It never ceases to amaze me, that the best experience we seem to come up with for feeding a computer, after multi-touch this-and-that and semantic wonderment, and peer2peer, socially syndicated gobble-d-gook, are text fields, radio buttons, check boxes and menus. My Dad used to say that he had an unparalleled skill at creating errors on
Woke up. Made coffee. Made breakfast for the kids. Touched base with the blogshere. Brainstormed a new product idea with Donna. Signed up for Last.fm. Signed up for medium, whatever that is. Signed up for some voice-to-blog thig Guy twittered about. Created a new amp/pedel cobo in Garage Band. Learned some new minor chord voicings
If you’ve ever struggled to make a decision … you’ve engaged in the design process, though you may not have even known it. In the next 5 chapters I’m goign to describe the 5 phases of design: Discovery, planning, design, execution, and follow-up.
My professional objective is to come up with the most amzing experiences imaginable. Imaginable. Think about that word for a minute. Imaginable. Not experiences we know how to build… Not even experiences we know. Just great experiences which will make people say “that was amazing! I want to do it again, and I’m going to
Listening to conversations between designers and developers is an endless source of amusement. Contributors and visionaries from both camps will always have expectations and frame questions from the view of their own professional specialty. It gets even better, when a programmer and a designer discuss working Agile methodologies, and gets even better when they have
From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike… Wired News:
Here is a list of links which explain, in increasing levels of sophistication, an initiative which is attempting to make sense of the glut of information on the web. The plan is to make it so computer programs can make logical assumptions and relationships between resources on the Web based on the semantics of their
Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing… The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders. In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are
from Ben on RDFWeb list In an upcoming spin off on Movable Type, the folks at Six Apart are including support and networking of Friend of a Friend files from their upcoming product TypePad. It will be exciting to see where they go with this service. If they just link between their hosted page it
Eric Miller is the World Wide Web Consortium’s Activity Lead on the Semantic Web Initiative. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist for OCLC, as well as co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. …”The Semantic Web is all about data integration, and much richer ways of organizing things based on contextual