Good post by kevin on Fury.com on the endless urge to redesign.
"Last night I went to the monthly UI/IA cocktail hour, a gathering of information architects and people in associated positions or bents. We did a lot of talking about the iterative cycle and how in reality it's not "iterate, iterate, iterate" but "iterate, obliterate, iterate." "
Saw an interesting snippet of a study in The Standard. Reminds me that every thing that we do reveals who we are, even how we punctuate...
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HE TYPED, SHE TYPED | ||
| Don't try to fool Susan Herring. The professor of information science at Indiana University can tell whether an e-mail was written by a man or woman by reading only a few lines. "People actually exaggerate their gender online," says Herring, who has been studying sex differences in online communication for 10 years. Here are some of the tell-tale signs to watch for. - Liz Krieger | ||
If you see... | It's a ... | Because ... |
| If I'm soooo tired | woman | Weakness for repeating letters. |
| Ah, hell! Damn! | man | 92 percent of profanities (and 90 percent of sexual references) come from men. |
| WOW, HEY | man | Fondness for interjections. |
| :) :( :P | woman | More likely to use emoticons, a way to how they feel. |
| ; | man | The only emoticon guys use more. Flirty. |
| LOL, ha ha, hee hee | woman | Emphasizes conversational engagement. |
| heh heh | man | Flirtatious juvenile Beavis. |
| !!!! | woman | Generally more effusive. |
Found a weird new software methodology, extreme programming
Which "emphasizes customer satisfaction and promotes team work."
InteractionArchitect.com
An excellent resource site on interaction design, user experience, and the value of user testing.
and quite a few other tasty treats.