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widget morning

I was able to register www.widgetopia.net. I feel cool about the .net, since so far it’s me, manu […]

in the mood

from Life StyleMaven. Bring Your Target Market to Life “A Mood board is an innovative and fun tool […]

them guys

So Zap sends me this wonderful Rich Gold talk The Coast Guard and its Borders and tells me […]

mail

i wish instead of previous and next when mail is sorted chronologically they would use older and newer. […]

go learn something

AIFIA | Workshop: IA Summit 2004 “What are the key concepts that underlie a successful content management effort? […]

victor yes!

from NBS: IA as Conversation “In the past I’ve wondered about how taxonomies become navigation and did the […]

Quote worth noting

From an interview with Wim Gilles in Origin of Things, reviewed previously (line breaks mine, to aid reading): […]

Origin of Things

Can a book be deeply flawed and still be worth having? The Origin of Things delights and disappoints […]

mail this

John shares his article tool comparison chart. This is a handy little fellow, and a great companion to […]

ow!

I was so stunned by this monument of unusability, I had to share. Of course, any software that […]

widgets

Well, you guys found the little project i’ve started I see. Widgetopia is still too small a collection […]

design innovation

from The Guts of a New Machine (NYT, free refgistration required) ”The Dells of the world don’t spend […]

smart book, dumb design

Check it out: the fly-out menu uses transparency, which means you have this mishmash of type on type. […]

patterns…

Patterns for Personal Web Sites could nearly be “a pattern language for blogging”… or even “best practices for blogs”. Check […]

staying honest

I was reading Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches: A List Apart and along with the usual– […]

a great site map would do this

“Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.” –Mark Jenkins I think this […]

hobgoblins

Writing on the NYT redesign, Design Observer: Apocalypse Now, Page A1 “Enhancing legibility is invoked as a goal […]

got UCD?

I’m collecting diagrams of UCD processes, including this fine specimen from Nick of an interactive design process. Nick […]

no more wireframes?

Boxes and Arrows: The Devil’s in the Wireframes came at the right time. I’ve been thinking about wireframes, […]

Not Science, but…?

from HCI as Science | unraveled “As the class identified, HCI has plenty of current phenomena, but due […]

the soft touch

Digital Web Magazine – IAnything Goes: Soft Skills for Information Architecture Though it’s targeting IA’s, this article is […]

Hot find

These Tools are great for any kind of designer… there is nothing particularly IA about them. Really useful […]

error! or insult…

Love love love this error… I feel my heart filling with pity for this poor, innocent malformed request.