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How to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies

3 Jul 2009
via [Ask E.T]

3 Jul 2009
by LukeW
In a number of recent articles, I've been cataloging the capabilities of new consumer device product platforms with deep interest. One might wonder: why so many articles on the technology within smart phones, consoles, media players, and netbooks/pads?

It boils down to a simple mantra: know your ... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Unders...

2 Jul 2009
"Uniting a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars, this volume considers the views of early twentieth-century European thinkers on the creation, dissemination and management of publicly available information. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the volume reflects the nature of the think... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

The Future of HCI: Intelligent User Interfaces as Agents of Change (preso)

2 Jul 2009
"The predominant interaction paradigm for the last 30 years has been Direct Manipulation. This metaphor is starting to crack under the weight of information it has to deal with. The Indirect Management approach taken by systems such as Intelligent Agents aim to alleviate the cognitive load on users.... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

More Sensors Coming to the iPhone...

2 Jul 2009
by LukeW
In Designing for Sensors, I outlined how ubiquitous integration of sensor technologies in consumer devices shifts how we think about designing digital products. Soon, instead of just designing for computing (productivity and data management) or communication (email, social networks), we'll be design... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Analytical design and human factors

1 Jul 2009
via [Ask E.T]

Pattie Maes on interfaces and innovation

1 Jul 2009
"There is a wealth of information available, and most of it these days is digitized. I feel that we still don't have good ways to know what information may be available and what is relevant to whatever we are currently doing, to be able to access information, especially while we are in the middle of... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Building Better User Interfaces

30 Jun 2009
"A great user experience starts with the user interface. In this talk, we will explore best practices in user interface design in a learn-by-example approach of the good, bad and the ugly in user interface design. From web sites to rich client, you will learn how areas such as navigation, layout, t... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Stacks on the iPhone

29 Jun 2009
by LukeW
In my Apple’s Next Integrations article, I showcased several examples of how the company integrates new capabilities across its product line. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith recently did the same himself by building an implementation of OS X's Stacks feature on the iPhone.

On a related not... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Integrating UX & Agile

26 Jun 2009
by Carrie Ritch Eberhardt
Last week I attended a panel on integrating user experience into Agile development, put on by the Western NY Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (WNYHFES). The panel was interesting in that I learned more and more companies are embracing Agile...
via [paper & pencil]

First Person UIs on Android

25 Jun 2009
by LukeW
In my iPhone with a Compass = First Person UIs article, I discussed how location and orientation awareness in mobile devices opens up a set of new interface possibilities that are designed from the user’s current perspective. In other words, first person user interfaces that are built knowing wher... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Web Form Design: Korean Edition

24 Jun 2009
by LukeW
web form design in Korea

Insight Publishing has translated my latest book Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks into Korean and the book is now available for sale in Korea. If you are interested, take a look at the book announcement from Insight and the product listing on their site. Or peek inside the book at the Korean ... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Apple’s Next Integrations

23 Jun 2009
by LukeW
Not only does Apple Inc. develop a lot of new hardware and software capabilities, they do a great job of integrating these new capabilities where it makes sense.

Consider the lifecycle of Coverflow: a software capability that allows fluid visual browsing of digital assets. Coverflow first appeare... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Notes from UX London

20 Jun 2009
by Carrie Ritch Eberhardt
Luke Wroblewski posted his notes from UX London: e-service, Eric Reiss Designing from the Inside Out: Behavior as the Engine of Product Design, Dan Saffer What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive, Jared Spool Designing Our Way Through Data, Jeff Veen...
via [paper & pencil]

When is it “Useable Enough?”

15 Jun 2009
by Carrie Ritch Eberhardt
Notes from the UIE Brain Sparks podcast: Userability #9 - When is it "Useable Enough?" Establish metrics for what is considered usable enough, e.g. 80% task completion, 90% satisfaction Check out Measuring the User Experience "Get to point of least...
via [paper & pencil]

UX London: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?

