No doubt, Tokyo is full of bits and pieces of playful architecture and lots of temporary installations that make clever use of the city’s crammed spaces.

Web designers often concern themselves with optimizing sites for spiders from Google, Yahoo, and other search engines, but pay little attention to creating sites that real people can use.

In the Usability field, this experience is usually defined in terms of ease-of-use. However, the experience encompasses more than merely function and flow, but the understanding compiled through all of the senses.” -

It is argued that the actual elements of typical browsing episodes have not been well captured by common approaches to the concept to date.

Software construction is slow, costly, and unpredictable.

When people say they want a system to be “intuitive,” they typically think they mean that users should immediately understand how a system works when they encounter it. But you cannot really do that with many systems … not even with most systems people

what takes to be a great User Experience Designer? What are the necessary skills or area of skills? Is it good to be a design generalist? And design opportunities at Microsoft for recent graduates. It’s great to get a design guru like him’s view on these

This paper presents a survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniques of the films to existing technologies and prototypes where possible. The interactions will be categorized with respect to t

Introductory text on Web pages is usually too long, so users skip it. But short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content’s purpose.

Pliability - the sense of captivating and malleable information in interactive visualizations, and
Fluency - a desirable characteristic in situations of multiple media streams fighting for the user’s attention.

Interactive information visualization provide researchers with remarkable tools for discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional spac

sn’t 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Well, in this case it means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42. Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, brow

The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real semantic web, is going to change this. What we mean by ‘Web 3.0′ is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services - and will effectively expose their information to

If you find a really good article, try copying and pasting the full URL to above. Often times similicio.us will be able to find related articles via del.icio.us

(or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)

What the band got was an average of $8 per album sold, bringing estimates of profit to about $10 million. Not too shabby for one week. The number of albums sold in the past week exceeded the launch week sales of its three previous albums combined.

Flickr is going to be rolling out a new Maps interface and Flickr Places to highlight their geo-tagged photos. They have an amazing amount of photos (1.38 Billion) with a new geotagged photo coming almost every second and felt that they needed new ways to

TagMaps is a toolkit to visualize text (well, tags) geographically on a map. Check out the sample applications, where we use Flickr tags on a map to build a world exploration tool.

indeed a list!

Chan thinking about the user in social software and social media, from a designer’s perspective, and thinking about the user experience behind participating in these systems. Wondering, for example, how this all becomes “social.”

The amazing popularity of the bookmarking site Del.icio.us is one of the hallmarks of the current social software renaissance happening on the Web. Along with Flickr, Del.icio.us is a poster child of tagging, a simple feature whereby people attach words o

Perhaps there is a very obvious 1:1 relationship between Facebook and Google simply in they are both mappers. What’s left then, to map out? It would be a good thing for a start-up to know.

En tysk fotograf truer med rettssak etter at Unge Høyres medlemsavis Xtra uten tillatelse brukte bildet hennes som forsidepryd.

For all the folks tired of hearing about Web 2.0 and very often not knowing what it means, there nevertheless remains the underlying reason for coining it: clearly apparent, widespread new trends in the way the Web is being used.

Ajax has indeed helped give us the next major new platform for software, almost certainly forever surpassing our desktop operating systems as place we develop and use most of our software applications, consumer and business both

At this point we’ve got a model to help us understand Agile’s iterative development incremental release lifecycle, and a Garrett’s model to help us understand a software design process. Both models think and work outside-in.

Since the activities of designing and planning are encountered so many times in an Agile process, and since we’re considering plan and design synonyms, let’s look more closely at the process of design.

When designers and politicians put their heads together, are we seeing the dawn of a brave new world or just the re-birth of big brother? Kevin McCullagh investigates.

Whatever the challenge your organisation is facing, there’s a design solution. Design can help everyone from small businesses to schools transform what they do.

How can design help people live healthier lives? As a nation, we are getting less active and unhealthier. Tackling this lack of activity - and its related conditions such as heart disease and high blood pressure – has become a major challenge for the NH

as the world changes, design changes. How should designers best prepare for the inevitable new openings? Where is the unexplored territory? Where will the action be?

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