"The weblog of Dynamic Diagrams, Consultants in Visual Logic." (Dynamic Diagrams)

Posted on July 19, 2006 | Permalink

Ambidextrous Blog

A blog accompanying the magazine - "Ambidextrous is a forum for the cross-disciplinary, cross-market community of people with an academic, professional and personal interest in design. The magazine is geared toward high subscriber participation and interaction. It is expressly designed to be informal, irreverent, and fun to read." (Ambidextrous)

Posted on June 30, 2006 | Permalink

How values get embedded in technology

The vloggercon keynote by information architect and user experience consultant Peter Van Dijck - "The technology and the culture of videoblogging co-evolve. So the practices and believes that you have are shaped in part by the technology that's available to you, and the technology that's being created like crazy these days is shaped by the practices and believes you hold." (Peter Van Dijck - poorbuthappy)

Posted on June 19, 2006 | Permalink

NussbaumOnDesign: Inside the business of innovation and design

A weblog from Bruce Nussbaum - editor of Business Week. It's what business people read on Design. (Business Week Online Innovation)

Posted on June 05, 2006 | Permalink

3rd International Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem Papers

"The weblogging community continues to evolve: weblogs are gaining more and more exposure, the number of bloggers continues to grow and the contribution of individual bloggers is becoming significant and compelling. The dynamics of the blogosphere, found in trackbacks, citation links, blog-rolls, comments, tags, shared topics and interests provides a facinating domain of study for researchers from all academic and commercial fields including text mining, social network analysis, computational linguistics, business and marketing intelligence, libarary sciences, taxonometrics, graph theory and data visualization." (WWE 2006 Blog)

Posted on May 25, 2006 | Permalink

Adaptive Path Weblog

"It's taken a little over five years, but today we officially launched the Adaptive Path weblog. Enjoy!" (Adaptive Path) - congrats!

Posted on May 16, 2006 | Permalink

Top 10 Sources for Blogging Librarians

"Librarians are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.” — Michael Moore (Top Ten Sources)

Posted on May 11, 2006 | Permalink

State of the Blogosphere: On Language and Tagging

"Tagging, the act of categorizing posts with simple words or phrases, continues to grow, and the number of posts with tags or categories has grown past the 100 Million mark since Technorati began tracking tags in January of 2005." (David Sifry)

Posted on May 08, 2006 | Permalink

Common Visual Design Elements of Weblogs

"In this study, we apply content-analytic methods to a random sample of weblogs as a means of exploring current visual trends within the blogosphere. Detailed coding for the presence of common structural, visual features allows correlation of those trends with the demographics of content producers." (Lois Ann Scheidt and Elijah Wright - Into the Blogosphere)

Posted on May 05, 2006 | Permalink

UXD: User eXperience Design

A weblog from Pathfinder: "(...) a hybrid shop, expert in both User Experience Design and Applications Development." (About UXD)

Posted on April 28, 2006 | Permalink

The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger

"An expert who blogs is more interesting than a blogger who experts." (Guy Kawasaki - Signum sine tinnitu)

Posted on April 19, 2006 | Permalink

Mathemagenic

"Mathemagenic means 'giving birth to learning'. I use this site as my learning diary, so I think this name fits well. So far, this web-site includes only my blog, a reverse-order posting of insights, commentaries, links and a few longer stories. Later it may grow into bigger web-site, but I'm not in a hurry for that. Learning starts small. As a researcher I'm curious to see how blogs could be used for learning and knowledge sharing. So, my blog is an experiment as well. Most of my learning is around learning, e-learning and knowledge management (and weblogs of course)." (Lilia Efimova)

Posted on April 14, 2006 | Permalink

BLOG CHI Live!

"We're looking for bloggers who will be coming to CHI to, well, blog CHI. We're interested in seeing if adding this virtual layer to the physical presence of CHI will help make CHI a better experience for the community - especially since CHI is a broader conference beast this year, including many new community areas." (CHI2006: Interact.Inform.Inspire)

Posted on April 10, 2006 | Permalink

The Workplace Blog

"The Workplace Blog is written by Shiv Singh, Ray Velez and the Enterprise Solutions Team at Avenue A | Razorfish. The blog covers news, trends, commentary, events and emerging technologies that are affecting the enterprise workplace. It also provides a unique perspective on what's happening in the enterprise market and how companies are retooling their intranets, extranets, portals and web applications to meet the needs of their business. The blog reflects the views of the individual authors and not necessarily the views of the company." (Avenue A | Razorfish ES) - Keep up the good work!

