Entries from Kelake tagged with '2'
Businessweek ad placement
Great ad placement Businessweek! Thankfully I can still see the printer friendly page, which is mislabeled. It should be labeled reader friendly. I can understand the need to display ads - I display some adsense ads which cover my...
Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport
I arrived in Bangkok late a few nights ago via Taipei. Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport arrivals section seems quite unfinished or is it supposed to look like this? If you like a dull modernist aesthetic, than you will love this...
The Mother of All Footers
For ages we have ignored the bottom or footer section of our screen designs. We bought into and never lost the notion that the only part of the screen that had any value was the first view and that...
A Tale of Three Communities
Magazines need to open their doors to their readers. Instead of thinking of writers and readers as two separate communities, magazines need to realize that they really only have one community: the people who give a shit about their magazine....
PRINT's regional design annual on DVD
I just found what I want for Christmas this year. Thank you Swissmiss. PRINT's Regional Design Annual is the only comprehensive profile of design in the United States. Now you can have immediate access to ten years' worth of...
McKnight Principles of Innovation
William L. McKnight's (3M chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966): “As our business grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to delegate responsibility and to encourage men and women to exercise their initiative. This requires considerable tolerance. Those men and...
The Smart Phone: A Ubiquitous Input Device
A paper by Rafael Ballagas, Jan Borchers Michael Rohs, and Jennifer G. Sheridan. Mark Weiser envisioned ubiquitous computing as a world where computation and communication would be conveniently at hand and distributed throughout our everyday environment. [1] As mobile phones...
What does web accessibility mean to you?
People who find it difficult to use a computer keyboard and mouse, can turn to other devices to navigate the internet, but if the site has not been designed with accessibility in mind, using the web can prove to be...
The Problem with Telecommuting
This past Monday I had problems with my wireless network which prevented me from having access to the internet. I thought at the time it was a problem with my isp, as I had thought many times before, but playing...
Shift Mobile Art Competition
The aim of the competition is to discover fresh creators and support them, Shift provides a platform to show works using a mobilephone as a medium The works will functioned as a mobile phone clock, and the submissions are...
Robert Paterson on Community
"Community is not a feature of where we are going it is a centrality. All the growth will come from design that takes this new reality to heart. Community is also not ranting on message boards but happens best inside...
Interview with Jan Chipchase, Nokia
Jan Chipchase is Principal Researcher at the Mobile HCI Group in Nokia Research. His personal insights can be found on Future Perfect, Jan’s wonderful photo-intensive weblog. As he says: “… if I do my job right you’ll be using it...
Italian Pulp Science Fiction Magazine Covers
An incredible gallery of over 1500 Italian pulp science fiction magazine covers, spanning 1952 to the present day....
Issue 8: The Loop as a Temporal Form
Looks like some good reading for a few idle moments this weekend. Nice early 90's web aesthetic! As a form, the loop contradicts the linear structure we typically associate with time. The common-sense formulation understands time as a progression forward...
Dove ad, "Evolution"
In case you haven't seen it yet. I think I will do the sam to myself for this years Christmas photos - age has not been kind to me....
Berthold's Grotesk Akzident
I can't count the number of times I have wanted to destroy a printer in my house....
December Exhibition
"To present the musical soul of the masses, of the great factories, of the railways, of the transatlantic liners, of the battleships, of the automobiles and aeroplanes. To add to the great central themes of the musical poem the domain...
The Long Tail from IHT
An explanation of the jargon phrase that I keep wanting to explain but always fail.Want to buy an out-of-print book, a folk song recorded on a 78-rpm disc or some 18th century ceramics from Lunéville? You know already that the...
Woofer Speaker
Design: Sander Mulder & Dave Keune, Buro Vormkrijgers This is functional kitsch; the wrong becomes the new right. By adding a function to an otherwise grotesque object, it acquires new aesthetic values, becoming an object of desire. Pun intended,...
