Some of the new interesting features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes showing off effects even developers did not intend. One such feature is Content Aware Fill as written about on …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Papers from the Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005
Papers presented at the NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005, MMUI 2005, Sydney, Australia.
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 …
MapCruncher: Interactive Web Maps Come to Life
MapCruncher – a prototype technology from Microsoft Research that makes it easy for users to create their own, personalized mash-ups – may revolutionize the way people use online maps. An …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
The Wealth of Networks (PDF’s)
The Wealth of Networks – PDF’s Download PDF’s of the book under the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license. The wiki where the PDF’s reside is a collaborative and research website …
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 …
Peter Morville’s new book Ambient Findability
I’ve ordered the new Peter Morville book, Ambient Findability earlier today from Amazon UK. His new book covers the intriguing convergence of information and connectivity within Human Information Interaction (HII). …
Characteristics of Being In Flow & current literature
Victor Bayin has commented on the ACM Ubiquity article by Benjamin B. Bederson titled, Interfaces for Staying in the Flow. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks like an …