A great UX Matters article of favourite User Experience & Technology blogs by fellow experts & writers.
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 …
Clay Shirky on information overload versus filter failure
A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
Carolyn Snyder on Paper Prototyping in the design process
An interview by UIE’s Ashley McKee with Carolyn Snyder, the author of the definitive 2003 book, Paper Prototyping. It’s an interesting read and anyone new to paper prototyping will find …
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 …
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 …
Programme for OZ-IA conference in Sydney (Sept 2006)
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions. Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail …
IBM User Experience Technical Report: Inside Social Network Analysis
I came across this interesting article the other day, whilst doing a little research at work on Social Networking. The paper titled, Inside Social Network Analysis, is a technical report …
Oz-IA 2006 Conference, Sydney (September)
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home! I remember (while …
3 types of Breadcrumbs
Hal Shubin has posted a summary on the ACM CHI-WEB forum about 3 different types of Breadcrumbs, Path: Shows the pages you clicked on. Location: The place in the information …
Observations from creating a tag cloud (weighted list)
I’ve been reading a lot recently about persuasion and captology with recent projects that I was compelled to look at possible patterns from tags within posts here on reloade. I …
Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC
Livia Labate has uploaded recording from the discussions in last weeks IA Summit 2006 Redux sessions. Here are a few recordings with the discussions: 1. IA Summit Redux Part 1 …
Flickr goes Gamma from an earlier Beta version
I was revisiting my Flickr account today to explore interestingness when I noticed that some of the interface had changed. It was a breath of refreshing air to see how …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
Task-based navigation vs. topic-based navigation
I’ve recently been working on a project with Grand Union where the discussion of task-based navigation vs. topic-based navigation came up. After a search on the Web, I came across …