MP3 Itineraries
I see maporama is putting into practice the concept I had for auditory itineraries. I called it Guidebot, a terrible name but one that fit all the other 'bot' names at the company then. Good on them for being able...
Taiwanease Issue2
In the heads down mind fog of "bus(y)iness" of last week I forgot that Issue 2 of Taiwanease is out and available in limited (hurry get one before they are gone) quantities at key locations throughout English speaking Taiwan. An...
Jessey Meng and Toilet Gate
You just can't make this stuff up. The Mainland Chinese forums are ablaze with indignation that someone would make a joke at their shoddy toilet facilities. From Reuters: Enraged Chinese Internet surfers have called for a public apology from a...
An Ive for Design
Businessweek retrospective on Jonathan Ives.The man who, after Jobs, is most responsible for Apple's amazing ability to dazzle and delight with its famous products, chose instead to talk about process -- what he called "the craft of design." He spoke...
Taiwanease Magazine
The first issue of Taiwanease Magazine was officially released to the wild today and can be picked up at a number of outlets throughout Taiwan. Kudos to all. Special thanks to 錢世泓 and 汪峻德 for their illustration work. 汪峻德...
Luke Wroblewski on Refining Data Tables
Luke Wroblewski writing for UX Matters: After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places,...
Seth Godin on Bad Design
An entertaining video featuring Seth Godin. He would have a field day in Taiwan where just about everything is broken. Not just in meat space but naturally online where delaying the transaction is a natural way of doing business....
Ross Lovegrove Presentation via TEDTalks
From the TEDBlog: "Ross Lovegrove is an industrial designer, best known for his work on the Sony Walkman and Apple iMac. In this highly visual presentation, he presents his recent work -- from furniture to water bottles -- which...
Open Source DIY MP3 player
Wow, the Sakura open source MP3 player kit opens up all kinds of possibilities for installation projects. For around $30 in parts and a good amount of patience, you can have a completely open source and hackable mp3 player...
Research as a Political Tool
This is exactly what lead to my interest in user research and the formation of our user experience group at a former employer. The "value of user research is often to cut through the politics and convince stakeholders to make...
Traditional Teahouse in Hangzhou
A New York Times audio visual tour of a traditional teahouse in Hangzhou, China....
Apple flavoured sugar water
I haven't felt like writing for a couple of months - not even my usual insipid little blog entries. Maybe I need to create my own Motivational Poster. Perhaps more apple flavoured sugar water enhanced with Vitamin C will...
Late Projects
Some quotes from a thread on 37s: “How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.” -Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist "We release things when they are ready to be released,...
Image of the Environmental Cost of War
BEIRUT: At least 10,000 tons of heavy fuel oil have been spilled into the Lebanese sea, causing an environmental catastrophe with severe effects on health, biodiversity and tourism, environmentalists and the Environment Ministry said Wednesday. Two weeks ago, Israeli...
Sound Bomb
Soundbombs have an integrated sound module, triggered by a motion detector that blurts out a comment when someone passes by. The practical and gag applications for this are endless. I love it....
How to live happily with a great designer
Thank you Mr. Godin. My favourites:2. if you want great work, you'll need to embrace some simple facts: It's going to offend someone. If it doesn't offend them, then it will make them nervous. 11. Don't get stressed about your...
Stencils for OmniGraffle - Graffletopia
I found this morning a new web site for user-contributed stencils for OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle is diagramming and charting software for OS X which I have been using it for years. It's a great tool for designing interfaces. Graffletopia....
This Global Phenomenom Called 'Internet'
A CBC report from 1993 on a global phenomenon called 'Internet'. Do you remember what it was like to be online back in 1993? I remember being a moderator of a hugely popular bbs hosted on dana.edu servers. Community...
Betelnut girl: Not Always What You Expect
The silly things you do when you have free time. Ruby, "Funny Guy", and I went out one night (over 3 years ago) to film some betelnut girls for a class project. I remember wanting to pay a bunch...