Posted on April 03, 2006 | Permalink

IA Summit 2006 Blog

"Everyone who attends the 2006 IA Summit can write for the weblog", so everyone who cannot attend the 2006 IA Summit can read it. (ASIS&T IA Summit 2006)

Posted on March 24, 2006 | Permalink

Library Clips

"This blog is a space for me to share some ideas, thoughts, and feedback from a librarian’s point of view. (...) Like most people I'm interested in blogs, rss, social bookmarks, wiki's, etc. so I'll use this site to ask questions and discuss ideas about these topics and wishlist features." (John Tropea)

Posted on March 14, 2006 | Permalink

And The Winners Are...

Sixth Annual Weblog Awards - "It's now the sixth year of the world's most established weblog awards, the Bloggies. Personal Web publishing never stops growing, and that means this year the public will have more contenders than ever to select from when choosing the year's best weblogs. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 have their champions; now it's time for you to do your part for 2006." - congrats to all.

Posted on March 13, 2006 | Permalink

InfoMatters

"This is the blog of Andrew Dillon, dean of the iSchool at UT. This is a series of occasional thoughts and comments about education and research in the broad information studies arena." (Andrew Dillon)

Posted on March 05, 2006 | Permalink

TEDBlog: Ideas That Matter in Technology, Entertainment & Design

"I'm fed up with talking about making change: it's time to do it, says Cameron Sinclair." (TED.com)

Posted on February 24, 2006 | Permalink

State of the Blogosphere: Beyond Search

"I'm going to cover the growth of the blogosphere as media, and discuss some of the emerging trends that deal with handling information overload. In a world of over 50,000 postings per hour, and over 70,000 new weblogs created each day, keeping on top of and in tune with the most interesting and influential people and topics is the new frontier beyond search. I've also got some surprises for you at the end of this post, two new features that I hope you'll find useful." (Sifry's Alerts)

Posted on February 17, 2006 | Permalink

The Art of Creating a Community

"(...) it's hard to build a community around crappy, mundane, and mediocre crap no matter how hard you try." (Guy Kawasaki) - courtesy of creatingpassionateusers

Posted on February 15, 2006 | Permalink

Blogging and the Future for (the?) Media

"Blogging is forcing a radical sea-change in the print media realm, and will likely do the same within the TV and radio realm as podcasting becomes more established." (Kurt Cagle - Understanding XML)

Posted on February 10, 2006 | Permalink

David Sless’s soap box

"I have a long list of things that I think may interest you, my reader. But there is no way of choosing - not without a conversation - and this is not a conversation. As the title suggests, it’s a soap box. So I shall go where my gut and keyboard takes me. You are of course free to heckle." (David Sless - CRIA)

Posted on February 06, 2006 | Permalink

LIFT06 Blog

Audio/Video Presentations included - "About teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. Attendees will face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking -- ideas to inject into their own part of the planet. LIFT has a simple goal: connect people who are passionate about new applications of technology and propel their conversations into the broader world to improve life and work." (LIFT06)

Posted on February 02, 2006 | Permalink

Wildly Appropriate

Dan Klyn's blog on information architecture and such - "(...) I'm feeling the need to use a work-centered blog as the hub for the professional work I'm doing and as a tool to communicate within a more IA-centric space." (Dan Klyn)

Posted on January 29, 2006 | Permalink

Sixth Annual Weblog Awards: Finalists

"It's now the sixth year of the world's most established weblog awards, the Bloggies. Personal Web publishing never stops growing, and that means this year the public will have more contenders than ever to select from when choosing the year's best weblogs. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 have their champions; now it's time for you to do your part for 2006."

Posted on January 24, 2006 | Permalink

suggestusability

"Share, Suggest and showcase the usability Ideas and your views of the product displayed in this blog. Lots of experts are expected to view this blog and suggest the usability ideas instantaneously with their experience. Most often product will be showcased and share your thoughts and suggestion of user experience with the product." (Rajesh Anandakrishnan)

Posted on January 22, 2006 | Permalink

From Sites to Flows: Designing for the Porous Web 

Presentation in .pdf - "Underskog: A work in progress." (Even Westvang) - courtesy of vuk

Posted on January 18, 2006 | Permalink

chartjunk: the madness ends here

"Comments are welcome - including further redrawings if you think you have a better idea how to portray this data. Stay safe, and don't believe anything you see in the paper." (Viveka Weiley - Karmanaut)

