Archive for February 2007

27 Feb 2007 1722H

Adobe’s Apollo platform for UI

Got this article off Read/Write Web by way of Clusty. Adobe’s rolling out a new web dev platform that’s focused solely on Rich Internet Applications, formerly known as rich media, or . . . whatever, but now leveraged for the desktop.
I was tricked by the keywords for “user experience,” which they are using as a [...]

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27 Feb 2007 0805H

More electronic voting mayhem in Chicago

Great post from Gapers Block Detour on a Chicago election judge’s observations of the user experience for the Sequoia e-voting system.
Check in later tonight. I may be looped in virtually through the wireless connection at the victory party in, of all places, Skokie. Oh whatever. If that’s all they have to pin on Naisy, I [...]

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26 Feb 2007 0312H

BitTorrent has gone legit, and other news

No thanks to a snow and ice storm that delayed my 8:40PM flight out of Midway till 10PM, sat in the gate for an hour, and de-icing took another one, so we didn’t get into KCMO till 1, and not in my hotel until 2. There was a lady sitting a row back who literally [...]

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22 Feb 2007 2127H

Helvetica, a documentary

According to Steve Rhodes’ Beachwood Reporter, one of my favorite blogs anywhere, but particularly strong because of its local focus, and a fun but fearless political stance, there’s been a documentary made about Helvetica. The font. You know. The font on the El? Here’s what Beachwood has to say about that:
Intelligent Design
Helvetica has taken over [...]

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22 Feb 2007 1837H

Prioritizing Web Usability, Homepage Usability: a review

Before Paper Prototyping, I’d read Jakob Nielsen’s and Hoa Loranger’s book, Prioritizing Web Usability (2006), which updates Jakob’s original Designing Web Usability (2000), a classic in the field. Like its predecessor, Prioritizing is voluminous, primarily because of the necessary illustrations, but it can be gotten through in one day with some effort. Here the authors [...]

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21 Feb 2007 0807H

Paper prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder: a review

While sequestered awaiting a flight from Buffalo yesterday at Midway I managed to finish off Paper Prototyping, Carolyn Snyder’s nearly exhaustive guide to the matter. One of the more memorable reviews I read was of someone who dismissed it as teaching him nothing new about paper prototyping, but, for me, therein lies its strength. Paper [...]

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20 Feb 2007 0840H

More hindsight on Sears, Brulant’s Conquering E-marketing Event in Chicago

Say, I saw a while back that Sears Holdings was hiring IAs to fill out their capabilities downtown at their new e-commerce operation, about a mile or two away from here, or in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, about 32 long miles away from downtown Chicago. That’s admirable, and I’m cautiously optimistic about this, but I [...]

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20 Feb 2007 0751H

Disambiguity blogs Bill Moggridge

Through my former colleague, Richard Anderson, I learned of this blog . . . Disambiguity is probably one of maybe three blogs I read on a regular basis that has anything valuable to say about interaction design, mostly because I think for me it comes from someone who is also a working practitioner in [...]

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19 Feb 2007 1923H

The things you learn from web metrics

It’s funny what you can learn, and what’s a day without something new learned? It’s not a day at all.
The floral industry has all kinds of interesting user experience, e-commerce, strategic, supply chain management and fulfillment issues that could prove either very painful or fun to solve. I work on the online retail side, so [...]

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19 Feb 2007 0831H

UX news this morning

There’s a lot of tripe out there about user experience which doesn’t get at the heart of the problem, as when I read people, usually techies and designers, writing about RIAs — “gives you a richer user experience,” which means, what exactly? Flashier graphics, transitions, gee whiz zoom bang type effects and all the [...]

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