Category: Links

New Hipster PDA templates by Paul D. Lagasse, including a template for makers to help sort yarn?!

A detailed guide on how to print Hipster PDA templates on 3×5 inch index cards using a HP printer on MacOSX. Hope this trick works with my old Laserjet 1000…

Latest preview of the 37signals app (more or less a light weight CRM system). Not sure I need this, but who knows!

Rosenfeld goes back to basics and presents a simple approach to large enterprise IA redesigns.

Rosenfeld proposes to talk about updating a site’s design without using the word ‘redesign’, to avoid falling into a boil the ocean approach.

Morville’s prediction of the future of IA points out the importance and value of the international IA community, the odd apparent rivalry coming from the IxD community, and other insights.

A hype-ish piece focussed on mash-ups and Yahoo! new product called Pipes.

An open source GTD application written in PHP. Might give this a spin on my own server. Who knows – perhaps this’ll replace my Backpack!

Series of great articles on getting an keeping your email inbox to zero and increasing productivity.

I was just talking to Peter about the black magic behind FeedBurner’s subscriber stats when I came across this post. Gives a little insight into how web based reader subscriptions are measured.

Saffer reviews Lynch’s book on transcendental meditation. I found the recent interview in Fortean Times tantalising, now I guess I need to get the book!

Triggered by a Where 2.0 talk by Kevin Slavin on big games, Nicolas Nova philosophises about the real meaning of location and how we should take it beyond simple GIS data.

Area/code make big games: “Big Games are large-scale, multiplayer games that include some form of real-world interaction.” Reminiscent of alternate reality games such as Ilovebees.

Cool piece by jack of all trades Garrett Dimon on the origins of his recent redesign. I’m familiar with Tufte’s work and am actually most interested in the underlying system Garrett uses for including all the imagery.

Interesting Ruby on Rails blogging tool.

Stowe Boyd offers a better definition of social media that Scoble does but goes a bit over the top for my tastes; too naive and too focussed on polarizing consumers of old and users of new media with the term ‘edglings’.

Brandon Schauer thinks iCal sucks and I must agree (although I do think his Mac might be a bit underpowered; but on the other hand: since when do we need processing power for calendaring?)

Gene Smith discusses how his (and my own) idea of what a system is differs from a recent post by Merholz’s recent post on systems design.

Links to five useful articles on presenting, creating presentations and being a presenter.

Omroep.nl werkt al enige tijd aan een Nederlandse Digg-variant.

An open source iPhone killer?

A new productivity app called Nozbe uses Allen’s GTD as a starting point. I’m going to give it a spin and see if I have to ditch Backpack!

A new Terry Gilliam movie. Looks like he’s recovering from a spell of bad mojo…

Excellent little WordPress plug-in that generates unique monster images for each commenter on your blog.

“MonsterID is a method to generate a unique monster image based upon a certain identifier (IP address, email address, whatever).”

“Sxipper is a free plug-in for Firefox that lets you log into any website with a single click. Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and the personal data you share every day over the web.”

idproxy.net uses Yahoo!’s API to sign in with a Yahoo! account, then lets you create one or more OpenIDs (of the form something.idproxy.net) to use with sites that support the OpenID standard.

Jon Udell argues that common parts of social network sites should be extracted and integrated into the internet’s general infrastructure. The only thing standing in the way of social networks gaining critical mass after that is fatigue.

Tim O’Reilly asks: “Where is the Web 2.0 address book?”

Metcalfe doubts whether users really want integrated social networks. I think we can integrate networks without taking away the control users have over their different identities. It’s a question of design.

“I fear that Jakob is turning into a pernicious force when it comes to advancing the field of design, because his reach means tens of thousands of people are reading this unsubstantiated crap. Such outrageous claims truly feel like the wild flailings of i

Mark Hurst nails it when he says: “Guess what’s a better experience for game players: talking about processor technology, or having fun?” I love my DS, and I can’t wait to get a Wii.

“Nintendo got religion early on the importance of expanding the audience of console gamers, where the vast majority of the industry’s sales still occur.”

“One of the things experienced designers are pretty good at is determining on any given project what the puzzles are and what the mysteries are.”

I really need to clean out my subscriptions using this method. It’s high time.

Gah! Het woord ‘innovatie blijkt niet één keer voor te komen in het nieuwe regeerakkoord… Tijd om te emigreren?

What contracts actually suit agile projects? JP Rangaswami investigates…

Excellent read; Eric Steven Raymond dissects open source hacker culture and lays its inner workings bear. Thinking about how this could apply to design makes my head spin.

Een aardig stukje over innovatie in het bedrijfsleven gebruikmakend van open source filosofieën. Dit wiki-denken noemen vind ik een beetje een stretch.

Latest entry in a series of posts by Warren Hutchinson on designing search systems. It describes a useful framework to keep in mind.

This post contains links to notes and a PDF of Boyd’s presentation at LIFT on designing social software. Huge amounts of stuff I can readily apply to my current design project. Hooray!

Ah this rocks, now I want the Wii even more; it seems the browser on it is so good it actually allows you to work with the wiki software we use at work.

Clay Shirky effortlessly deflates the hype around Second Life and criticizes mass media for not checking their facts. Should have read and posted this earlier but oh well.

I did not expect Jobs would ever publicly ‘attack’ his business partners for maintaining their silly DRM in this way. Now let’s hope this sets off some changes.

Video of a really cool design and prototyping environment that reminds me of DENIM but with added physics.

Net als Alper wil ik LivingColors van Philips wel hebben (kan ik eindelijk die hippe fusion restaurants aftroeven).

A new (?) lab at MIT focusses on the mobile experience. I’m curious what’ll come out of there in the near future.

Cool Wi-Fi sharing community. My home town is pretty impressively covered but there’s no Fonero in my neighbourhood yet, so I might sign up…

Eric Steven Raymond’s great essay examines how open source software development (the bazaar) differs from the traditional model (the cathedral). Great introduction to what open source is all about.

“With interfaces becoming more complex, and development schedules growing shorter the best prototyping tools may be simpler than you think.” Via Bart.

Gibson’s new novel will be out this august. I can hardly wait! This post goes into how Gibson seems to be developing a new sub genre in sci fi, which he started with Pattern Recognition.

Handy script that allows you to start IMing through Adium using Quicksilver.

Blunder van Yahoo!; ze zouden beter moeten weten dan de CC licenties van Flickr gebruikers te negeren.

A wiki where a community is trying to write a novel. Interesting and exciting, I wonder how it will turn out. Via Harm.

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.”