Old Hotwired Homepage Screenshots
From waaay back in 1994, Jeffery Veen posts his screenshots of one of the first great web sites. "Tables weren't invented yet, so we pre-formatted the text and counted out the spaces between lines to approximate columns." I think...
Fresh New Spaces - a Flickr Pool
Inspiring group on Flickr views somewhat like a home magazine. Unfortunately most of the ideas are pretty tough to emulate in the concrete drudgery of Taiwan. Fresh New Spaces...
Old USSR Posters
A small collection of posters from post war era of later 1940s and early 1950s....
台灣土製小劇場歌舞伎
I love the English translation from their site detailing their new theatre company: Two young Taiwanese poets decided to launch The Theater company of Lee Qing Zhao the Private in January 2006, while Liu traveled alone in Tokyo and...
R.I.P. The Broadsheet
"In an age where information is gulped down and digested more rapidly via multimedia channels, the traditional printed publication must evolve to avoid extinction. So, what next? We will see more and more A4, and possibly A5 titles akin...
Interview with Kim Jin
Kim Jin is the chief of LG Electronics’ mobile phone design lab. ""Designers must see many things, and must experience many things to raise their sense appreciation. It doesn’t need much money. You just have to do the town-watching [...]...
Lunch in the Philippines
Poor shot of what was a nice lunch yesterday in Taipei - it felt like being in the Philippines as the community was out enjoying their one day off of the week. All the food was quite good though...
The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
Something to enjoy with Catriona. "Focusing on building actual models with real bricks, The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own...
Interview with the designer of Lumix SLR camera
"Ever since the LC5, my aim has been to design a camera that, to put it simply, 'looks like a camera.' For example, if you hand someone a pencil and paper and ask them to draw a picture of...
Interface and Society Conference
UPCOMING. Deadline call for works: 1st of July 2006 - see call Public Private Interface workshop: 10th to 13th of June. Mobile troops workshop: 13th to 16th of September Conference: 10th and 11th of November 2006 Exhibition opening and performance:...
666 - Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark,...
How to build a Mosquito trap
From Yun-An Primary School in Taipei: Found at DIY Happy where you can read the full English translation....
Photos of Bangkok in the 1950's
An interesting photoset on Flickr: "My father worked in Siam (now Thailand, of course) for several months in the mid 1950's doing mapping and survey work. These are photos he took during that work, primarily around Bangkok." Photos of...
Teens Using Ringtone only Teens Can Hear
"They can receive calls and texts during lessons without teachers having the faintest idea what is going on" Creative thinking! "Teen geeks have retro-fitted a sound called the Mosquito alarm -- normally only heard by people under the age...
An Interview with Jesse James Garrett
It's unfortunate but not unexpected that the interview is viewable only in Windows Media (DevSource is basically a Microsoft mouthpiece), so if you are using a Mac don't expect too much in terms of quality. It took me a few...
What is a Splog?
A splog, the illegitimate lovechild of spam and blogs, is a website made to look like a blog by streaming fake posts. Instead of musings about politics and technology, splogs are filled with computer-generated gibberish meant to entice search engines...
Italia Font
I've been using Italia as the display and logotype for a weblog cum magazine that I have been working on recently. I like the shape of the letters at large sizes but the capital T is a bit wonky...
Jonathan Taylor Photography
Jonathan Taylor is an English photographer who has been based in Bangkok since the early 90's. I have been wanting to share his work since I came across it on flickr a week ago. "Well known for his gritty,...
No Good News
I had an insane idea Sunday. Why not start a site dedicated to reporting only good news. A web site with content similar to what you find in those "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books but injected with a bit...
Usability: it ain't easy
"With more advanced services rolling out across the planet, ease-of-use is becoming crucial to their success, but today's user interfaces aren't quite cutting it. Solving that will be a complex task, but the place to start is the users -...
Aesthetic Issues of sound art.
