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Peter Boersma explains why he thinks all IA’s are really UX practitioners and what the next steps for IA’s are.
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Jesse James Garrett thinks MySpace is such a success because of the complete absence of good visual design.
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Dan Saffer interviews Larry Tesler, one of the grandfathers of interaction design. They talk about consistency, complexity and common mistakes made by novice designers.
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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”.
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“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).
Author: Kars Alfrink
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.
Gravatars are go!
links for 2006-03-07
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A look behind the scene of Ma.gnolia’s visual design. Impressive to learn that the whole site’s visual design was done in three weeks.
links for 2006-03-03
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Wish I could be at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference to see Matt and Ben present playsh, the Playful Shell. Both of them are excellent speakers.
links for 2006-03-02
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Results from research into where users expect standard web page elements to be located. Nothing surprising, but still interesting. Via Peter.
Ondergrond.org – HKU-studenten aan de folksonomy
Via commentaar op een recent artikel op open.info.nl kwam ik op de site Ondergrond – een folksonomy voor / van street art. De site is een EMMA-afstudeerproject van een aantal HKU-studenten. De site daagt bezoekers met behulp van stellingen en vragen uit om bij foto’s van graffiti en stickers tags achter te laten. Een interessante manier om het dilemma “waarom zou een bezoeker taggen” te tackelen – het principe doet me in die zin denken aan Hot or Not. Het plezier zit hem in foto na foto hersenloos te voorzien van metadata. Het risico is natuurlijk dat hiermee het ontstaan van “metacrap” alleen maar in de hand wordt gewerkt! Aan de andere kant zijn de vragen soms wel wat moeilijk, dan moet je goed nadenken, en is het effect van de laagdrempeligheid weg.
Ik weet niet of Maarten en Sjors Interaction Design hebben gestudeerd, maar op dat vlak verdient de site wel nog wat aandacht. Het is flink zoeken geblazen in het ondergrondse, de navigatie is eigenlijk bijna niet aanwezig. Misschien dat dit niet de focus heeft in hun project, maar het zou toch mooi zijn als het de tagger makkelijk wordt gemaakt zijn weg te vinden naar interessante content!
links for 2006-03-01
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Danah Boyd talks about the social function of MySpace amongst teenagers. Interesting look at social software that isn’t used by 20-somethings.
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Matthew Haughey says he doesn’t get MySpace. Why do kids love the sleek design of the iPod and at the same time enjoy the “gaudy oversaturated flashing/pulsating monstrosity” that is MySpace? My guess: it isn’t about look & feel, it’s about being social.
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Oh dear, another lovely book from Mr. Tufte, coming this way. This time it’s about “how seeing turns into showing”.
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Right after Shadow of the Colossus, a new game arrives for the PS2 that sounds to good to let pass. Katamari gets a European release and finally allows us to enjoy its ball rolling weirdness.
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Beattie thinks the most important thing to think about when creating web 2.0 services is “Have an obvious way to take customer’s money.”
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“The world doesn’t need any more tagging software or mapping software. Hell, none of the ones out today charge a dime anyway. Instead, we need to raise the bar and challenge ourselves to find real opportunities and create value – value that people will pa
Edgeio launches
Development of an open platform for listings continues with yesterday’s launch of Edgeio. This service picks up on blog post that are marked as a listing using a Microformat-like tag and collects them on a website for users to search through. They have some nifty interfaces in place to allow you to zoom in on listings that are close to you. One thing they haven’t addressed yet (but are aware of) is the problem of fake listings and spam.
Structured Blogging is working in the same field, but from a different angle (focussing on the bloggers, not the site that collects listings). I wrote about them earlier over here (in Dutch). The biggest challenge for the Edgeio crew is probably gaining critical mass to be able to compete with the likes of eBay.
Everyone was blogging about this yesterday, here are some of the posts:
Rojo redesign revisited
links for 2006-02-28
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Whitney Quesenbery crashes his Palm and wonders: who’s to blame? Should designers take responsibility for the consequences of products that break down?