links for 2008-02-14
Thursday, February 14th, 2008-
The value of user experience design, using the iPhone as reference. Anyone struggling to explain the difference between experience design and visual design may well find this useful.
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links for 2008-02-13
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008-
A very useful web utility for calculating grid permutations.
links for 2008-01-17
Thursday, January 17th, 2008-
An old (eight years) article by Jakob Nielsen on navigation, that is still pertinent to challenges I’m facing (again). Most resonant (paraphrased) point for me: ‘Don’t show the user everything you have, show them what is relevant to their current goal.’
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The stickler in me can’t help but applaud this – printable alert labels for too-commonly overlooked details in graphic design.
links for 2008-01-12
Saturday, January 12th, 2008-
Of course, I could do better than this! These CHILDREN have nothing on my scratching skills.
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More DJ Sara action – quite bloody impressive really!
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Might as well link to three of them whilst I’m at it. Eight years old – eight years old!
links for 2008-01-08
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008-
Poor audio aside, a very informative presentation from Google’s Matt Cutts on optimising your pages for Google, and ensuring that there’s useful information surfaced on their search results pages.
links for 2007-11-10
Saturday, November 10th, 2007-
Note to self: ‘When you finally get around to using your bike again, this site has great guides on setting up and adjusting those ever-so-tricky derailleur gear systems.’
links for 2007-11-05
Monday, November 5th, 2007-
John Siracusa gives Leopard the once over in a very long and thorough review.
links for 2007-10-13
Saturday, October 13th, 2007-
A rather helpful list of usability issues that we UEDs should bear in mind when designing experiences. No revelations there – but very useful nonetheless.
links for 2007-10-09
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007-
Tim O’Reilly on the adoption of Facebook apps and how the (economic) value is all (currently) in the head content.
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Keeping with the facebook theme – some old(ish) demographic data. I wish that there was more granularity to the ‘over 35′ category though!
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And while we’re talking Facebook – a humorous take on businesses ineptly chasing after the Facebook/MySpace goldrush.
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Wonderful summary of Yahoo! Music’s Ian Rogers presentation to the music industry – I could not agree more.
links for 2007-10-05
Friday, October 5th, 2007-
Kevin Hale does a wonderful job of visualising and explaining, Fitt’s Law – a must for all hci designers.
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