Category: Links

Incred­i­ble book con­tain­ing 999 design clas­sics. Must have, to buy, etc.

Huz­zah! Matt Webb will be speak­ing at Reboot 8. His talk was one of the high­lights last year, look­ing for­ward to his talk on “Mak­ing Senses”.

The appar­ent grandad­dy of facetted nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems has gone open source. Some of the demo’s are real­ly nice exam­ples of the pow­er of facets.

“Radio fre­quen­cy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion is a tech­nol­o­gy that is now rapid­ly devel­op­ing. […] to what uses can this tech­nol­o­gy be applied that are not in the logis­ti­cal realm? […] This read­er com­piles a num­ber of resources on the tech­ni­cal and philo­soph­i­cal asp

This book looks inter­est­ing, a look at what it means to do inter­ac­tion design for the mobile plat­form. I’ve read the first chap­ter. The style is slight­ly aca­d­e­m­ic and the approach is quite comprehensive.

Fun with GPS receivers — this site has an excel­lent gallery of writ­ings & draw­ings made over the earth.

A US hos­pi­tal has set up a design lab. They’re design­ing new hos­pi­tal inter­ac­tive sys­tems and eval­u­at­ing present spaces. Nice exam­ple of the appli­ca­tion of design in “new” areas.

An extreme­ly read­able piece on adults that refuse to grow up. Con­tains pho­tos by Ari Versluis.

Coates talks to old school media about “social media”. He’s not sure what the term means, but in his ever so elo­quent way gives a nice overview of the phenomenon.

A rather clue­less piece by Newsweek on web 2.0. This is a good reminder of the fact that what makes sense to the aver­age tech­nol­o­gist is still far from main­stream thinking.

Some obser­va­tions on where mobile gam­ing is head­ed. From a CES panel.

Powazek lash­es out at the term “user-gen­er­at­ed con­tent” and instead pro­pos­es the use of “authen­tic media”: “Authen­tic media is what hap­pens when the medi­a­tors get out of the way and give the mic over to the peo­ple who actu­al­ly have some­thing to say.”

Morville raves about the arrival of Every­ware, a new book on ubi­comp, the inter­net of things, etc. Sounds inter­est­ing, to buy.

A review of Axure’s new pro­to­typ­ing tool. I test­ed it recent­ly and was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised. The only thing it lacked? Basic draw­ing tools — why weren’t these included?

Chris Heath­cote reviews four S60 Flickr upload­ers. A nice overview of the cur­rent state of the art and some cool new ways meta­da­ta is being gath­ered in the mobile realm.

A nice exam­ple of game the­o­ry in action — 6 pairs of peo­ple try to find each oth­er in NYC.

Newsweek did a web 2.0 piece, LIS site ResourceShelf com­ments: “Some­one needs to tell the writ­ers of this sto­ry that tag­ging is not a taxonomy.”

Pabi­ni Gabriel-Petit makes the case for UX in soft­ware devel­op­ment: “The bar is set high­er than it’s ever been before. Invest­ing in user expe­ri­ence will help a com­pa­ny excel and ensure its success.”

A nice bal­anced piece on the advan­tages and dan­gers of pro­to­typ­ing and agile dev: “HTML pro­to­typ­ing and full-on agile devel­op­ment of Web appli­ca­tions are increas­ing­ly viable options that help min­i­mize com­mu­ni­ca­tion gaps and assump­tions and deliv­er more ac

“Design is not sole­ly visu­al. Those who believe it is, make an uncon­scious deci­sion to con­fine them­selves sole­ly to craft.” Via Bart.

Thought­ful analy­sis of the cur­rent web 2.0 hype by Dan Brown. Dis­cuss­es the “new” metaphors for the web (web as plat­form and web as net­work) and what it means for IA.

It seems every­one thinks Mac Mini is very suit­able for pimp­ing. Here’s anoth­er nice piece on how you can get the most out of one of those tiny sil­ver boxes.

A few trends on the (low­er case) seman­tic web front­lines are pulled togeth­er into a nice overview. Part one in a series on how to design for the emerg­ing “web of data”.

I seem to be link­ing to Danah Boy­d’s writ­ings a lot late­ly. This essay describes the dif­fer­ences between Friend­ster and MySpace: why the for­mer was a fad but the lat­ter is bet­ter fit to evolve. She also express­es some con­cerns with the “moral pan­ic” surro