Last weekend I shook off my Berkeley inertia and took a trip in to the city to attend WordCamp.
I particularly enjoyed a talk by Rashmi Sinha about social networks and popularity. There are some problems inherent in basing a site’s navigation on popularity. A lot of sites like Flickr, Digg, etc. emphasize browsing based on [...]
Every now and then you come across a piece of writing that really makes you stop and think. Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface is just such a paper.
Bret Victor makes some salient points in this piece — in essence, rather than desiging good interactive experiences, we should present information in such as [...]
Leisa Reichelt, writing for UI Garden, offers a new perspective on using personas in the design process.
I find personas virtually useless when it comes to design, and I very rarely reference them in making design decisions. For me, personas aren’t about design, but that doesn’t mean they’re not incredibly powerful in other ways.
Rather than using [...]