A documentary of the Steven Levitt book, Freakonomics is due for release on October 1st in the US.
Information Visualisation in Design Practice
A great paper from Joanne Mendel and Jan Yeager on Information Visualisation (knowledge) as a design activity in problem solving. This paper discusses the increasing complexity of problem solving in …
Service & Customer Experience Maps from Mel Edwards
A brilliant blog post by Mel Edwards on Service & Experience Maps.
What’s a customer experience map? It’s a graphical representation of the service journey of a customer.
Favourite UX & Technology Blogs (2010)
A great UX Matters article of favourite User Experience & Technology blogs by fellow experts & writers.
Patternry’s a great source for UI design patterns
Patternry, previously known as The UI Pattern Factory (and for a while Pattern App), is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a …
Clay Shirky on information overload versus filter failure
A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
Developing Design Principles by Luke Wroblewski
Following Luke Wroblewski’s 2009 Parti & The Design Sandwich talk from Interaction09 in Vancouver, he has written a summary on how to go about developing Design Principles. Update: Dave Malouf …
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Ralph Lengler and Martin J Eppler have published an insightful table of Visualization Methods. The Table is taken from the paper Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management …
Carolyn Snyder on Paper Prototyping in the design process
An interview by UIE’s Ashley McKee with Carolyn Snyder, the author of the definitive 2003 book, Paper Prototyping. It’s an interesting read and anyone new to paper prototyping will find …
An interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
I do like the concept that you have with the information scent, the semantic mapping. I think it definitely ties into the mental model that a user has when they …
A quote from Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …
My Presentation on Digital UK from EuroIA 2006
I’ve uploaded my powerpoint slides on the UK’s Digital Television Switchover from EuroIA in Berlin earlier this year onto Slideshare. This years theme focused on ‘Building Our Practice’ and was …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
What is a backronym? and its relationship to the word Acronym
A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. The word “backronym” is a portmanteau of back …