InfoDesign: Understanding by DesignDedicated to the growth and improvement of the information experience industries.The what, when and why of wireframes- June 27, 2008 "They are a visual representation of the content of a web page that is the culmination of user research, business objectives and content. Best brought together in a sequence of pages to illustrate paths of navigation and interactions on the page." (User Pathway) - courtesy of thehotstrudelhttp://userpathways.com/2008/06/26/the-what-when-and-why-of-wireframes/#comment-319 Death to Lorem Ipsum & Other Adventures in Content- June 26, 2008 "(...) to push the thinking further with a discussion about content, UX teams, and how the relationships can be strengthened to create experiences and projects that really sing. The resulting conversation start with content basics and closes with a bold challenge." (Kate Rutter - Adaptive Path blog)http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000959.php Designing better services- June 26, 2008 "Service Design is a new holistic, multi-disciplinary, integrative field. It helps to either innovate or improve services to make them more useful, usble, desirable for clients, as well as more efficient and effective for organisations." (Stefan Moritz)http://stefan-moritz.com/Stefan%20Moritz/Service%20Design.html Is Information Architecture worth saving- June 25, 2008 "I'm a person who is deeply passionate about Information Architecture, but also troubled about its future. In 10 years, will we be iRise jockeys or strategic leadersor something else entirely If you ask me, my gut says that Information Architecture is definitely worth saving, but right now, I can't tell you why." (Matthew Milan - Experience Matters)http://experiencematters.criticalmass.com/2008/04/14/is-information-architecture-worth-sav... My Manifesto: Great Customer Experience Is Free- June 25, 2008 "Here's my new quest: To dramatically increase the focus on customer experience within companies by getting everyone to understand that great customer experience is really good business." (Bruce D. Temkin - Customer Experience Matters)http://experiencematters.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/my-manifesto-great-customer-experience-i... Reboot 10 interview: David Weinberger- June 25, 2008 "It is always a pleasure talking to David Weinberger and just catch up with what he is up to, but I am also looking forward to listen to his after dinner talk at reboot and learn a bit about the history of information!" (Reboot 10 interviews)http://crueltobekind.org/archive/2008-06-22/reboot_10_interview_david_wein More Than Useful- June 25, 2008 "The presentation was framed by a slightly philosophical look at how certain games subliminally activate cognitive processes and could thus be used to allow for new insights. I used Breakout and Portal as examples of this. I am convinced there is an emerging field of playful products that interaction designers should get involved with." (Kars Alfrink - Leapfrog)http://leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/2008/06/23/slides-and-summary-for-more-than-useful/ XML Fever- June 25, 2008 "The Extensible Markup Language (XML), which just celebrated its 10th birthday 4, is one of the big success stories of the Web. Apart from basic Web technologies (URIs, HTTP, and HTML) and the advanced scripting driving the Web 2.0 wave, XML is by far the most successful and ubiquitous Web technology. With great power, however, comes great responsibility, so while XML's success is well earned as the first truly universal standard for structured data, it must now deal with numerous problems that.http://dret.net/netdret/docs/wilde-cacm2008-xml-fever.html New York Times Redesign: A Case Study- June 24, 2008 "How do you redesign the website for a venerable news brand with a distinct identity and a loyal readership What's more, how do you face challenges like the commoditization of online news, the rise of user-generated content, and other emerging technology trends, while still upholding journalistic standards In this seminar, we will discuss the process we followed during the recent redesign of The New York Times, including research we conducted, forward-looking concepts we developed, and...http://www.businesstobuttons.tv/vivvo_general/7.html Five things I believe about the aesthetics of interaction design- June 24, 2008 "In interaction design, we are not doing visual art. The user's aesthetic experience lies in the interaction, the way in which the system behaves and responds over time in interplay with the user. To put it simply, when we talk about aesthetics we need to talk about look and feel, not merely about look." (Jonas Lwgren)http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/Material/aesthetics_of_ixd.pdf |