WebAim, a useful resource website on accessibility issues and topics for the Web, have a useful tool that simulates a screen reader, a device used by the blind to read/access …
IA Sydney meet last night
Many thanks to Eric Scheid for organising the IA Sydney meet last night, I unfortunately could only make it near the end, but was a pleasure to meet both Eric …
W3C Day at Evolve 2003
The Australian W3C Office are having a seminar titled W3C Day this coming Monday for the Evolve Conference next week in Sydney. The day will provide overviews and information on …
Neil Gershenfeld on Personal Fabrication
MIT’s Director for the Center for Bits and Atoms and lecturer of a class called, How To Make (almost) Anything, speaks to Edge.org about Personal Fabrication. The Edge interview which …
Interaction Architects or Designers
Bruce Tognazzini has started up a discussion on the working title of Interaction Designers by suggesting that perhaps it should be changed to a more relevant title of Interaction Architect, …
Think Secret on the upcoming OSX 10.3 Finder
Think Secret have uploaded a 5 part series document commenting on various changes including images on the upcoming Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther) Finder.
OOP in ActionScript and Flash
Joey Lott, the author of ActionScript Cookbook has written a first part series article in Web Dev on Object-oriented programming (OOP) in ActionScript for Flash MX. The article is an …
Experience Curve weblog
Experience Curve a weblog by Karl Long, is an interesting site which comments on how Experience Design (ED) or User Experience (UX) contributes to a business’ competitive advantage. The website …
User Interaction in Automated Systems
Ann Light has posted a useful link in Usability News to an IBM Research paper by D.?M. Russell, et al. titled, Dealing with ghosts: Managing the user experience of autonomic …
IBM Systems Journal on Knowledge Management
The IBM Systems Journal have a series of interesting papers on Knowledge Management topics including, Human and Social factors, Speech as a knowledge resource, Where did KM come from?, Strategic …
Standardising RSS
CNet News comment on the current dispute over RSS standardisation and ambiguities in its multiple versions. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is a technology originally developed by blog …
The Cannes Lions 2003 Winners and Shortlists
The Cannes Lions Winners and Shortlists for 2003, which were announced back in June, showcases some of the best advertising in the world, from commercials, outdoor ads, print ads, websites …
The world’s first cloned horse is born
New Scientist reports that the first cloned horse is born. Although genetically engineered horses are currently banned against competing in horse racing, some are speculating that soon the rules might …
Rob Kling’s introduction to What is social informatics?
Rob Kling, who has sadly passed away recently, and worked at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, wrote a thorough and interesting introductory journal document on …
Jeffrey Zeldman’s keynote from Seatle
Jeffrey Zeldman has uploaded his keynote lecture notes (Designing with Web Standards), from the Web Design World in Seatle, US last Month. His notes covers the important reasons for designing …