Author: Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

One Sky

One Sky One Sky Originally uploaded by Kaeru.

Another cool project on Flickr: One Sky asked Flickr users to take a shot of their sky on the 1st of october and upload it to the group pool. It seems they’re planning on making a huge collage of all the photos. can’t wait to see the result!

Jesse James Garrett is coming to Amsterdam

User Experience guru Jesse James Garrett will give a full day seminar on user experience design on November 7 of this year. The entrance fee is a bit steep, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it. According to Peter Boersma, the event is a must for IA’s and UX designers, so it’s hard to resist going!

Blurb from the Adaptive Path site:

Using Jesse James Garrett’s renowned “Elements of User Experience” and “Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams” models, you’ll learn how to design websites & products that meet your users’ and your organization’s needs through applying user-centered design principles.

I added this event to Upcoming.org!

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This year the first European Information Architecture Summit will be held in Brussels, Belgium on October 15-16. I’ll be there to present a poster together with Almar van der Krogt on an interesting navigation concept we developed for a large marketing website. If you’re an IA, or are involved in the structuring of information for online media, then this is definitely the event for you!

Update: added the tag ‘Euro IA Summit 2005’

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Marginalia

A few quick notes:

Flock is a new ‘social’ browser that is supposed to play nice with all kinds of cool services such as Flickr and del.icio.us. (Via Peter.)

PocketMod is a great Flash tool allowing you to create your own custom paper organiser on one A4. My Moleskine cahiers finally have some competition! (Via Bart.)

Ben Hammersley has a new web site. Supposedly he’s also cut his hair. Luckily he’s still wearing his kilt, writing books and talking about blogging, podcasting and all that social software jazz. (Via Tom Coates.)

iTunes 5 dumpt Brushed Metal

Voor Mac insiders only – een hilarisch stuk op Daring Fireball over Apple’s keuze voor wéér een andere look voor hun nieuwste versie van iTunes.

“Brushed Metal: Calculator? I’m out of iTunes and you tell me I’ve still got Calculator? When is the Special Event scheduled for the next version of Calculator? Oh, that’s right, there is none, because no one gives a shit about Calculator.”

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Comment spam hits Leapfroglog

It had to happen sooner or later: comment spammers have found their way to this blog. The last post was hit with four comments advertising all kinds of nonsense. I’ve deleted them, and am forced to turn on Bloggers word verification feature. Now you’ll have to go through one more step when posting a comment. Hopefully it won’t put you off commenting here too much.

Damn spammers.