Gleanings: Experience Design and glow-in-the-dark rabbits

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IA & DESIGN MATTERS

article on experience design

User Experience and Interface Design Resources

from SIGIA
“For those of you interested in paper prototyping and evaluating with prototypes in general, you might find some useful tips in the following paper. Showing it’s age a little bit (it came out a bit before the web hit town), but I’ve had good feedback on it’s practical use as a how-to piece.
(zipped .pdf, 4.3 meg)

NEWS

from NUA

Harris Interactive: Online kids now spend up to USD164 billion
A new study has revealed that online US kids, teenagers, and young
adults aged 8 to 24 are now spending at a projected rate of USD164
billion per year.

more articles about the changing face of the web.

from tomalak:
ZDNN: AOL quietly linking AIM, ICQ.A person familiar with AOL’s situation says the company is taking some steps
internally to make AIM and ICQ interoperable, but that it faces challenges
meshing the cultures of the two companies and also with the kind of users
signed onto each system.

NewMedia: Is Rich Media Worth It’s Weight in Gold?
Software designers and Webmasters keep pushing forward like scouts in the wilderness, claiming new audio and visual landscapes as their own. As a result, the Web now is a swirl of color and movement, games, three-
dimensionality, and virtual worlds–it’s a bastion of rich media. But there’s a rub.

APROPOS OF NOTHING
Mutant Rabbit Raises Controversy Over Genetic Manipulation