15 Jun 2009
by LukeW
The always entertaining & insightful, Jared Spool spoke at UX London 2009 about What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?On the Avis website, people could not fill in what looks like a simple form. An asterisk was used to indicate “optional” but everyone thought it meant “required”. When do we cro... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

UX London: Designing Our Way Through Data

15 Jun 2009
by LukeW
Jeff Veen’s Designing Our Way Through Data presentation at UX London 2009 described how a combination of information visualization techniques, individual participation, and passion can help create the future of the Web.1974: represent the end of the sixties. Took cutting edge ideas and pulled them... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

UX London: In Favour of Complexity

15 Jun 2009
by LukeW
Don Norman's In Favour of Complexity keynote at UX London 2009 made the case for complexity with order, lucidity and understandability.People cry out for simplicity. Our stuff is too complex, we want things to be easier. When everyone is asking for something, tend to take the opposite approach.We sh... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

UX London: Parti and the Design Sandwich

15 Jun 2009
by LukeW
In my Parti & the Design Sandwich talk at UX London 2009, I outlined a structure to enable interaction designers to move toward a holistic product design in the face of many stakeholders, cross-functional groups, and diverse audiences.Parti & the design sandwich is a structure for projects that allo... continues
via [Functioning Form: Interface Design]

Designers do it in groups

10 Jun 2009
by Carrie Ritch Eberhardt
Robert Hoekman, Jr. says better solutions come from designing in groups. I absolutely agree. Design is a group activity. The small team beats the lone genius every time. No one individual will have all the best answers. The best answers...
via [paper & pencil]

What the heck is the nature of UI design?

9 Jun 2009
"In this article, I will offer an answer and then I will take a look at authority, power and weight of UXP on multimedia projects relating on the teams and how it could or should refer to for guidance in their work. I hope my answers to these questions will be helpful as well as provocative enough t... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Know Your Core: Providing Focus for Web Applications

8 Jun 2009
"As the Web has grown, the cost of getting a new application online has plummeted. Web hosting services with unlimited bandwidth and storage now cost less than ten dollars a month. Free open source platforms can easily power the back-end of an application. Free development toolkits for client-side p... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

The Lifecycle of a Wireframe

7 Jun 2009
by Carrie Ritch Eberhardt
Nick Finck posted slides from his Puget Sound SIGCHI lecture on The Lifecycle of a Wireframe. Some slides are repeated and it's not clear why without hearing the presentation but it contains a great summary of key concepts and questions...
via [paper & pencil]

Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience

3 Jun 2009
"The new Windows 7 desktop experience, including the new taskbar and Aero Snap, is both a major user experience change for Windows and an early success story. How did we go about evolving pieces of UI that haven't seen major change since 1995? Come hear about our design process and see the evolution... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

From Idea to Feature: A view from Design

3 Jun 2009
"What about unarticulated needs? The data plus intent shows the 'known world' and 'known solution space', but one role we have is to be forward thinking and consider needs or desires that are not clearly articulated by those who do not have the full time job to consider all the potential solution s... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Dwell Magazine has me judge bathroom faucets

15 Apr 2009
by Don Norman
DWELL Magazine asked me to judge bathroom faucets. I got to read the literature on them and examine each one (and read the literature), but they were all on a table in front of me, but free standing -- neither mounted nor connected to anything. So I had to pretend to use each one. Not the best way... continues
via [JND.org]

The Stranger Side of CHI 2009

14 Apr 2009
"At the Computer-Human Interaction 2009 conference last week, researchers showcased many new and innovative ways to interact with machines, from smarter Web browsers to new interactive tables. But the event is also an opportunity to demo more far-out ideas for computer interaction. Here are five of ... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

CHIstory

14 Apr 2009
"If I have seen farther, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants...and then I looked down at those giants and saw the silly videos they made back in the day. CHI Video Showcase 2009."
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

User Experience Video: UX Week 2008

9 Apr 2009
by Don Norman
Here is my talk on User Experience at the Adaptive Path conference on UX in 2008. http://vimeo.com/2963837
via [JND.org]

The Study of Visual Aesthetics in Human-Computer Interaction

8 Apr 2009
"This seminar intended to gather a group of about 25-30 participants who will exchange ideas, views, and case study results that address the seminar's themes. We aimed at discussing methodologies and measures in the study of visual aesthetics in HCI, to explore design antecedents of aesthetic intera... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Selective Memories (Metropolis Magazine article)

24 Mar 2009
by Don Norman
Life is filled with unpleasant experiences. Not only do we survive them, but in hindsight we tend to minimize the bad and amplify the good. Psychologists call it "rosy remembrance." Recently, I gave a lecture on this subject and afterward received an e-mail: "Your discussion ... made m... continues
via [JND.org]

