Links for 2006-03-08

In Links on 8 March 2006 with no comments

• User Experience and IA
  Peter Boersma explains why he thinks all IA’s are really UX practitioners and what the next steps for IA’s are.
  (tags: PeterBoersma UX IA informationarchitecture userexperience)
• MySpace: Design Anarchy That Works
  Jesse James Garrett thinks MySpace is such a success because of the complete absence of good visual design.
  (tags: JJG JesseJamesGarrett MySpace design anarchy visualdesign socialsoftware)
• Designing for Interaction // Larry Tesler Interview Excerpt
  Dan Saffer interviews Larry Tesler, one of the grandfathers of interaction design. They talk about consistency, complexity and common mistakes made by novice designers.
  (tags: LarryTesler IxD interactiondesign interview interviews consistency complexity)
• Hiding in Plain Sight: An Interview with Adam Greenfield – Boxes and Arrows
  An interview with Adam Greenfield – author of the upcoming book on “everyware” a.k.a. ubicomp, tangible computing, etc. Thoughtful comments on the sociological impact of the “ubiquitous deployment of informatic systems”.
  (tags: AdamGreenfield interview interviews ubicomp ubiquitouscomputing tangible tangiblecomputing everyware)
• Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Designing Against a Degrading Experience
  “one of our goals for the Office 2007 user interface is that Day 1 looks like Day 101.” — Jensen Harris talks about how the new Office tries to prevent GUI degradation (via Tom).
  (tags: GUI degradation UX userexperience usability Microsoft Office)

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1. UX Designers Should Get Into Everyware
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