Voting has started for the UK Designer of the Year which includes a shortlisted group including Jonathan Ive, Industrial Designer at Apple. The award by the Design Museum is given …
Semi Permanent Design Conference
Don’t forget that the Semi Permanent Design conference is on this weekend, starting tomorrow here in Sydney. Thanks to Tiff and Aquent for the invite and ticket on Sat. More …
What is Captology?
Captology refers to the process and design into how computers can be designed to change what people think and do. It also refers to the study of computers as persuasive …
Peter Merholz comments on Finding the Right Users during research
Peter Merholz has written an interesting summary in the Adaptive Path Essays section which comments on better ways of finding users for research. He looks at a more scientific approach, …
Design plays a huge role in Web Credibility
Small Initiatives comment on some recent research which shows that Design plays a huge role in the credibility of web sites, particularly e-commerce and e-business. Web credibility is an interesting …
Some interesting comments on the New Yahoo Search Engine
The New Yahoo Search Engine launched today. I came across some interesting user comments and feedback in the Signal Vs Noise post titled, New Yahoo vs. Old Google.
David Heller comments on alternatives to HTML
David Heller has written an interesting and explorative article titled, HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. The article comments on the new technologies which have and are further being …
Live webcam of the Sun
DiscoveryChannel.com have a live webcam which points at the sun 24 hours a day. The cam shows a live Ultraviolet view of the Sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory …
The Secret life of Numbers
Ever wanted to find out which integers were the post popular and most used by people everywhere? Well, someone has now done a study on humanities most popular. You better …
Outbreak revisited? or just smart bugs?
The World Health Organisation for the first time ever has adviced on travel to a specific geographic region because of an outbreak of an infectious disease. This precedent makes me …
The official website of director Pedro Almodovar
The official website of Spanish flamvoyant director Pedro Almodóvar. Some of his film credits include Talk to Her (2002), Live Flesh (1997) and All About My Mother (1999) which won …
Do usability myths need a reality check?
Signal vs Noise post an interesting comment on Usability Myths. The post comments on a recent article by Will Schroeder from User Interface Engineering (UIE), who has written a feature …
A new PDA phone for the blind
Kinny Cheng from iMobile posts a review of the new Alva MPO mobile phone/pda for the blind. Along with other products, the device offers a Braille “display” for the visually …
SXSW 2003 Photos & Mozilla Hacks
Matthew A. Haughey from A whole lot of nothing has uploaded some photos from the US South by Southwest interactive festival earlier this month. He has also written an interesting …
Google Labs – the technology playground of Google
labs.google.com is the location of Google’s technology playground. The site contains some of googles latest developments including the new 26 March Google Compute where you can donate your idle computer …