This has to be one of the most functional and relevant posters I’ve ever put up on a wall. It’s from the UPA (Usability Professionals Association) and it briefly goes over and organises the process of designing software for the user. I got one mailed to me when I joined the UPA as a free …
One thing that has recently become a problem for me is the loss of usefulness of Alt-Tab. For those of you who don’t know, Alt-Tab in the Windows world and beyond is the shortcut to quickly switch your active application. But what happens when I can’t switch to my active applications, because they’re buried in my web browser? This effect will become more pronounced as more and more applications that we use daily sneak into the web browser – unless we launch everything from Silverlight or Gears shortcuts on the desktop. That is not the case, since I’m much more likely to get to Google Calendar by clicking an Add this GCal link, than I am to launch it from my desktop.
As of a few days ago, I’m looking for a new opportunity in interaction design, usability evaluation, user interface design, and related fields. In the last few years I’ve had a great deal of good contract experience, so I’m looking for a project management position … or at least a position at a firm where …
So I’m starting my study of tagging, and searching with keywords. Image search has lots of really interesting nuanced problems, but the ones that interest me involve the language of the image “tag”. If you’re interested in participating, take a look at my little recruitment page: http://grabka.org/internet/flickrsearchtagging/ It’s a multi-step process that starts with you …
Introducing Flickr Search Tagging! It’s a little utility that enables a couple of things: Let’s you to propose tags for images that don’t belong to you on Flickr. Contributing tags if you want to help describe the image is often not possible, unless: you’re the owner, you’re a contact of the owner, or the person …
Sometime around when I was 14 years old the World Wide Web showed up. and it seems that I have been developing with it ever since. So never, ever did I expect to be as lost on the Internet as I currently am: it feels like the one domain where I should be competent. With …
The gentleman in this video, Dr. David Weinberger, thinks it’s a pretty terrible idea to try to categorise ideas in the same way we categorise physical things in the physical world. Many people who deal with information on a regular basis tend to think that since you can only stack a chair in a single …
This is information about design patterns that can be used in the design of user interfaces. The patterns I’m particularly concerned with deal with the look, feel, and behaviour of modern interface elements, such as those found in browsing “the Web.” Patterns are often employed in object oriented software development and engineering, much more so …