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Goofing around with the new Google trends (very nifty!) Makes me want to start mapping events against these […]

Goofing around with the new Google trends (very nifty!)

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Makes me want to start mapping events against these trends– information design, which is much older a practice seems to come out of nowhere, and rather later than I would have guessed… and I wonder what IxD and IAI did for the terms, if anything.

Now before you get all upity, and start puffing out your chest in pride, try adding “usability” to the equation.

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You may have come a long way baby, but Jakob’s kids have come farther.

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    Marina loves pictures

    Interesting development.
    I think google is trying to create something like yahoo’s search buzz. Next year they might want to start a virtual stock market for trends, like yahoo doses it already.

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    kb

    Yes, but Jakob’s kids are either getting old, senile or both — look at the trend. Usability has been on a steady decline since the beginning of the graph (beginning of 2004).

    Is that because “usability” is overused, over-hyped or both?

    -kb

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