Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …
Colour selection with Scheme Generator 2
Web Style have created a useful colour tool that helps in the selection of colour combinations. The tool creates suitable colour combinations within various palettes that are comfortable and pleasant …
IA and User Experience books from 2003
This blog post is from 2004. Jess McMullin from IAslash has post a list of some of the User Experience and Information Architecture books from 2003. Below is the list …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …
An Engineering vs. User centered remote control
Webword posts a nice link to an article which introduces the differences between Engineering-centered design and User-centered design, by commenting on the remote control of a VCD player.
Interaction Design by David Lu
There are some great Interface and Interaction Design works in David Lu’s portfolio website. Some of his physical interactive projects include, a Phone Dial Web browser, visualization work such as …
From a Computer-Centric to a User-Centric OSX Finder
Here is the Apple keynote by Steve Jobs at the WWDC, Worldwide Developers Conference from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, US available in QuickTime. With a few self promos …
A photo of early research on a project (2003)
For a few days now, my mind has been totally devoted to HCI and Interaction Design, both for a project and a post graduate subject. Here’s a view of my …
User Experience Conference Chicago and London
Here are the dates, summary and list of speakers for the User Experience 2003 conference which is happening in Chicago (Sept 21-25) and London (Oct 6-10).
User Experience in a budget-conscious climate
This blog post is from 2003. There is a great article in New Architect by Jesse James Garrett titled All those Opposed: Making the case for user experience in a …
Stop Design comments on public design advantages
Douglas Bowman from Stop Design comments on “Public Design” and the interesting ways in which public comments during development is helping commercial and non-commercial websites better develop, consider and design …
HCI subject at UTS with Dr. Toni Robertson
I started my HCI postgraduate subject at UTS last night with Dr. Toni Robertson. Here is the list of recommended readings/books: 1. Preece, Jenny, Yvonne Rogers, Hellen Sharp (2001), Interaction …
The Elements of User Experience
The Elements of User Experience – User Centered Design for the Web – is a book by Jesse James Garrett, an Information Architect based in San Francisco. He has written …
NSL photo's and Experience Design
I’ve got photo’s of the National Soccer League finals between the Wollongong Wolves and South Melbourne from Parramatta Stadium earlier today, I’ll post them in the supplement tomorrow. Also check …
The Art & Science of Web Design
I bought The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen the other day. I totally recommend it. I am only 1/4 thru it, but its a well structured …