ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
A BBC report in 1967 predicting the future world of Home Computing
From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
IDEO’s vision on the Future of Books
IDEO have created a nice concept video on their visions for the future of the book. Meet Alice and Nelson – different experiences linking diverse discussions, connected readers, multiple stories and community building around books.
Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta UI Heatmap
The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta team & community have published some findings on the use of the UI for the new Firefox 4 Beta with a heatmap of the UI. …
ACM Ubiquity paper (2005) on the challenges of Invisible Computing
Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing by Arun Kumar Tripathi Department of Philosophy of Technololgy – Institute for Philosophy Dresden University of Technology – Germany Technology becomes …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
Designing Alarms & Alerts on Johnny Holland
Johnny Holland have written another insightful article, this time on the Design of Alarms & Alerts. The article covers some fundamental interaction design principles such as matching criticality to obtrusiveness, …
Information Visualisation in Design Practice
A great paper from Joanne Mendel and Jan Yeager on Information Visualisation (knowledge) as a design activity in problem solving. This paper discusses the increasing complexity of problem solving in …
Service & Customer Experience Maps from Mel Edwards
A brilliant blog post by Mel Edwards on Service & Experience Maps.
What’s a customer experience map? It’s a graphical representation of the service journey of a customer.
Patternry’s a great source for UI design patterns
Patternry, previously known as The UI Pattern Factory (and for a while Pattern App), is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a …
Carolyn Snyder on Paper Prototyping in the design process
An interview by UIE’s Ashley McKee with Carolyn Snyder, the author of the definitive 2003 book, Paper Prototyping. It’s an interesting read and anyone new to paper prototyping will find …
An interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
I do like the concept that you have with the information scent, the semantic mapping. I think it definitely ties into the mental model that a user has when they …
A quote from Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …