July 2006

links for 2006-07-30

by Ryan Lane on July 29, 2006

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User Interface Design Patterns

by Ryan Lane on July 27, 2006

Here are a couple of interesting sites with information about UI design patterns.

Design Pattern library
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    Theban Mapping Project

    by Ryan Lane on July 27, 2006

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    Theban Mapping Project is very pretty and well designed. Go check it out.

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    links for 2006-07-27

    by Ryan Lane on July 26, 2006

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    Spending on Customer Experience vs. Advertising

    July 26, 2006

    Nice little article on the benefits of spending money on experience instead of advertising. Put Your Money Where The Experience Is: Spending on Customer Experience vs. Advertising – ICE – Improving Customer Experience

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    MS’s TouchLight

    July 26, 2006

    Take a look at MSR’s “touch light” Microsoft has put together a prototype Minority Report style interface. The basic system involves a transparent projection screen material (DNP HoloScreen) and pseudo touch screen like behavior that is controlled via three cameras placed behind the screen and monitor the users gestures. There’s a video on Cnet as [...]

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    links for 2006-07-24

    July 23, 2006

    Usability First: Usability ROI: Case Studies Doing some research on the ROI of usability. (tags: usability roi design web research) Return on Investment (ROI) for Usability (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) More ROI of usability to read up on (tags: Usability ROI Nielsen IA) ROI of Usability a collection of ROI on usability links so that I [...]

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    The Uncanny Valley

    July 21, 2006

    I find the concept of the uncanny valley very interesting. Having worked with 3D modeling and design, I’ve watched the work of people much more talented then myself create human like characters. I never knew there was a name for it before, but I’ve felt the instinctual feelings that something was wrong with the person [...]

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    links for 2006-07-21

    July 20, 2006

    Whalesalad » OSX Style Web Dock interesting little vanishing edge detection menu for your website. (tags: javascript html webdesign) streamofconsciousness » Drag & drop between lists drag and drop between two lists! Yes! (tags: ajax css dhtml html javascript) XML Nanny (tags: apple css OSX Mac xml)

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    Intelligent design

    July 20, 2006

    I totally want to take over the ownership of the phrase intelligent design. I think the religious movement has totally played it out. Now I think the term should be used to describe the application IA/UX to interface design. You know a bunch of intelligent people who know what they are doing a designing the [...]

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