I graduated from my Master of Interactive Multimedia (MIMM) the other day alongside some postgrad and undergrad friends and peers from IML, the Faculty of IT and Science Faculty at …
Colour selection with Scheme Generator 2
Web Style have created a useful colour tool that helps in the selection of colour combinations. The tool creates suitable colour combinations within various palettes that are comfortable and pleasant …
Tools by Pat Ensor for academic library searching
Pat Ensor maintains and develops a list of search resources intended for the expert searcher. Her Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher, includes search tips and resources for Subject …
User Interface Patterns and Techniques
Jeniffer Tidwell has written a useful list of common patterns that helps provide literary solutions within Interface Design. Her list isn’t intended as a step-by-step guide on creating an interface, …
Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition
This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …
Survey of future and current IA work trends
Lou Rosenfeld has invited the participation in a short survey to detect past and future trends regarding where information architects work, and how much of their work is dedicated to …
About Some-Rights and All-Rights reserved
There are some interesting companion articles by Amy Gahran and Travis Swicegood which explain the differences between Some rights reserved and All rights reserved.
Nose movement and blinking controls the mouse
New Scientist comments on a new innovative interface that allows users to move the cursor on the screen by softly twitching your nose from left to right, and accepting actions …
Weblog use within education
Alan Kleymeyer has collected some useful and interesting links that promote the use of weblogs within education.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4
The new series of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by will be airing on BBC Radio 4 this coming Tuesday.
JPEG rendering has security flaw
Microsoft has added a security patch for JPEG Processing (GDI+). The patch is quite interesting because it fixes a flaw in the rendering of a JPEG image by software code …
Movement & Meaning presentation and Lavanotation introduction
My visit to Sussex University included attending the presentation of PhD student from UTS Lian Loke, titled, Movement & Meaning: A Study of iToy. The presentation was extremely interesting and …
Dynamo Project from the Interact Lab at Sussex university
I had the opportunity to visit the Interact Lab, a research centre at the University of Sussex in the UK. The Interact Lab in the university, aims to develop innovative …
The W3C SSML becomes a W3C Recommendation
The W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) has become a W3C Recommendation on 7 September 2004. This standard, aims to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction as an …
Four kinds of privacy
Christopher Allen has posted on his interpretation of the four types of privacy and trust. His blog post is quite interesting and separates the definitions into defensive privacy, human-rights privacy, …