from Rashmi Sinha’s Weblog: Creating personas for information-rich websites “Cooper’s suggested for persona creation suggests detailed interviews, identifying […]

I’ve been repriced: Blueprints for the Web is now 30 bucks at Amazon– last week it was twenty. […]

After a too-long absence, i’m back to bicycling to work as my main form of transport. amusingly, i […]

from BBC NEWS — Net beats books with children “Children apparently know more about the internet than about […]

I love jet lag. I’m writing this at 4.30 in the morning; I’ve already been up and hour […]

Updates will be infrequent, as I am out of the country for two weeks.

I’m leaving for Europe on wednesday, and bought my ticket through expedia. Today I recieved a travel guide […]

tim’s user interface guidelines provides one of the best descriptions about a common fallacy in usability testing assumptions: […]

How do people prototype? Mostly with visio, it appears. Check out Visio – the interaction designer’s nail gun […]

I first discovered the high line in a new yorker magazine article. I was completely enchanted… the vision […]

A Web-based Test of Fitts’ Law is hoping to gather data to reinforce/further understand people’s ability to hit […]

Does anyone know why sean connery made the Highlander II?

From Nua Internet Surveys Weekly Editorial “…the battle between the two companies wasn’t just about dramatic improvements in […]

After reading Bridging the gap with requirements definition I suddenly remembered my favorite example of design-urge overcoming user-centeredness. […]

Nadav points out these charming Diagrams of Skyscrapers

I had lunch with Bob Baxley yesterday. He, Jesse and I are all New Riders authors all writing […]

So, since I’m digging through old photos, I guess I’ll share this one. Good for a giggle. Let’s […]

Jesee recommends Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace and when I searched for it online, I found […]

city search porn finder finds this food description a bit too sexy, i guess… “My favorite: a generous […]

Victor’s article Smarter Content Publishing shows what you can do when you’ve got strong IA underpinnings. Check it […]

Jeffrey Zeldman says “Writing a book is like doing drugs. You start out happy and end up dirty, […]

UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction Jenifer Tidwell offers a new version of her pattern respository, in hopes of […]

I just saw it. jesus. it’s one of those well written good acting brilliant direction wonderful cinematography I […]

As I read through my copyedited pages, I am struck by my various ticks (writing is deadly for […]

As I work on my last chapter’s author review (to be mailed off tonight!) I start to dream […]

I dont’ visit Semantic Studios’ About Page that often, so I almost missed this: “In honor of the […]

Because I have been cloistered with thatdamnbook(tm) I didn’t realize round three of Click To Add Title was […]

As I read through Understanding How Users View Application Preformance one thing was very clear to me. Not […]

My sister writes: “Well, with the Blogathon nigh upon us, (it’s this weekend!) I wanted to give one […]

In the last few days, I’ve gone over seven copy edited chapters, rewrote another entirely, and author-edited two […]