links for 2007-02-02

Appar­ent­ly an impor­tant arti­cle that clas­si­fies MUD play­ers into four types and then goes on to dis­cuss how a MUD can be tilt­ed to favour one or more of them. Read­i­ly applic­a­ble to oth­er types of mul­ti-user environments.

A site that col­lects sten­cils for the love­ly dia­gram­ming tool Omn­i­Graf­fle. Includes plen­ty of IA and IxD stencils.

Todd War­fel of Mes­sage­first describes his frame­work for wire­fram­ing using Illus­tra­tor and Inde­sign from Adobe. I would­n’t go this route because of the gener­ic nature of the soft­ware but still a good read.

A descrip­tion of how a library web site was grad­u­al­ly redesigned using web 2.0 tools and philosophy.

Anoth­er inter­view with Green­field. An inter­est­ing read because now it’s been a while since he pub­lished Every­ware and the hype has died down a little.

This new PSP game might just have me buy­ing the damn thing togeth­er with Lumines and LocoRoco.

Fierce dis­cus­sion on the nature of IxD fol­low­ing the RCA’s change of course (from Inter­ac­tion Design to Design Interactions).

Crit­i­cism of the lat­est RCA sum­mer show: “The work on show was more con­cerned with the impact of biotech­nol­o­gy on soci­ety than on the craft of design […] there was noth­ing there to actu­al­ly inter­act with.”