Posted on December 18, 2005 | Permalink

Corporate blogging and the future of corporate communications

Presentation from the Bloggforum 3 (November 19, 2005 Stockholm) - "A blog is a network of links (...) Forget your castle; Forget your sales pitch; Show yourself how you really are; Forget Powerpoint; Enter the conversation." (Loïc Le Meur - Six Apart) - courtesy of theotherblog

Posted on November 27, 2005 | Permalink

Digital Future: Blogs and Knowledge

Addressing the US Library of Congress - "... provocative, entertaining and truely delightful." (David Weinberger) - courtesy of euansemple

Posted on October 16, 2005 | Permalink

EuroIA Blog

"Join the conversation." - Platform for sharing knowledge, ideas, experiences and contacts during the ASIS&T 2005 Euro IA Summit in Brussels: Oct. 15-16, 2005. (EuroIA 2005)

Posted on October 13, 2005 | Permalink

Putting people first

"Daily insights in the burgeoning field of experience design, user experience and innovation." (Mark Vanderbeeken)

Posted on October 06, 2005 | Permalink

bplusd

"Jess McMullin's blog on the intersection of business and design." (Jess McMullin) - courtesy of keith instone

Posted on September 26, 2005 | Permalink

The Designing for User eXperience (DUX) 2005 blog

"We shall use this blog to keep you abreast of developments over the final weeks leading up to the 3-5 November conference." (DUX2005)

Posted on September 26, 2005 | Permalink

Blogs: A Global Conversation

A Master Thesis on the Social Phenomenon of Blogs - "I carried out quantitative research by twice sending out a survey via email to 750 Bloggers who are ranked by Technorati. A total 174 Bloggers filled out the survey. Whether you work in advertising, public relations, marketing, are thinking of using Blogs for a business, want to use Blogs to try and create revenue or want to get an understanding of what is going on in the world of Blogs, the paper may be of interest to you." (James Torio)

Posted on September 19, 2005 | Permalink

Google Blog Search

"Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves." (Google)

Posted on September 14, 2005 | Permalink

Presentation Zen

"Garr Reynolds' blog on issues related to professional presentation design." (Garr Reynolds)

Posted on September 14, 2005 | Permalink

Designing for the Sandbox

"This is a weblog dealing with Web 2.0, and issues of openness, control, trust, authencity, and whatever else deemed relevant. The 'sandbox' is a metaphor for this space where information, people, and tools interact in this spirit of openness and freedom." (Peter Merholz)

Posted on September 08, 2005 | Permalink

Keith Instone's Weblog

"This is my new site. It will slowly include these other sites of mine (...). If you are looking for something specific, chances are it is still at one of those other sites." (Keith Instone)

Posted on August 08, 2005 | Permalink

Social Machines

"The underlying hardware and software will never become invisible, but they will become less obtrusive, allowing us to focus our attention on the actual information being conveyed. Eventually, living in a world of continuous computing will be like wearing eyeglasses: the rims are always visible, but the wearer forgets she has them on—even though they’re the only things making the world clear." (Wade Roush - Continuous Computing)

Posted on July 17, 2005 | Permalink

A New Adventure

"(...) I'm going to experiment with something completely new in the next few days: Podcasting. Stay tuned." (Dirk Knemeyer)

Posted on June 01, 2005 | Permalink

Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?

"Blogs and wikis are flexible practices and technologies that are increasingly being used within companies and organizations to ease the creation and dissemination of information, as well as making it easier for companies to communicate effectively with customers, partners, and the public. This article discusses some of the salient features of blogs and wikis, and give examples of companies who already have implemented one or more of these systems." (Lauren Wood - Gilbane Report)

Posted on May 29, 2005 | Permalink

Enterprise Weblogging: Using weblogs for communication & information management

"This was a presentation on enterprise weblogging given at the American Society for Information Science & Technology, New Jersey Chapter, May 20, 2005." (Michael Angeles - urlgreyhot)

Posted on May 22, 2005 | Permalink

Blogpoly

"It is just a name. It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities -- the water works and the electric company. (...) There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols." - (littleoslo) courtesy of thomas garrood

Posted on May 13, 2005 | Permalink

Thinking and Making

"Information architecture, user experience design, and the new architecture of business." (Austin Govella)

