Online Resources in Web Usability
Nice collection of links about all aspects of web usability, a la Usable Web.
Context-Aware Computing
Just last week I read this article entitled “Ask Not for Whom the Cell Phone Tolls: Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing”. Here’s one of the scenarios mentioned in the article: Spying a newspaper rack, Tom pulls his rented car to the side of the road and hops out to grab a paper. [...]
Stanford Interactivity Lab
I was checking out Jan Borchers’ homepage. He does great stuff with HCI Patterns as part of the whole pattern language thing (see also: Martin van Welie, Thomas Erickson). I was trying to find out more about some list on HCI patterns that I seemed to have subscribed to (ui-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu) at some point. Anywhoo, on [...]
Nude Architects?
As Andrew noted, Web Techniques has now changed their name to New Architect. Their subtitle is “Internet Strategies for Technology Leaders”. Maybe we’ll be calling codewarriors and other technologists “New Architects”; perhaps this is their big landgrab in the architecture namespace…. Did you know that in Texas it’s illegal to have “Engineer” in your job [...]
Updated Links
Updated the links page. Most of the usual suspects are included, though there’s a couple of sites you might have missed.
Interviews with Don Norman, Michael Graves, and Henry Petroski
This interview was from Talk of The Nation on NPR last Friday. Scroll down the page a bit and click on the speaker icon to start the interview (requires realplayer). More info on the program.
The Jack Principles
I saw Harry Gottlieb speak recently. He’s the guy who made “You Don’t Know Jack”, which is among the more natural and fluid interactive games I’ve played. Harry’s big thing these days is what he calls an “Interactive Conversation Interface”, which strives to use conversation as a natural mode for interaction for a computer agent [...]
SuperHumanism Online
On May 29th, 2001, the D&AD SuperHumanism conference took place in London, convened by Richard Seymour of Seymour Powell. The event brought designers and other professional creative people together with historians, social theorists, technologists and policy makers. Their shared goal? To reassert human values over the technological and commercial ones that sometimes seem to have [...]
A Bit More Colorful…
With some help from my friend David, I finally got my act together and put up a new design for Brightly Colored Food. Hope you like it. It’s now running using Movable Type, which I recommend if you’re getting a bit more serious with the weblog thing. If you have any feedback, – freeware var [...]