One of my good friends currently in Singapore, Michael Lim, has uploaded a copy of his 2004 Showreel.
Ubiquitous Computing – Vodafone’s vision of the future
Last year I had the opportunity to study a post-grad subject called Interaction Design at UTS with Dr. Toni Robertson. The subject taught us about usability, HCI, heuristics and touched …
Dynabook Revisited – a conversation with Alan Kay
Peter J. Bogaards from BogieLand has posted an interesting link to a series of essays by Alan Kay from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). One of the essays is …
Animals: The Inside Story on ABC
There was an amazing documentary on ABC tonight titled, Animals: The Inside Story. Part 2 of a 3 part series explored the birth of new animal life – from baby …
IAThink on colour blindness and usability
Heidi Adkisson from IA Think has posted an interesting blog entry on some of the usability concerns with colour blindness and the hyperlink.
CSS Vault is a great CSS resource
The CSS Vault website contains a selection of css websites which both inspire and are a great CSS resource. The website is a great place to visit for any designer, …
IA and User Experience books from 2003
Jess McMullin from IAslash has post a list of some of the User Experience and Information Architecture books from 2003. Below is the list Universal Principles of Design Condensed design …
Differences between vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology & meta-model
A great article which discusses and looks at the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model. Contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company, …
Creating better 404 error pages
AlistApart have published a great article on creating better 404 error pages. A server 404 error page or message occurs when a website page is missing or cannot be found. …
Voyager 1 spacecraft reaches edge of solar system
View PostKeeping Found Things Found
A great article from the AScribe Newswire on Web users and their ability to find, store and later recollect links and useful information. The article comments that keeping track of …
Digital Cameras are making us better photographers
A BBC technology article looks at some of the reasons why Digital Photography is making us better photographers and could be an end of film. Personally, I hope that digital …
An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition
Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …
Wireless hotspots in Australia
An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald which looks at some of the open Wi-Fi hotspots in Sydney.
Information Design paper
An interesting paper by David Sless from CRIA titled, Theory for practice. The paper looks at five principles of Information Design – politics, position, parsimony, politeness, and performance and was …