With the redesign of iOS7, the debate over Affordances and Skeumorphism gets debated once again. It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances to engaging kinetic ones. The parallax …
A list of 22 free Visualization Tools
ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta UI Heatmap
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. …
Google Instant & Scribe
Google today launched: Google Instant Google Scribe (related blog)
Designing Alarms & Alerts on Johnny Holland
Johnny Holland have written another insightful article, this time on the Design of Alarms & Alerts. The article covers some fundamental interaction design principles such as matching criticality to obtrusiveness, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …
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 …
An interview with Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
UIE’s Jared M. Spool has recently had the opportunity to speak with Professor Barry Schwartz about his research on how people make choices, his book The Paradox of Choice: Why …
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 …
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 …
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 :)