Search Results
Louis Rosenfeld has a couple of good posts in his Bloug about presenting search results, especially listing out a Best Bets section. I’m not a search engine expert, but I did do a bit of work on the intuit.com search results. Notice anything? Best Bets maybe? I haven’t had enough time recently to do a [...]
The fine arts of sound design and foley artistry
After almost a month of recording, edits, re-edits, and mixing, I’m finished doing all of the audio post-production on Dan Wu’s film, Untitled Hitman Film. What a relief and a thrill to be done – that was the biggest artistic undertaking I’ve completed for quite a while. This may sound preachy, but what the hell: [...]
Reading Lists
Run out of things to read? Want to see what others cite, read, or otherwise recommend? Last week I was organizing a couple of binders full of mostly academic HCI articles and I happened on some good reading lists I’d printed out, fearful the pages might disappear eventually. I typed them in, and they’re all [...]
BCCS & Products
I always enjoy reading Don Norman — he’s usually just grumpy enough to make his insights and arguments bite a bit harder. This time he’s taking to task the Behavior, Cognitive, and Social Sciences (BCSS) academic departments for poorly training students to efficiently function in industry (though, admittedly, most academics probably don’t care about this [...]
How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
Good comments from Phil Agre on participating and contributing within a network of fellow professionals.
Taking a Content Inventory
From IA Slash
ACIA: Interview with Peter Bogaards
From LucDeskPeter, webmaster of the always excellent InfoDesign, talks with Louis Rosenfeld about his website as well as the historical differences between Information Design and Information Architecture.
Can Navigational Assistance Improve Search Experience?
From the September issue of First Monday. Compares the search experience of three different interfaces, including one they’ve designed that looks fairly similar to the one at MSDN. They found out (big suprise) that theirs works best. Might be an example of where using frames is actually a good idea.
At the Heart of Interaction Design [.pdf]
Elan thinks you should all read this. And his BBQ chicken isn’t too bad. He’s looking for a new consulting gig these days, so you should hire him — if you like Alan Cooper, you’ll loooove Elan Freydenson.
Foley
My new career as a foley artist begins in earnest this week. I have a random collection of props laying around my room, and I spent several hours out this weekend in the Outer Sunset looking like a fool holding a microphone at toward nothing in particular while recording ambient noise for several scenes. I’m [...]