My TED talk

24 Mar 2009
by Don Norman
TED is a fascinating conference. I've given two talks there over the years and serve on their advisory board. TED used to be a by-invitation conference only, but now it is open to anyone who can afford the rather outrageous registration fee. Recently, TED has begun to make their talks ava... continues
via [JND.org]

Sudjik: The language of things

10 Feb 2009
by Don Norman
Here is the blurb I wrote for the back cover of this book.  It is already available in the UK and will be relased in the United States in 2009. Sudjic is the director of the Design Museum in London (one of my favorite museums). How do I sum up this book? "Witty and sophisticate... continues
via [JND.org]

Macintosh: 25 Years

2 Feb 2009
"Although its individual features weren't new, the Mac offered integration, the expectation of a GUI, and interface consistency." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates

11 Jan 2009
"The look back by this forward-thinking man is not without its bitterness. The Web, after all, can be seen as a bastardization of his original notion that hyperlinks should point both forward and backward." (John Markoff - NYT) - Chapter summaries available.
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

Design Journals

3 Jan 2009
by Don Norman
I am often asked - and I often myself wonder - for the names of high-quality research journals in the design field. Oh, there are lots of design magazines with pretty pictures of products, ID Magazine comes to mind along with Innovation, the quarterly publication of the Industrial Designers ... continues
via [JND.org]

Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing

1 Jan 2009
Event videos available - "On December 9, 2008 at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium, SRI International commemorated the 40th anniversary of the world debut of personal and interactive computing by Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the SRI Augmentation Research Center (...) Speakers at the 2008 eve... continues
via [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design]

This is an old site...please go to the new one

11 Dec 2008
by Don Rickert, Ph.D., IDSA
Please go to the new website at www.DonRickertDesign.com.
via [Research, Design & Invention]

The race for perfect

30 Nov 2008
by Don Norman
Hamm, S. (2008). The race for perfect: inside the quest to design the ultimate portable computer. New York: McGraw-Hill. An engaging tale of the product development process, this time following the developments in laptop computers, mostly focusing upon the efforts of the ThinkPad team from ... continues
via [JND.org]

Design Links

How Do You Turn Passion into a Career? (And Should You?) * Get Rich Slowly

The Power of Language in Snow Crash and Babel 17

TED Speakers: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson talks about the need for education to prepare students for the future and to encourage them not to be afraid of making mistakes. To be creative

Inspired Magazine | daily graphic design inspiration

Inspired Magazine is a daily inspiration source for web designers, illustrators, Twitter addicts, iPhone lovers, and other creative humans.

Back of the Napkin

Manuel Lima

Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.

Zengobi - Curio - Mind Mapping, Brainstorming, and Project Management Softwar...

projects | ben fry

The Setup

What do people use to get the job done?

Creative Review - Home

Ariadna Vicente | Art Limited

littlemissfreak's deviantART gallery

The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press

CSM Short Courses - Information Design

Ask E.T.: Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts)

Another great Tufte article.

Archinect : Discussion Forum : Academia : Free Lectures For All!

Should you go Beyond Relational Databases? | Think Vitamin

Coffee Drinks Illustrated « Lokesh Dhakar

Ask E.T.: PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical...

from Edward Tufte's website; start reading around the comment made by "Catherine Kraina (email), February 27, 2008"; also look for "Niels Olson (email), May 4, 2009"

Information Architects » Blog Archive » The Spectrum of User Experience (1)

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Magical Nihilism

Instructional Design Models

DESIGNER NOTES » Blog Archive » Game Developer Column 6: Asynchronicity

A List Apart: Articles: Visual Decision Making

If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn't think so.

Manuel DeLanda, Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture ...

Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 1, Theory | UX Booth

The Art of Computer Game Design

by Chris Crawford

Lessons Learned -- Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Futu...

Via Delicious.

Design Photos

Alcohol Clan

halagabor posted a photo:

Alcohol Clan

Hard Rock

* Toshio * posted a photo:

Hard Rock

There is so much to see and do at the Baltimore, Maryland, Inner Harbor. I took this shot of the Power Plant that houses ESPN Zone and Hard Rock Cafe during our trip to the city not long ago. The National Aquarium on the right and is definitely worth a visit!

Merit Badge

http://TheConcreteJungleBook.com posted a photo:

Merit Badge

by Morris Armstrong Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo" author of the new prose+scrapbook novel now previewing at TheConcreteJungleBook.com. Acrylics and magazine clips. 11 X 14 "

You can publish your scrapbook pages for free in our new ... continues