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, …
Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition
This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …
Dynamo Project from the Interact Lab at Sussex university
I had the opportunity to visit the Interact Lab, a research centre at the University of Sussex in the UK. The Interact Lab in the university, aims to develop innovative …
Eye tracking 2004 research findings
Steve Outing and Laura Ruel have summarised their 2004 findings of eye tracking technology using Eyetrack III and multimedia content. The tests observed 46 people for one hour as their …
Peter Morville 2004 IA research and literature
Peter Morville has posted a summary of his summer research findings within Information Architecture, grouping university papers, readings and journals he has found most valuable and useful. His summary includes, …
The Encyclopedia of HCI
The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction will be published in 2005 and will be edited by Dr. Claude Ghaoui of Liverpool John Moores University, UK
The Captology notebook
The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab have a blog site on Captology which aims to inform on how computing products can be designed to change what people believe and do.
What to do with a talking horse?
UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse. Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise …
Useful tips on RSS Usability
There are some useful usability tips when considering RSS in a blog post at helge.at. Some of the considerations include disguised links, too few textual information, too many articles per …
Visual perception papers from Freigurg University
Some of the interesting medical papers and research of human visual perception currently being undertaken at the Dept. of Ophthalmology at the Medical school of the University of Freiburg, Germany. …
The IBM History Flow research project
I’ve been reading up on a variety of projects whilst here in the UK. One I found particularly interesting is the IBM History Flow research project. The project is part …
Popular colour combinations with Colorcell
An experimental website and project, Colorcell, which aims to find the most popular color combinations.
W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Edge.org has published an interesting article on the 2000 prescient paper by W. Daniel Hillis titled, “Aristotle”, in which he proposes “The Knowledge Web”. The 2000 paper, covers a similar …
IBM developerWorks web blogs
Here is a listing of some of the active blogs within IBM’s Developer Works website. They include, Kurt Bittner – Software Development, Grady Booch – Software Architecture, Simon Johnston, Michael …
Peter Ottery and the CSS redesign of the SMH
Last night I had the opportunity of attending the Sydney June meet of the Web Standards Group (WSG), a local chapter of developers and designers pushing for web accessibility. The …