Category: Links

Robert Young won­ders whether any oth­er ser­vices could out­do MySpace in the race to cre­ate the ulti­mate con­sole for con­sumer con­trol (C3).

“[…] full-text feeds will be where the val­ue resides in the near future. If you’re still pub­lish­ing excerpts then, your brand will be liv­ing on bor­rowed time.”

Peter Boers­ma explains why he thinks all IA’s are real­ly UX prac­ti­tion­ers and what the next steps for IA’s are.

Jesse James Gar­rett thinks MySpace is such a suc­cess because of the com­plete absence of good visu­al design.

Dan Saf­fer inter­views Lar­ry Tesler, one of the grand­fa­thers of inter­ac­tion design. They talk about con­sis­ten­cy, com­plex­i­ty and com­mon mis­takes made by novice designers.

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”.

“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). 

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.

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.

Results from research into where users expect stan­dard web page ele­ments to be locat­ed. Noth­ing sur­pris­ing, but still inter­est­ing. Via Peter.

Danah Boyd talks about the social func­tion of MySpace amongst teenagers. Inter­est­ing look at social soft­ware that isn’t used by 20-somethings.

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.

Oh dear, anoth­er love­ly book from Mr. Tufte, com­ing this way. This time it’s about “how see­ing turns into showing”.

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.

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.”

“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

Whit­ney Que­sen­bery crash­es his Palm and won­ders: who’s to blame? Should design­ers take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the con­se­quences of prod­ucts that break down?

Get­ting things done using a Mole­sk­ine Pock­et Reporter and a vari­a­tion on the GTD sys­tem. I won­der if I’m dis­ci­plined enough to do this.

Lind­holm aban­dons all dig­i­tal note tak­ing and moves to fash­ion­able Moleskines.

“Social media plat­forms that neglect to put the cus­tomer first nev­er fail to fail.” — Vic­tor Lom­bar­di of the MIG talks about their approach to help­ing large com­pa­nies use social software.

Excel­lent piece on Lego’s strat­e­gy behind the cre­ation of the next gen­er­a­tion Lego Mind­storms. Want­i­ng Mind­storms to be for robot­ics what the iPod was for music; they asked their most fanat­ic users to come up with the specs for the new line of toys.

The post-con­fer­ence pod­casts of this great event (shame I missed it) are now online.

“For­get about the killer fea­ture. Wel­come to the age of the killer user-expe­ri­ence.” — Andreas Pfeif­fer in Ubiq­ui­ty on the suc­cess of Apple’s iPod.

A pro­pos­al for a Tag Query Lan­guage — a stan­dard way of request­ing mul­ti­ple tags to improve context.

Via Edgar: a 37sig­nals-esque app for teach­ers and such.

D’oh — a cool remix of the Lon­don tube map gets pulled offline because some lawyers think it’s infring­ing copyright.