"A sound artist, then, is an artist whose materials include physical media, sound, and environments. A sound artist creates all of these, not taking any of them for granted. To a sound artist, the gallery in which her work is...
Project Management Tips
"One thing that derails projects is the lack of a discrete beginning or end. Projects either meet with dissatisfaction from their sponsors, or they amble on past deadlines as scope creep locks you, the project manager, into a lengthy and...
My Old House - Google Map
Please excuse me while I try out Googles Map API (better late then never). Too bad they have no map data for cities in Asia. Next up will be some way to hook this into plazes to automatically track...
User experience: A research agenda
"Over the last decade, ‘user experience’ (UX) became a buzzword in the field of human – computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. As technology matured, interactive products became not only more useful and usable, but also fashionable, fascinating things to...
Grobag® Egg™ Room Thermometer
"The colour of the 'egg' changes to let you if the room temperature is too low, too high or just right, helping you maintain a safe sleeping environment for your baby. No need to put the light on to...
Delicious Days
I've been spending far more time cooking these past months than I have ever in the past. Cooking and spending time in the kitchen is something we should all endeavor to do more of - it's a great place...
Conversation Notes on User Experience Design
The context of the following mishmash of ideas was from a planned conversation in last nights design class. The talk was to serve as a sort of recap of some of the things we had been talking about. "User experience...
Technology as an Enabler to Experience
During one of my last design classes (they are more me having a one sided conversation) I tried to reinforce the idea of technology as an enabler to customers/users/peoples goals, objectives, and desired experience. So often technology drives the experience...
Catriona's First Attempts at Painting
These are some Catriona's first attempts at painting with a brush (she's 2). She picks and mixes the colours, I clean up the mess. I like to try different things with her. This time we would make sounds to...
The Effects Of Mobile Telephones On Social And Individual Life
"Whatever it is called, and wherever it is used, this simple, accessible technology alters the way in which individuals conduct their everyday lives. It has extensive implications for the cultures and societies in which it is used; it changes the...
Points From Teaching Last Nights Design Class
I drove out to Hsuan Chuang University last night to teach but unfortunately took a wrong turn and got lost. I did manage to get to the class just in time only to realize that I forgot my dvi-vga adaptor....
Teaching at Hsuan Chuang University
Over the next few weeks I will be teaching at Hsuan Chuang University a undergraduate class in design - this will be my forth year stressing out students as I teach only in English. It's an elective course usually filled...
How Was It For You? (aiga)
I've always loved the look of Chinese and Japanese characters for the way look more than what they are trying to communicate linguistically. I love the space between the letter forms and the shape of the characters. I love black...
Where Art Thou?
I haven't written much here in the past few months as I struggle to maintain a difficult schedule of client work, projects, family life, and writing for other weblogs. Since I am writing elsewhere I am trying a little...
Real Simple Website
I have for a long time been a fan of Real Simple, not so much for the content, but simply for the overall design of the magazine. The colors, typography, photographs, and their generous use of "white" really agree...
Jarretts's Rules of Buttons
Caroline Jarrett's 2 rules for labeling buttons (found via elearning post): Label the button with what it doesIf the user doesn't want to do it, don't have a button for it "The consequence of the two rules may be that...
Moveable Type Parent Category Display
I want to share this in the hopes that someone else who searches for an answer to the question I had earlier today might save some time. It's very simple but the answer isn't easy to find in the all...
Yojimbo your life
I have been spending allot of time lately writing for weblogs and performing some general research for other projects that I am working on. It's not unlike the the activities I performed when I was writing my thesis where...
Trying to keep Mobile
There seems to be some strange goings on today on the Inter-web here in Taiwan which is making me doubt my decision on signing up with Strongspace for offsite back-ups. Uploads seem to be a problem lately with even the...
Pop Wuping Launch
I haven't been that busy around this site of late as I have been devoting a significant amount of time over the past couple of months developing a new site which is linked in the footer and on my contact...
