Category: Design

Adrian Chong posted to iaslash a set of links to writings by Christopher Fahey about the “Smoke & Mirrors” of user research: Design vs. Science, Research as a Design Tool, Research as a Political Tool. Chong says: As designers look towards user research for the objective truth, Christopher questions the motives behind the research. He…

A client asked my opinion of the best b2b sites out there. I’m not good at answering questions like that, especially not on the spot. Perhaps I’m too much of a relativist. So I checked some old notes and polled my colleagues and here are some that stood out: Salesforce.com for its marketing front-end CDW…

Brief I’m-on-the-road edition: Digital Web Magazine – Code Reviews: Write Better Code Overnight At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3 – New York Times The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation? (“Designers, welcome to the brave new world of spec work.”) People and the Public (“throws an especially harsh light…

So maybe this will become a tradition: Thomas Vander Wal discusses the concept of being a Technosocial Architect (“To many people technology gets in the way of their desired ease of use of information. Those of us who design and build in the digital space spend much of our time looking at how to make…

In other realms, they say when it makes Newsweek or Time (especially the cover), a phenomenon is over. Let’s hope that’s not the case for the hipster design-y sites picked in this Newsweek Design Dozen article (forward by Chris).

Dan Brown’s “quick and dirty Visio callout”, an elegant solution to a common document-design problem Digital Web Magazine reviews Caphyon Advanced Web Ranking (“does a great job of tracking and reporting search engine rankings across websites”) Digital Web tutorial on ‘The Pinball Effect’ (example) UX Matters on ‘Deconstructing the Mobile Web (“The mobile Web is…