Time for a long over due rant on Jakob Nielsen - the usability guy a lot of people loves to hate, including yours truly (nowuseit.com was for one suppose to be sort of a response to Jakob's useit.com, but I decided it wasn't worth the battle). Anyway, I have come to think that when we say we don't agree, or what he says isn't important at ALL - ...

Kris Cohen, needs some airplay here, I recently had the fortune to hear a talk Kris gave, marking the end of his work with INCITE group at University of Surrey, UK (where I'll soon be a visiting researcher, more on that later) - There is now a podcast out on the talk, and I command you to listen to it. It's a good 1,5 hours of elegantly elaboration ...

Just recently I was interviewed by a Journalist for the Journal Samvirke, who wanted to know "what happen with peoples website when they pass away". He basically wanted to know about the central legal stuff, which is safe to say: not my ballpark. But I'm of that opponion that traditional law is not the best way around this. To have regulatives or institutionalized power deleting or editing ...

It is not often I get the chance of airplaying something that is about to break, usually I’m so late getting into the game, all the action has moved to another ballpark. For instance, just above this textfield where I'm currently writing these lines, I see a recent draft for a post praising the functionality of the Mac OS X Tiger, that I has just recently got to ...

"In all societies, ethical and aesthetic mediations supply the simplified technical object with new secondary qualities that seamlessly reinsert it into its new social context. The ornamentation of artifacts and their investment with ethical meaning is integral to production in all traditional cultures. Only modern industrial societies distinguish production from aesthetics through indifference to the social insertion of their objects, the substitution of packaging for an inherent aesthetic ...

DAC 2005 - The Digital Arts & Cultures Conference is coming to a University near me! The theme is "Digital Experience Design" and there's a fresh call for papers out for August 8th. go see!

This workshop advanced HCI aesthetics into a research agenda. It concluded by formulating foundations of HCI aesthetics (chiaesthetics?). These centred on developing a new vocabulary of interactive experiences that defines the material of presence grounded in research involving experiment, analysis and intervention. John Knigth from BIAD UserLab, has put out a summary of the Nordichi 2004 workshop Finland on Aesthetic Approaches to HCI on Usability News. Yours truely is ...

...technology second "Social tools don't fit well into the HCI paradigm. While the interface is important, it is not as important as the way social relationships are negotiated. Napster was not a good interface, but the social desire to share overcame that. Many of the Articulated Social Networking tools are the same - a pain in the ass to use, but worth it because of the social ...