History Flow
History Flow: visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. Focuses on document revisions in wikis over time. Excellent visualization work by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas at IBM Research this summer.
Two new weblogs
1. Styleborg. Kerry is a good friend and HCI masters student at Carnegie Mellon. She’s into wearables, techno-textiles, and the like. From Rob 2. Orange Cone. From Mike Kuniavsky, user researcher extraordinaire at Adaptive Path. From Molly Both should be quite good. It’s great to see new people take to weblogging – my family started [...]
Design for Real People
“Designers learn about aesthetics. They seldom learn about human psychology…. Humans are fallible. Learn that. Cherish that…. Design for people as they are, not as you would have them be. Design for inefficient users. Design for creative, imaginative people who will do things with your design that you never have dreamed of, things both good [...]
NIME Proceedings
The New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference was wonderful. So was Montreal. I’ll post more in a few days, but for now, you can check out the online proceedings. It’s so wonderful when proceedings are publicly available… Completely unrelated: I just saw five huskies walking down the sidewalk, single-file, with their owner bringing up the [...]
Job Seeking Advice
Some solid, straightforward advice from Scott Berkun at Microsoft about landing a position in any of the user-experience related positions. Many of the graduating second-year interaction design students as well as the HCI students are currently out looking around. Best of luck to them – some friends have already landed great positions, and I have [...]
David Lu at Ivrea
Not your typical weblog, David Lu’s site is a portfolio of sorts, documenting his various projects during his time at Ivrea. Very cool – both the site and his work. We spend a lot of time documenting process here, but it’s usually gift-wrapped in a more refined presentation format that loses some of the subtleties [...]
Realtime Multi-threaded Conversations
Yesterday I played with Hydra, a collaborative text editor that allows several people to write in the same document at the same time. It’s intended for coders using the Extreme Programming approach of coding in pairs. Being the curious sort, I (mis)used it with three other grad students to have a discussion about enchantment and [...]
New Toys
Clutter – shows the album cover art of whatever’s up in iTunes. From AKMA’s Random Thoughts Trusted Blog Search – best Google hack I’ve seen yet from Micah, a friend over in the HCI program here. It allows you to do a Google search against your RSS subscriptions (using your OPML file) to search the [...]
Wearable Prototypes
Frog Design put together an interesting system of wearable devices for Motorola. The School of Design is hosting a Career Days event tomorrow, and both Frog and Motorola will be there, so perhaps I’ll find out a bit more. We’ve been exploring wearables quite a bit this year in school – I just looked at [...]
Reports on Ivrea
Andrew pointed the other day to some interviews of various designers and technologists on the Ivrea website. I’d also add that there are some interesting reports assessing the progress the school has made since its inception two years ago.