The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta team & community have published some findings on the use of the UI for the new Firefox 4 Beta with a heatmap of the UI. …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
6 Digital Trends to Watch
The presentation by Steve Rubel ( Director of Insights) & David Armano ( SVP Digital ) on 6 digital trends to watch. Six Digital Trends To Watch by Steve Rubel and David Armano View …
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 …
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 …
Peter Morville, keynote speaker at EuroIA in Berlin September, 2006
This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
Don Norman receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for UCD
The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science is awarded to Donald Norman for the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how …
The Design Observer is redesigned
I was revisiting some archived links of mine and I noticed that the Design Observer had been redesigned. It’s a nice read :)
Eye tracking experiences by Seth Godin
Paul Love from work forwarded this great blog post by Seth Godin on his experiences from Eye Tracking. I think websurfing is a hunting activity. The eye is looking for …
Lecture on Empathy & appropriation in designing for the blind
Salvatore Fiore will be conducting a lecture with the University of York’s HCI GROUP on the 17th of October 2005 titled, Empathy and appropriation in designing for blind experience. The …
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 …
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, …
The redesign of the BBEdit 8 icon
The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon. …