http://www.informationdesign.org/ Dedicated to the growth and improvement of the information experience industries. en-us plato@xs4all.nl 2008-02-14T10:43:52+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 don't understand as well, however, is how to make content win users over to take the actions we want them to take or have the perceptions we want them to have. We don’t understand how to make Web content both usable and persuasive. I, by no means, intend to imply that we should sacrifice the usability of content to make it more persuasive. Truly winning content must be both." (Colleen Jones - UXmatters)]]> Writing 2008-02-14T10:43:52+01:00 Christina Wodtke - Boxes and Arrows)]]> Writing 2006-07-05T22:05:47+01:00 "Public language is a cognition-enhancing tool -- it is a species of external artifact whose current adaptive value is partially constituted by its role in re-shaping the kinds of computational space that our biological brains must negotiate in order to solve certain types of problems, or to carry out certain complex projects. This computational role of language has been somewhat neglected (not un-noticed, but not rigorously pursued either) in recent cognitive science, due perhaps to a (quite proper) fascination with and concentration upon, that other obvious dimension: the role of language as an instrument of interpersonal communication. In this chapter, I try to display the broad shape of the alternative orientation. I discuss the views of some recent (and not-so-recent) authors, who recognize in various ways, the potential role of language and text in transforming, reshaping and simplifying the computational tasks that confront the biological brain. I then pursue this idea through a series of examples involving planning, concept learning, the construction of complex thoughts and the capacity to refelect on our own cognitive profiles." (Andy Clark) Writing 2006-06-25T10:40:27+01:00 Derek Powazek - A List Apart)]]> Writing 2006-05-09T09:18:33+01:00 Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)]]> Writing 2006-04-18T09:01:53+01:00 Caroline Jarrett - Usability News)]]> Writing 2006-02-01T08:44:28+01:00 ACM Ubiquity)]]> Writing 2005-11-01T06:45:18+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2005-08-21T23:39:07+01:00 The Economist) - courtesy of jesse james garrett]]> Writing 2005-07-26T21:54:51+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2005-04-17T06:11:28+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2005-04-05T11:26:57+01:00 Luke Wroblewski - Functioning Form)]]> Writing 2005-02-15T09:27:01+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2005-01-23T22:52:56+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2005-01-16T21:14:33+01:00 Gerry McGovern)]]> Writing 2004-10-31T15:45:57+01:00