Steve Outing and Laura Ruel have summarised their 2004 findings of eye tracking technology using Eyetrack III and multimedia content.
The tests observed 46 people for one hour as their eyes followed mock news websites and multimedia content. The results are quite interesting.
Peter Morville has posted a summary of his summer research findings within Information Architecture, grouping university papers, readings and journals he has found most valuable and useful. His summary includes, Information Seeking Behaviour, Structure and Organization, Navigation and Search.
The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction will be published in 2005 and will be edited by Dr. Claude Ghaoui of Liverpool John Moores University, UK
The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab have a blog site on Captology which aims to inform on how computing products can be designed to change what people believe and do.
The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon.
James from Designweenie has commented on the brand & identity of BBEdit and the icon redesign.
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies.
The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.
A copy of the Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web discusses some concerns of the Semantic Way of searching information and ontologies.
Blog on Blog comment on the unique differences and lessons learnt about the Chinese translation of Laurence Lessig’s Free Culture book.
Some of those involved in the project from the begining included, Issac Mao and Zhang Yining
UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse.
Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise you are in this stage and what to focus whilst on it.
Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004.
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Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with some unusual experiments.
Mark Lyon has some useful tools that work with your Google G-Mail account including applications that let you connect to your account, upload emails and other tasks. BTW, thanks to Michael Angeles for the invite :)
I watched the UK Premiere episode of Carnivale on FX289. It is a great new television series about a travelling circus. The writing, opening titles and set design is fantastic. More information about the new series can be found in the HBO website.
It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently come across. A good friend of mine, Cafedave once told me that nothing beats Tahoma & Monaco, so I kinda stayed with these for years, but I think it’s time to try a few other cool ones.
1. Profont – available for Windows as TTF, Mac and Linux.
2. Proggy Font – a free and multi-platform alternative.
Some other resources include:
1. Programmer Fonts
2. All in the head – Retro
3. Typographi
Mark Hurst who runs the website GoodExperience.com has added some valuable and useful tips on how to increase your knowledge and management of customer user experience.