Posted on May 13, 2005 | Permalink

Up Against Reality: Blogging and the cost of content

"Blogging offers the enticing prospect of a new journalism which is more participatory, more responsive and essentially open to anyone who has something to say. Yet, the process of creating blogs that are rich with quality journalism is also a commercial challenge; one that will re-shape the blogosphere as we move out of an initial period of amateur enthusiasm to create a more mature and sustainable medium." (Trevor Cook) - courtesy of mark bernstein

Posted on May 04, 2005 | Permalink

You're It! Tagsonomy: A Blog on Tagging

"The advantage of folksonomies isn't that they’re better than controlled vocabularies, it's that they're better than nothing, because controlled vocabularies are not extensible to the majority of cases where tagging is needed." (Clay Shirky et al.)

Posted on May 03, 2005 | Permalink

Les Blogs 2005

Coverage of the Les Blogs 2005 Event (LoicLeMeur Wiki - Socialtext) - courtesy of mark bernstein

Posted on April 26, 2005 | Permalink

The Future of Blogging

"The 'danger' is that corporations might not 'understand the culture of blogging' and produce content that contains carefully vetted material instead of spontaneous writings that appeal to blog fans." (CNet News)

Posted on April 13, 2005 | Permalink

Community Blogging

"Basically I have four sections. I'll talk a wee bit about what constitutes a community. I'm going to rant and rave against the concept of the long tail. I'm going to explore Wittgensteinian theories of meaning. I'm going to talk about distributed network semantics. Now this may sound like it has nothing to do with community, but my intent here is to try to reframe your thoughts on what community is, what community on the web is, and what a community of bloggers is." (Stephen Downes) - courtesy of petervandijck

Posted on March 28, 2005 | Permalink

The Bloggies 2005: And the winners are...

"The Bloggies are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony (...)"

Posted on March 17, 2005 | Permalink

IA Summit 2005 Blog

Weblog of the ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit 2005: Crossing Borders (IA Summit 2005)

Posted on March 09, 2005 | Permalink

Information Aesthetics

"Form follows data - Artistic ambient information visualization design weblog." (Andrew Vande Moere)

Posted on March 08, 2005 | Permalink

Blogs vs. Mags

"(...) lead times, especially for the bi-monthly and monthly design magazines, can actually be as long as four to six months before a story sees print, and by then it is likely an original idea will have turned stale. Conversely, blogs are instant transmitters of thought and, more importantly, forums for instantaneous response." (Steven Heller - AIGA Voice) - courtesy of xblog

Posted on February 14, 2005 | Permalink

UXCentric

"UX for user experience. Centric for at the center. UXCentric is for those passionate about - and consumed by - improving people's experiences on the Web." (Dave Rogers)

Posted on February 06, 2005 | Permalink

Total Experience

"(...) a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers. An information service that delivers targeted news coverage of multiple verticals via its website and email newsletters, Corante is also helping to pioneer the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary." (Corante)

Posted on February 01, 2005 | Permalink

Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

"Bloggies are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony, with previous winners listed on their respective sites: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Everyone's invited to take part in the awarding process, so read below to find out how you can nominate and vote for your favorite blogs!"

Posted on January 24, 2005 | Permalink

uigarden

"(...) a bilingual online magazine that provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners who work in the user interface design (including user experience, information architecture, GUI, and usability) field in the Chinese and the English speaking worlds to publish their thinking and exchange views with each other." (Site Mission) - courtesy of webword

Posted on January 13, 2005 | Permalink

knemeyer.com: where dk goes to explore, share, and play

"To some degree, this website is an experiment, an attempt to synthesize a large promotional site with an active, ongoing personal journal. More than articles and tidbits, my intention is for each the professional and personal sections to be uniquely deep and rich. To provide as much insight and interest to your heart as to your head." (Dirk Knemeyer)

Posted on January 13, 2005 | Permalink

Why There's No Escaping the Blog

"Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product - or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore." (David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth - Fortune)

Posted on January 05, 2005 | Permalink

The Future of Independent Media

"(...) our assessment of the coming opportunities and challenges, as we see them, for the field of independent media, and, by extension, for any organization or individual that will be affected by the new media landscape - which is to say, all of us." (Andrew Blau - Global Business Network)

Posted on December 29, 2004 | Permalink

Maeda's SIMPLICITY Blog

"SIMPLICITY is an experimental research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, focused on developing technologies for design - designs that are simpler to understand, easier to use, and, ultimately, more enjoyable." (John Maeda - Simplicity) - courtesy of victor lombardi

