UxD

Journal of Information Architecture

July 8, 2009

I almost forgot to mention this fine new publication / site The Journal of Information Architecture.  Go and read the first issue. And if you think you’ve got something worth saying then be sure to submit while the current call for papers is open until Aug 1st.

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OmniGraffle links for 2009-07-07

July 7, 2009

User Interface – Graffletopia Or just go here too, to get a whole bunch of them (tags: userexperience design usability ia webdesign ui interface ux graphics interaction omnigraffle gui tool prototyping stencils wireframe wireframes drawing stencil) OmniGraffle Stencil: Social Media Interface Objects | Refined by Fire Some handy social media & web 2.0 OmniGraffle Stencils. [...]

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clyckslexia

July 6, 2009

Word of the day: clyckslexia When a user double clicks the submit button, or double click web links.

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Design and the Elastic Mind

July 3, 2009

Stop what you are doing right now and go check out the MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind online exhibit.

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IA / UX Deliverables

July 2, 2009

Research Initial research around the application, service. Interviews of stakeholders and customers. Reviewing competition. Outlines Gathering information in outline form can be an extremely helpful way to quickly collect short bits of information like product names and then group and sort them under different headings. I almost always start my projects here. It really helps [...]

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Visualizing Traveling Tweets

July 1, 2009

Just Landed – 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo. This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over [...]

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Has technology made the crappy tasks better, or even enjoyable?

June 22, 2009

I find that I can’t clean my own home without my ipod or something playing from iTunes.  It’s not always music either, I’m listing to podcasts, audiobooks and downloadable versions of radio shows.  Because the technology has made is so easy, I’m consuming more media more often. Most of all I’m consuming it at times [...]

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UX Titles

June 17, 2009

This tweet from Jeffrey Zeldman really sparked my thinking about this issue. UX Titles have always been a discussion topic at IA Summits and other UX conferences. I myself have had a laundry list of titles from Information Architect, Digital Strategist, Experience Designer, and even Creative Director. My personal favorite is User Experience Designer, even [...]

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Autodesk’s Revit 2010 Ribbon – Designing the User Experience

June 11, 2009

I think it’s really wonderful when a company share’s there process like this.

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Home of the future

June 10, 2009

There are so many things I love in this video. I can’t wait until all my walls are dynamic. Sadly they have embedding disabled so you’ll have to follow the link to watch it. Home of the future

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