A Form Usability Checklist (ALA)
I'm a bit behind in hitting my usual reading material haunts but from my favourite web development magazine comes this fine article: "Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not more difficult. As usability-conscious designers, we can make our...
Christmas Books on IA and Teams
I received a number of books for Christmas and I thought I would share a couple. I'm not one for book reviews but I'm sure some of the thoughts contained in these books will make it into later posts. I...
Sick
I've been back from my mini-break but somehow managed to catch a terrible infection in my chest. Ugly stuff coming up. I thought I had left these kind of colds back in Canada years ago. Visiting a doctor here...
Web Design Guidelines (old)
I have been reviewing old documentation lately and came across this old guideline that I created in 1999. Six years feels like an eternity. These guidelines were for a large corporate web site redesign, the largest I had been involved...
Audio User Experience - Q&A
Kathy Sierra was nice enough to send me an email asking me some thoughts on audio/sound. I sometimes need this impetus to write down even the briefest thoughts on a subject (and these are just brief sketches). The following are...
Wacom Holiday Season E-greeting Card Contest
From Ian Chun who just started working at Wacom in Tokyo comes this contest tidbit (for Asia-Pacific residents only). So fire up your creative juices, set aside your client work, and create something cool or fun. The grand prize is...
Richard Etter's Melodious Walkabout
A project quite similar to my proposal Guidebot which unfortunately I couldn't get enough interest in the project to get some budget to take it beyond a simple exhibition poster. It's great that Richard Etter was able to take something...
PingMag's - The Website Development Process
We've been too serious and downright stodgy for too long. Maybe the power of fun is catching on, here is a delightfully fun, unique, and understandable approach to presenting the usually boring web development process to clients. It's over...
Taipei MRT Wayfinding (Signage Study)
I originally published this back in 2003 and found it accidently today and decided to resurrect it with a few changes. When I was in Grad. school I was sent to examine the inconsistencies in the MRT sign-age system....
Creative Jam
When coming up with ideas for the smenms project the team used methods somewhat like this. We had specific constraints in the project which we either defined or were defined for us. Within these constraints we set-out to come up...
Adult chairs exhibited in Taipei
Never underestimate the power of fun. Today one of my tangible interface experiments is being exhibited in Taipei as part of some industry showcase - apparently the President of Taiwan is going to have a look though after yesterday's...
Bag Usability Tip
Which bag is it easier to find things in? I have been spending an inordinate amount of money on bags since my days as a musician when it was vogue to have the newest gear to carry your instrument. I...
Toy Interface
Here is a good model for a successful interface, please excuse the poor quality photograph. I took my daughter out yesterday to try on some hats and naturally no trip to the childrens clothing section is complete with out...
IA 2.0 at UXMatters
"The typical information architect thinks about structure - how one item in a group relates to all the other items in the group and how that group relates to all other groups. In the early days of information architecture (IA),...
Planning for User Research Success (Apogee)
"Planning is crucial if you want your user research efforts to be effective. You need to think about what information you need to gather, and why, before embarking on any research. Good planning, well communicated to the client or project,...
Control-option-command-8
Thanks to Gary on Forumosa for this Mac OS X tip. Pressing the key combo "control-option-command-8" inverts the screen. It is cool in it's own right (windows look like portals to heaven) but might also be useful for those staring...
Design thinking as illustrated at a Taiwan hair salon
Updated to address my own and others criticisms. It's shorter, lighter, and hopefully improved. I am learning here so I do appreciate the comments - even the tough ones. In this podcast I babble on about "Friendy's" restaurant and...
Problems with iTunes Podcast submission
It seems on my inaugural podcast I may have spoke to soon about submitting my podcast to the iTunes podcast directory. It isn't possible. Here's why. You need to be able to purchase music from the iTunes store in...
My Short Adventure in RAW
I decided today on my usual Sunday morning walkabout to try shooting with my Canon SLR in RAW mode. I'm not sure if that's the correct way to say this procedure. I have worked with RAW files in the past...
