Category: User Experience

  • Blogging’s impact on PR (and vice versa)

    The other day I ducked down to my room on the 8th floor of the Hyatt Regency Vancouver to get some money to buy drink tickets at the welcoming cocktail party at the IA Summit. Ran into David Weinberger, who’s been refining the plenary keynote he’ll be giving to kick off the official proceedings tomorrow.…

  • Using comics to illustrate scenarios

    I just spent all day in a seminar led by Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao, both currently at Yahoo! Local, on the subject of Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques and I came away from it with some great ideas about how to communicate web interface and functionality ideas at the early, prototype stage of…

  • Now we're talking old school

    Tanya Raybourn (Pixelcharmer) points to Waterfall2006 in her Field Notes blog: This one, Waterfall 2006, sounds unmissable. After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You

  • Posters for the 2006 IA Summit

    I’m headed up to Vancouver tomorrow for my first IA Summit. I’ll be presenting two posters there this time (one was submitted on our behalf by a former colleague). For posterity (and in case I lose the poster tube on the plane) here are links to the Acrobat files containing the two posters. Social Software…

  • Be more productive by slacking off

    I know it’s probably just because I’m racing around to get a bunch of things done between trips (to Austin, Vancouver, and Utah), but this article (Be smarter at work, slack off) sounds like the perfect advice to me right about now.

  • Let's say there are four modes of seeking information

    If we accept that it’s true that these are the “four modes of seeking information”: Known-item Exploratory Don