Well kiddos, I'm going to France again end of next week. I've got a slight break between part one and part two of a project, and I'm dashing off for a couple weeks to the Sacramento of France-- thanks right folks, lovely and delightfully dull Dijon.
http://nothing-new.com/travel/France/burgundy/dijon/ (Dijon pictures start after the deviant cow sign)
In Dijon I will see my husband (woo hoo!), gain ten pounds eating butter-based food and contemplate pretty cows. And I may do some writing, hopefully....
My question to you dear readers is what would you like while I'm gone:
A series of guest editors?
Noel?
Me sporadically when I can connect?
Your choice:
http://eleganthack.com/gleanings/archives/00000011.shtml
Oh, I'm also going to Chicago for work from Monday to Wednesday. any advise on fun stuff to do in the eve, or on a Wednesday afternoon? I'm gonna mostly be on my own there, so love to know how a gal should waste her time...
Congrats nadav, for getting second place in the 5K contest!
This is a truly lovely work.
http://www.the5k.org/description.asp/entry_id=604
and Betsy sends me more type sites! Woo hoo!
"So, here are a couple of sites I didn't see mentioned in your paean to
typography.
http://www.itcfonts.com/itc/ulc/
Not my favorite site design, but lots of nuts-and-bolts type info with a
focus on type designers
http://www.letterror.com/index.html
Nice site from the Netherlands
http://www.gmund.com/gmund_neu/start.php
A really beautiful site for a paper company that breaks a lot of Web design
rules for typefaces and manages to get away with it."
So happy to have found this again: Keith Instone explains how to apply heuristics to the web
Rowley, David E., and Rhoades, David G. "The Cognitive Jogthrough: A Fast-Paced User Interface Evaluation Procedure.'' CHI `92 Proceedings, (May 3-7, 1992): 389-395.
What is Audio Design?
by Gavin Shepherd, with Stephen Turbek
This report is a discussion of the issues regarding using audio elements and sound tracks in modern interactive environments.
http://reports.razorfish.com/frame.html?rr049_audio (PDF)
"Focus groups should be dumped. Instead, real customers should be observed
in real settings."
Business 2.0: Not Forcing the Issue. (via tomalak.org)
An increasing number of companies are turning to their online user communities to help them build and sustain their brands. The motivation is simple. It's an opportunity to create all-important buzz and disseminate information to their core base of users-with virtually no marketing costs.
eNarrative 3
Hypertext Narrative Flash Time:
San Francisco, CA, USA
June 16-17, 2001
"The role of narrative in Web experience is a pressing concern throughout the Web world, from entertainment to ecommerce. While new technologies for hypertext and web-based motion graphics promise to bring powerful narrative experiences to the Web, the reality is not so rosy: engaging web narrative is still hard to find, and commercial motion graphics have largely failed to merge sophisticated interaction with compelling storytelling."
http://www.enarrative.org/
Excerpts from "USA So Weird! The Foreigner's Guide to America."
"Restaurants that combine food and entertainment are an American specialty. You've probably heard of such famous American establishments as Planet Hollywood and the Hard Rock Cafe, where you can enjoy a variety of fried foods underneath Jean-Claude Van Damme's underpants or Neal Schon's guitar. Many large cities have "fifties"-themed diners, where you can be transported back in time to a more innocent era where hamburgers cost nine dollars."
Went to biggerhand to catch up on how Henry's doing. you should too.
I think may 5th was aimed at me....
Blogging wears folks out.
So my sister said, "I got 37 hits last week!" If you have a second, click through and see if we can give her 38 this week
Actually you may like her content... she is a terrific writer. Though I'm a little concerned about this shoe-obsession she has.
been looking for this for awhile: WebReview.com: Site Usability Evaluation
A poxy on webreview for breaking all the links to their fabulous articles; on the other hand a thanks to them for not taking them down...