Notes on (Audio) Iconic Interface Design
Notes of interest to audio interfaces from an aging but good paper, "The Use of Metaphors in Iconic Interface Design". "Icons are used extensively for communication purposes. The term icon has been adapted from its Russian origins -'ikon' meaning a...
Not Enough Seconds in a Day
I watched television last night and it inspired me (gasp!). Not real TV since I don't have cable nor do I have a real TV by Canadian standards, just one snagged from the dust bin. It was a show tapped...
MTPaginate Template Example
I have been using MTPaginate on 35togo for quite some time now but I remember having some trouble in the past to get it to work on pages that are primarily text. I can't remember why this caused so much...
A cognitive analysis of tagging
"... the beauty of tagging is that it taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost. At the cognitive level, people already make local, conceptual observations. Tagging decouples these conceptual observations from concerns about the overall...
Charlottetown - A Good Choice for Relocation
It's been a couple months now since I have returned to Taiwan from my 3 week visit home to Charlottetown. P.E.I. There are a series of selected photos on 35togo and my flickr stream. It's hard to say whether it's...
Mix it up.
To create creative groups of people don't rely exclusively on cohesion - bring in new people with new ideas and different ways of doing things. "We found that teams that achieved success -- by producing musicals on Broadway or publishing...
Shao Kelake launch
I recently launched Shao Kelake (小克拉克), a sort of mini-version of this blog which is also used in my sidebar on the right (Shao (小) is small in Chinese). When I started a weblog, or whatever the term was then,...
Design for the New China Markets conference
The Design for the New China Markets (Beijing, 1-2 December 2005, Peninsula Palace Hotel) is an executive forum hosted by the IIT Institute of Design and the State Intellectual Property Office, People's Republic of China. It is intended for leaders...
B!AS-International Sound Art Exhibition
I sorely missed a big event this past weekend in Taipei as Maywa Denki was performing at Luxy as part of the B!AS-International Sound Art Exhibition. I had no idea that particular exhibition and its associated YAGEO Sound Art Prize...
Beeps and blips
Quote:"Sounds are critical," said Donald Norman, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group and a University of California San Diego professor emeritus in the departments of cognitive science and psychology. "You have to spend the same type of attention to designing...
Back at it
As I started to write this for some reason the Creek Nickel song (not to be confused with the band Nickel Creek) "Back in the Saddle Again" (.wmv) keeps repeating itself over and over again in my head. On top...
Is It Real?
After decades of being surrounded by synthetic, mass produced, generic products, consumers are yearning for the authentic: For the tactile sensation of genuine materials, for the %u201Creal thing.%u201D For goods that make an emotional connection with the artisan who crafted...
Audio in the Computer User-Interface
"A number of studies have shown how audio contributes to the interaction process in order to provide a richer, more robust environment than with mere graphic feedback. Auditory feedback can present further information when the bandwidth of graphic information has...
Tagging for Fun and Finding
"We all grew up knowing about tags. We had tags in our clothes, we had them on our holiday presents, we played a game called tag, and some even used spray cans to tag their turf. All of these uses...
Dan Harden gets it
"If there's anything anyone in this field is chasing, it's Apple's quality and simplicity. Pick up an iPod, and you get it, you feel it, you sense it. But let's not forget that these things are made in China. It's...
Open Loops: Sleep and Productivity
"As we rob the night of sleep hours to get more things done, we are depriving our body of much needed time for it to repair and rejuvenate itself. Sleep is what we need to stay alert and focused on...
Think Big
"If you are a freelance or small Web design firm, I have an uncomfortable question to ask you: are you thinking too small?" Why Small Web Design Firms Should Think Big...
Change of habits
I'm sitting here in Bangkok drinking bad coffee and missing the ubiquitousness of fast internet that exists just about everywhere else. Downloading hundred's of new e-mail (most of which will be spam) and rss feeds here harkens back to the...