Posted on December 20, 2004 | Permalink

Pulling sense out of today's informational chaos

"The informational overload currently facing Western society is changing the way we understand the world as well as rendering obsolete our current ways of managing information and creating knowledge. With these changes in mind, I will examine the blogging service LiveJournal as a new and more applicable way of managing information and creating knowledge in today’s society." (Kate Raynes–Goldie - First Monday December 2004)

Posted on December 12, 2004 | Permalink

IDC: Information Design Connections

"(...) technology is for human beings and any technical solution that does not take human needs and desires into account is bound to fail." (Colleen Taugher - Center to Bridge the Digital Divide)

Posted on November 04, 2004 | Permalink

[BEEP]

"I am Peter Boersma, male, 34, living in an apartment from 1670 in the centre of Amsterdam. I studied computer science and ergonomics, and have been working in the field since 1995." - Welcome to the blogosphere! (Peter Boersma)

Posted on October 28, 2004 | Permalink

Assemble Me

An Information Science and Visualization Blog. (Julis Schorzman)

Posted on August 27, 2004 | Permalink

Blogs and blogging: advantages and disadvantages

"Isn't it interesting that some of the most significant 'revolutions' of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? How retro is that? First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend whereby the world is becoming more formal in how it communicates. Instead of body language and endless conversations, communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen." (Gerry McGovern)

Posted on August 22, 2004 | Permalink

The World Wide Blog

"Joichi Ito, founder of Neoteny and other Internet companies, finds that cyberspace is embracing it roots — collaboration, community, and personal communications — with bloggers leading the way." (ACM Ubiquity)

Posted on August 17, 2004 | Permalink

Planet HCI: Computers Serve Users

"Planet HCI is a web aggregator of feeds from HCI-related blogs, i.e., of those who care about how computers can serve users better." (About HCI)

Posted on August 07, 2004 | Permalink

We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People

"Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover. In 'We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People', nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news." (O'Reilly)

Posted on August 04, 2004 | Permalink

nundroo: rich and shameless

"Follow your passion with dedication and talent and money will follow." (Didier Hilhorst) - congrats!

Posted on July 19, 2004 | Permalink

Gurus v. Boggers: Round 2

"Playing for the Gurus this time around? We have Brenda Laurel, John Maeda, Christina Wodtke, Jesse James Garrett, Eric Meyer, and Nathan Shedroff. (...) For the Bloggers? We have Angie McKaig, Ben Fry, Veerle Pieters, Bob Baxley, Dave Shea, Shaun Inman, and Luke Wroblewski. Plus, I have a surprise twist of events that rivals the season finale shocker on Survivor that gave Rupert an extra cool million. You'll just have to read on to find out what happens." (Andrei Herasimchuk - Design by Fire)

Posted on June 03, 2004 | Permalink

The Transformation of an Industry

"We started out as a Web publication focused strictly on the front-end design aspects of Web sites. Over the years that focus has shifted, not because our readership had changed, but because the Web had changed. Building Web sites was no longer just about presentation and cool GUIs, it was about good usability, solid architecture, convenient accessibility and compliant code, as well as transparent design." - congrats to Nick and the team with the new transformation. (Nick Finck, Paul Scrivens & D. Keith Robinson - Digital Web Magazine)

Posted on May 14, 2004 | Permalink

Russell Reflects: How the Web is Changing

"But I think a sea-change is on the horizon - readers are becoming more powerful, and more importantly, integrated into websites, and screen scraping is becoming more advanced." (Usability News)

Posted on April 23, 2004 | Permalink

Gurus v. Boggers Design Shoutout

"Playing for the Gurus: Richard Saul Wurman, Bruce Tognazzi, Peter Merholz, Jakob Nielsen, Edward Tufte, Gerry McGovern, Donald Norman, and Andrei Herasimchuk. (...) Playing for the Bloggers: Jeffery Zeldman, D. Keith Robinson, Andy Budd, Didier Hilhorst, John Gruber, Greg Storey, John Hicks, and Josh Williams. (...) The Bloggers win in a shut-out, 8 to 0. A total Guru smackdown. Completely knocked out of the ring." (Andrei Herasimchuk - Design by Fire)

Posted on April 13, 2004 | Permalink

spiekerblog

The weblog of information designer and information architect Erik Spiekermann - courtesy of jason kottke

