Kitty sympathy card is really peculiar, almost blue velvet peculiar.
After Karl Fast's terrific talk, i will never doubt the potential of visualization.
Today i tripped over Visualisation Patterns which might help make that potential realizable.
Just in time delivery comes to knowledge management is a tight little article that I have referenced many times to show why KM & IA are important. I had no idea the entire text was online. Worth a read.
"The ways of organizing information are finite. It can only be organized by location, alphabet, time, category, or hierarchy. "
thoughts on this thought? I was re-acquainted with ti recently, and category/hierarchy bothered me. i think i should prefer category/attributes....
Mule Design » Store let me find the perfect gift for my favorite philadelphia native.
nate points me to Forlizzi: Theories of Experience, which is essentially an interaction design theory cliff notes.
write on the arm for the next pop quiz!
"Two School of Information students have developed a digital library for the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA), a professional organization dedicated to furthering the information architecture profession. "
RealNetworks and Google Enhance Web Experience for Users Worldwide
"RealNetworks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the leading creator of digital media services and software, today announced that the Google Toolbar(TM) is being distributed with RealPlayer(R) 10. "
All i gotta say is... lie down with dogs, get up with fleas...
peter points out a Google Search for findability shows my (former) business card and his feet.
From the face of information architecture to the feet of it?
just noticed you can map out wifi hotspots on Yahoo! Maps
"I believe that one of the most overlooked elements of good design is consistency, especially in corporate identity design."
Logos is a useful site to have in ye old bookmarks.
from California legislator moves to block Gmail - News - ZDNet
"A California state senator said Monday she was drafting legislation to block Google's free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words.
"We think it's an absolute invasion of privacy. It's like having a massive billboard in the middle of your home," said Sen. Liz Figueroa, a Democrat from Fremont, Calif. "
A Better Social Networking Algorithm
Based on the classsic saying, "The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend" a better SN is proposed...
(thanks Frédéric!)
A friend recommends Browser Cam :: Browser screen captures in any browser, any version, any operating system.
"I finally got around to checking up on all the way cool stuff Y!'s been doing with RSS of late. I'm still sitting here shaking my head in awe at all of this"
In Joi: Opting out of Plaxo Jay explains why he'll never use Plaxo, and Stacy of Plaxo explains why he's maligning the service incorrectly.
The platform issue remains.
Which brings up the question, if you want influencers to join and write about your service, maybe that 3% of the user base should be catered to (i'm speaking of the not-so-silent minority of mac users). Usually it's not a financially sensible thing to do, code a unique base to 3% of users, at least not until your numbers hit millions, but if that 3% is noisy bloggers...
where'd you go today, honey?
out.
what did you see?
nothing.
and the truth is... i went blogrolling following to see how long it took from a B&A comment to find someone I knew.
i saw medical history, flash strategies, political activism, european history...
actionscripthero
jesse warden
peter joel
fullasgoog
anticlue
family medicine notes
medical weblog
gruntdoc
practice for a practice
wonkette (made me pause for a sec to read)
Matthew Yglesias (made me laugh over brucetta)
Informed Comment
fistful of euros
metamorphism (my favorite-- "Paul Gaugin: The light here rocks. Doesn't the light here rock? Have you ever seen light like that? Vincent van Gogh: Lalalala.")
uppity negro
and finally found someone linked to I knew: rebecca blood
six degrees my ass.
how many degrees are you from some blog(ger) you know?
On Widgetopia today, all my google ads are for nonprofits.
Enforced altruism?
Seeing ResearchBuzz -- Cookin' With Google made me dream of an ironchef cook-off between yahoo and google....
The Onion | The Onion | Yahoo Launches Soul-Search Engine
"There are bound to be some bugs, but we're not too worried," Semel said. "We at Yahoo have a lot of experience in helping people navigate an environment full of falsehoods, random useless information, and truly horrifying pornography. I don't think the human soul will hold any real surprises for us."
A bit weary of the googlemania, I bagged on reading this issue of wired. But I finally took a look, and really enjoyed the google redesigns. They are fun.
They won't work at all, of course, at least not as a main interface. The three laws of search design are speed speed and speed.
About 90% anyhow... I've been waiting to make a proper formal announcement with a sexy new website but this weekend was sunny and hey, philippe suggested a hike in the woods and really, I spend way too much time on the computer any way. And this is eleganthack, my personal site, and I can be as human as I wish here, right? No one wants a press release...
Let me start over: I've resigned from Yahoo! My last day was March 29th. I nearly announced April 1st, but I thought that might cause some mischief with being taken seriously.
Why did I quit? Not because of Yahoo-- Yahoo is a pretty exciting place to be these days, so much so I accepted them as my first clients. So I'll be doing a consulting gig there until July. (thus the 90% I mentioned earlier).
Why did I resign? For a lot of reasons: I wanted to go back to consulting. I like the project-based nature of the work. I've always been more of a midwife than a nanny, as I say to anyone who will listen. I like to kick off new things, but then let others refine them and grow them.
And I want more time to write. I don't know yet if it will be B&A work, another book, or maybe try to do some fiction and write that novel, but I know I need to get some writing time for myself. and writing takes a lot of time. Consulting will allow me to build in writing breaks.
So what about Yahoo? Is it a good place to work? I'd say so. A huge team of UED people, including web devs, user researchers, graphic and interaction designers. In house labs. Eyetracking, participatory design, RITE and other things you usually only get to read about. mark-up heading standards/css. Design moving strategic. Smart people like George Olsen and Erin Malone joining. If you wanted a full time job doing design in the valley, you could hardly find better.
So what about the site itself? The infamous no-design design? Look at personals, search, sports, shopping, photos, and autos, for example. I'd say it's getting better every day, piece by piece. These things don't happen overnight. But I think the Yahoo of 2005 will be a very different, very wonderful creature. You could be part of that. Me, I'll be part of it via consulting, then I'll go be part of something else.
What kind of work will I be doing? Well, I got a lead the other day from someone saying "We need to completely rethink X, but we don't really know where to start or how to approach it." and that's me. The big messy design problems where you don't quite know what research, what design-- perhaps not even what sort of people to solve it. I did it at Yahoo as Director of Design, I did it at Carbon IQ (although more focused in usability/IA then). And I hope to do it for many more companies struggling with complex problems, from search to branding, from IA to team building.
Now I've got to figure out how to talk about that. And make a business website. And sort out a legal structure. and get an accountant. and health insurance. Oh, and print cards.
But I just wanted to let you know.
France 2004: Languedoc and Paris photos, if you are interested.
A work of art or a harbinger of violence? / Grisly short story gets student expelled from S.F. academy -- and costs teacher her job
I can't believe this could happen at an art school. Art school is supposed to be the place where we are taught to push the boundries of the acceptable and be a mirror to people's many sides, including dark ones. Amazing.
I'm catching up on blogs.
I suddenly wondered what my world view would be if I read nothing but slashdot and design is kinky.