Circles and lines
In the west, we are indoctrinated to adopt the view that everything moves in straight lines - if you want to accomplish something, pick your objective, make your plan, and then set out in the direction of your objective. Stay...
Task Analysis examples
"Many of the day-to-day behaviors in which we engage without even thinking about them are really quite complex, comprised of many smaller, discrete, singular, specific sub-behaviors that we perform in a certain order. Consider "one" behavior done easily even when...
Visitor experience design
"This model moves away from the solely content or task-oriented approach as this tends to lead to system-centric designs. What is important here is that this model supports the content and task-oriented perspectives, as well as integrating research and immersion....
Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design
"People will complain about a visually complex page at the sight of it. But they will also complain if the information they need isn't immediately available to them when they start using the site." An article dispelling many of the...
Using Colors Found in Nature
Another good article from Boxes and Arrows: "Perhaps no other design element has as much influence on how we feel in a space (a website, a home, etc.) as color." "The World Wide Web is awash with sterile design solutions....
The Origin of Personas
"Personas, like all powerful tools, can be grasped in an instant but can take months or years to master. Interaction designers at Cooper spend weeks of study and months of practice before we consider them to be capable of creating...
E-learning teams
Don't really have a proper category for this old tidbit which I found reviewing some old papers. The following are a couple excerpts from a conference paper I participated in way back in 1998. That paper was the final deliverable...
Are you a workaholic?
"If you are spending a lot of hours working, is it passion or workaholism that's driving you? Chang, author of The Passion Plan, says that if your work is motivated by guilt, other's people's messages, or the desire to avoid...
sampling, memory, and the semantic web
"free content fuels innovation" - Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas "I get asked what I think about sampling a lot, and I've always wanted to have a short term to describe the process. Stuff like "collective ownership", "systems of...
More Powerpoint madness
Presentations.com recent review of Apples keynote reinforces my perception of how Powerpoint has created a legacy of poor visual communication. The author of the review gives Keynote 3 out of 5 stars and states that it is worth it for...
Doing The Right Thing: Apple UI history
The Register has an interview with interaction designer Gitta Soloman , who worked in Apple's now-disbanded Human Interface Group: "If you do this kind of work," says interaction designer Gitta Salomon, "everything bugs you. Your car, your cordless phone, your...
Start your Research
The expansion of the Internet and the development of the World Wide Web over the past decade have had a significant impact on research. The Internet can serve as a tool for finding information, a medium for networking and conducting...
Differences between Information Architecture and Information Design
I believe I gleaned this originally from Jesse James Garrett some time ago and have found it a useful explanation for both myself and others. Between the two names we have different concerns. Information architecture (IA) is primarily about cognition...
Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification
"This paper compares the qualitative method of grounded theory with the construction of faceted classifications in library and information science. Both struggle with a core problem: the representation of vernacular words and processes, empirically discovered, which will, although ethnographically faithful,...
It all costs as much as Hong Kong
Another good one from Travel Intelligence. "From its early days as the capital of the Kuomintang Republic of China, it has become used to being the Gorgon of Asian cities. One look at it and one is turned into a...
Surveying the variety of ways we display introductions to longer articles...
I love coming across articles such as this that remind of the mistakes I am commiting and some different approaches to fixing the problem. For some reason I have neglected to thoroughly examine this important detail in a recent project....
Refurbishment
Please excuse any display irregularities or outright disasters my Netscape and Mozilla using friends, I am finishing a "refurbishment" and have yet to flush out all the bugs. Having taken far longer than could seem humanly possible, Kaliber10000 has come...
Hello World!
The wonders of technology. I recieved an email with the title Hello to Clark telling me to send money. It certainly wasn't spam but a note sent from my Mother and Aunt while they were checking out the new iMac...
How jo boo jen
Work seems to have this occaisional habit of interfering with my personal projects. Shame on you work. So much has happened lately, a new iMac is launched which is lauded by some hated by others, Frank Shuster passes, I decide...
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