Random request: if you know any good typography classes in the Bay Area, drop me a note. I’m more interested in the page layout side of things than actual construction of typefaces, but I’ve looked and haven’t seen anything with much promise.

He asked for a good resources to get started. In the past I’ve given people an extensive list of books, articles, websites, etc. This time I tried to go simple — a couple of articles that give good advice:

So You Want to Be An Interaction Designer (cooper.com)

Notes for job seekers in UI Design and Computer Science (uiweb.com)

Both the Cooper archive and UIWeb archive have a fairly comprehensive set of articles. Along with Boxes and Arrows, that’s a solid set to start with.

As far as a collection of resources go, I’m really impressed by Dey Alexander’s collection. If I could only recommend one list, this is that list.

I loved seeing this in the sidebar of someone’s weblog. Sure, it definitely has elements of a popularity contest, but it also contributes to that sense of mutual awareness that’s so lacking in weblogs. I have a vague sense of readership by going to the trouble of looking at site logs, but the audience can’t turn around and say “damn, this is a bigger audience than I thought”.

Working on my thesis last year, I considered how presence, impression management, feedback, and common ground all contribute and characterize the general feeling of connectedness (for lack of a better term) created in one-to-many systems like weblogs. Here’s a little one-page pdf showing related examples and design themes. As a framework, I feel like it’s a little fast and loose, but I’ve found it helpful on a lot of stuff I’ve designed since.

Passed along from Kenneth, Usability Specialist at Macromedia and lover of Navarro Vineyards’ grape juice.

Several of these were shown at the “Video Visions of the Future” panel at CHI, which included Hugh Dubberly, Bruce Tognazzini, and a guest appearance by Bill Buxton, who had some great rants on the importance of time-based “sketching” of interface concepts using video.

I couldn’t find anything that Buxton had written about on using video as a design tool on his website, but there’s a ton of other interesting articles, all online. Random aside: I met him at DUX last year when he sat down with a bunch of us grad students all having breakfast before the sessions and for about fifteen glorious minutes held forth with his visions of the future of computing. It was one of those moments that makes overpriced conferences like DUX worth it.

Seeing stuff like this makes me wish we were occasionally a little less pragmatic here in Iron City.

This is one of the first public weblogs I’ve seen for an academic/research group – any I’m missing?

The weblog has some nice coverage of the conference right now, and it looks like Anne, Fabio, and Molly have all been posting to the weblog. There’s also several others who haven’t yet posted, including Matt, Adam, and Andrew. Could be quite good. Just one question: where’s the RSS feed for the weblog?

From Dan via email.