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Jane Jacobs and London’s Old Street Area

I’ve been reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities at a leisurely pace since october or so. (A tempo that seems to suit the book fine. Jacobs makes me want to slow down and see.) I came across this passage during a session with the book this weekend and something about a recent [...]

UX Designers Should Get Into Everyware

I’ve been reading Adam Greenfield’s Everyware on and off and one of the things that it has me wondering the most lately is: are UX professionals making the move to design for ubiquitous computing? There’re several places in the book where he explicitly mentions UX in relation to everyware. Let’s have a look at the [...]

A Definition of IA

information architecture, noun A vital component in the development of Web sites, used to round the budget up to the next hundred thousand dollars. The Devil’s Dictionary (2.0)

Tolerance

“You’ve got to tolerate All those people that you hate I’m not in love with you But I won’t hold that against you” – Super Furry Animals, ‘Juxtapozed With U’

Web 2.0 Redux

“Web 2.0 means getting bought by Yahoo.”- Projectionist: A tumblelog

Web 2.0

Web 2.0, proper noun The name given to the social and technical sophistication and maturity that mark the— Oh, screw it. Money! Money money money! Money! The money’s back! Ha ha! Money! – The Devil’s Dictionary (2.0) Technorati: Web 2.0, humor, money

“Simple and open wins” – Dick Hardt, OSCON 2005 Keynote – Identity 2.0