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lily

lily Originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. I almost missed our annual miracle, the calla lily in front […]

on captology

BJ Fogg “To increase the credibility impact of a website, find what elements your target audience interprets most […]

the trouble with translation

the trouble with translation Originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. At the global IA session, they talked about […]

At the IA summit

sarah is facinated Originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. day two of preconferences. (this on one seamntic web […]

a moment of silence

Macintosh Creator Raskin Dies at 61 “Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer Inc.’s groundbreaking […]

parking space fortune

parking space fortune Originally uploaded by maximolly. complete genius. imagine transforming something ordinary and random into somethign magical […]

Usability vs. A City’s Soul

Adam Gopnik rants against a new signage system in TOO MUCH INFORMATION “Worse than merely unfamiliar, though, the […]

Power

Many designers desire to go into management because they think that it will allow them to finally “make […]

Don’t skip the footnotes

The New York Review of Books: Europe vs. America is a well written, provocative article, but also delightful […]

Intuition

A while back I was reading Working Knowledge in which Davenport wrote “Intuition is compressed knowledge.” That phrase […]

If you speak Danish

It’s all good. Informations-arkitektur – fra navigation til søgning personally I have no idea what’s going on….

unexpected uses

When you build a tool, you never know what it will be used for. We used Flickr to […]

Wrong Question

Reading MSNBC – Does Your iPod Play Favorites? But just about everyone who has an iPod has wondered […]

Design properly

In Concept Cars Don Norman writes Want to design properly? Take concept cars seriously as design prototypes. Explore […]

Welcome to Argentina

Welcome to Argentina Originally uploaded by larspind. Perhaps the Argentinian technicians should confer with Canadian geese– they have […]

The Future Beckons

I may be biased, as I am speaking, but I think this is quite an interesting line up, […]

Designing Innovation

Blake over at AA-RF sent me this article How Companies Turn Customers’ Big Ideas into Innovations and there […]

was i for on you

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language / is a lovely curiosity. I’d love to see other […]

Save Me

Nick Finck added me to wikipedia:Christina Wodtke .Now they are threatening to delete me! Please save me!

Designing Motivation

Excerpt from Comic Wars, a book on Marvel Comic’s near bankruptcy and uncanny recovery: “[Jim] Shooter had a […]

secret identity

elastigirl Originally uploaded by nickf. apparently I’m elastigirl– and jeff veen is my partner/husband mr. incredible?? Don’t tell […]

This morning

The conductor was singing rawhide. — Sent from my Treo

how much should you care?

From DMI eBulletin – Viewpoints After Peters made comments about how men couldn’t really design effectively for women, […]

visualize this

10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris is an interesting […]