links for 2008-08-19

“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.

“…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.

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.