links for 2006-03-08

Peter Boers­ma explains why he thinks all IA’s are real­ly UX prac­ti­tion­ers and what the next steps for IA’s are.

Jesse James Gar­rett thinks MySpace is such a suc­cess because of the com­plete absence of good visu­al design.

Dan Saf­fer inter­views Lar­ry Tesler, one of the grand­fa­thers of inter­ac­tion design. They talk about con­sis­ten­cy, com­plex­i­ty and com­mon mis­takes made by novice designers.

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”.

“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).