The Alchemy of Experience

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Mark Hurst comments on the “Alchemy of Experience”, a look at how great creativity can sometimes come from great constraint, by transforming small amounts of raw material into rich results. …

Expanding the Approaches to User Experience

In Archive by Fredy Ore

There is a super interesting article in Boxes and Arrows this week by George Olsen, titled “Expanding the Approaches to User Experience”. The article comments on the Jesse James Garrett …

Essay on steps to a career in User Experience

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Adaptive Path, the company which was started up by Jeffrey Veen and co, has written an interesting Essay titled “Starting a Career in User Experience”. The essay has been written …

Google tops the Brand of the year Award

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Google has been named brand of the year for the first time, beating Coca-Cola, Nike, Apple, Nokia, Ikea and BMW. It did this without any advertising. More can be found …

In search of some multimedia sites

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Last week I went in search of some motion graphics, audio, video and interaction websites as reference material for one of my masters subjects which I am doing at uni. …

Emoticons vary from region to region

In Archive by Fredy Ore

An interesting article which looks at how emoticons (characters symbolising human emotions) vary from region to region. As an example the article covers how western american and european smilies :) …

Creative Good gets redesigned

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The creative good website, which was founded by GoodExperience author Mark Hurst, gets a redesign. Creative Good is a consulting firm focusing on improving the online user experience. ::: http://www.creativegood.com/

Mac OS 101 Keyboard shortcuts

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Finally I post this one: The Mac OS 101 Keyboard shortcuts macos.about.com/compute/macos/library/weekly/aa021400a.htm. Update (May 2006): OS X keyboard shortcuts can be found also on the Apple website.