A new social network has launched this week called The Netropolitan Club which according to its website is intended for the world’s most affluent and accomplished individuals with a staggering …
37 Signals becomes Basecamp
37 Signals, the web design firm founded in 2004 has today announced that they will be renamed Basecamp and their business will focus on 1 single product from today.
The 25th BCS Conference of Human Computer Interaction, HCI2011
The theme for the 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction – HCI2011 – is Health, Wealth & Happiness. We would like to celebrate how the design, development and use …
Content Aware Fill & Adobe Photoshop CS5
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 …
Google’s Prediction API
Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
A BBC report in 1967 predicting the future world of Home Computing
From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
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, …
6 Digital Trends to Watch
The presentation by Steve Rubel ( Director of Insights) & David Armano ( SVP Digital ) on 6 digital trends to watch. Six Digital Trends To Watch by Steve Rubel and David Armano View …
Information Visualisation in Design Practice
A great paper from Joanne Mendel and Jan Yeager on Information Visualisation (knowledge) as a design activity in problem solving. This paper discusses the increasing complexity of problem solving in …
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 …
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 …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …