Links for 2008-08-19

In Links on 19 August 2008 with no comments

• Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: this is not my beautiful house
  "Everyone seems to be an experience manager these days, but we should be proud of what we do. If you’re a UI designer, say you’re a UI designer. Or an interaction designer…" Heathcote rants about the misuse of the term UX. Couldn't agree more.
  (tags: chrisheathcote userexperience UX craft rants manifestos)
• The Amazing Wooden Mirror [pics] | Environmental Graffiti
  "…a tiny camera gathers light and shape data, before sending it to a computer that processes it and uses hundreds of tiny electric motors to shift the wood blocks into the image in front of the device…" Seen this a few times, now finally bookmarking it.
  (tags: via:infovore vision mirrors tangible physical embodied interaction)
• Portrait of the candidate as a pile of words (FFFFOUND!)
  Wordle.net is put to some unlikely use – here the occurrence of words on both Obama and McCain's blog is visualized. "Obama" is the most-used word on McCain's blog, a surprising find for me. Next, I'd like to see these two clouds compared.
  (tags: dataviz infoviz elections words clouds wordle.net news informationgraphics)

Related posts:

1. Chris Heathcote @ Design Engaged 2005
2. Next Generation Tag Clouds