Posted on March 31, 2004 | Permalink

Fourth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2004 Bloggies

"The Weblog Awards ceremony was held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival for the second time in Austin, Texas, USA on Monday, March 15, 2004 at 12:30 PM. Webloggers including previous winners and prize donators presented the certificates and prizes to those present." (Fairvue)

Posted on March 16, 2004 | Permalink

SXSW: Web Awards

"During the awards, I sat at the same table as Kevin and Tom from OK/Cancel, a great web site for geeks. I scored two of their trading cards featuring two of my design heroes, Don Norman and Edward Tufte, as superheroes with special powers." (Terrie Miller - O'Reilly Developer Weblogs)

Posted on March 16, 2004 | Permalink

Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap

"Presentation at the Computers in Libraries conference." (Michael Angeles)

Posted on March 10, 2004 | Permalink

Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'

"Blogs can be incorporated into any type of class for all reading- and writing-aged students. They can be used as a knowledge-management tool where teachers and students communicate with each other through the course of the semester, or as a tool to bring reflections or outside material into the class for everyone's benefit. Following are a number of practical suggestions that provide a good environment for successful blog integration." (R.E. Ferdig et al. - T.H.E. Journal Online) - courtesy of dave winer

Posted on February 16, 2004 | Permalink

Mobile Community Design

Research and design information for mobile community developers - "It is a frequently updated source of research and design information concerning mobile communities." (Jeff Axup)

Posted on January 13, 2004 | Permalink

Design by Fire

"Welcome to the personal web site of Andrei Herasimchuk and Donna Driscoll, dedicated to their interface design work and various other personal interests." (Andrei Herasimchuk & Donna Driscoll) - courtesy of dirk knemeyer

Posted on January 07, 2004 | Permalink

IA Summit Blog

"Adam and I have set this up so y'all can blog the IA Summit." (Joshua Ellis)

Posted on March 20, 2003 | Permalink

BookBlog

"The Writing of a Book on Information Architecture" (Peter VanDijck)

Posted on March 20, 2003 | Permalink

LOGos: The Weblog of Oskar van Rijswijk

"What you read is powered by just me, a bundle of Open Source software, a connection to the Internet, some well placed mirrors and many cups of espresso." (Oskar van Rijswijk)

Posted on March 03, 2003 | Permalink

IDblog: an information design blog

"IDblog is Beth Mazur tilting at power law windmills. A little bit Internet, a little bit technology, a little bit society, and a lot about designing useful information products." (Beth Mazur)

Posted on January 03, 2003 | Permalink

iknovate

"Balancing the kinetic energy between people, process, and technology requires a cognitive ability to step 'inside' the box and not be blinded by the walls. It requires the ability to iknovate." (Paula Thornton)

Posted on January 01, 2003 | Permalink

IDblog

... an information design weblog (Beth Mazur)

Posted on September 02, 2002 | Permalink

In My Experience

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

Posted on May 24, 2002 | Permalink

The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break

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

Posted on April 11, 2002 | Permalink

BLOUG

"Life after Argus" (Louis Rosenfeld's weblog)

Posted on June 18, 2001 | Permalink

Thoughts on User Experience

"(...) a blog on user experience design, as well as some longer essays and book reviews on the field" (George Olsen - Interaction by Design)

Posted on June 10, 2001 | Permalink

IDblog: The Weblog of the STC Information Design SIG

"(...) the IDblog will become a worthy counterpart to other valuable ID resources" (Beth Mazur - STC Information Design SIG)

Posted on May 29, 2001 | Permalink

IASlash.Org

"News for Information Architecture" (Studio ID)

Posted on April 16, 2001 | Permalink

CHIBLOG 2001

The Unofficial CHI Conference Weblog (Compagnion to CHI 2001)

Posted on April 03, 2001 | Permalink

DesignWritings

"Discussion, thoughts and obervations about Graphic Design, Information Architecture and Design History." (Erin K. Malone)

Posted on March 03, 2001 | Permalink

IA/Usability

"(...) promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences" (evolt.org)

Posted on January 14, 2001 | Permalink

UXblog

"User Experience in the Context of Emerging Technology and Advanced Business Strategy" (HannaHodge User Experience Architects)

Posted on December 08, 2000 | Permalink

Jakob Nielsen's Spotlight

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

Posted on August 14, 2000 | 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 on August 10, 2000 | Permalink

Information Design/Architecture xblog

(XPLANE.COM: The Visual Thinking Company)

Posted on May 09, 2000 | Permalink