An interesting article by Warren Harrison from IEEE titled, Whose Information Is It Anyway?, comments on a presentation from ICSE 2003 (the International Conference on Software Engineering) which looked at …
Information Architecture and Findability
I came across this really interesting 2002 article by Peter Morville titled, The Age of Findability, which comments on the importance of information delivery and result relevance in information design. …
Beta testing TypePad
I’m currently Beta testing the forthcoming TypePad publishing system by the makers of MovableType, Six Apart. If you want to know what I’m up to, you can visit the site …
A review of Ani Phyo new book – Return On Design
There is a great review by James McNally of Ani Phyo’s new Return On Design book in Digital Web Magazine. The book is one of the first I have come …
Analysing language using DNA techniques
Here is an interesting article on the research by Geneticist Peter Forster of the University of Cambridge in Britain who used techniques usually reserved for DNA to support the idea …
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gets updated every decade
Every decade the Merriam-Webster Dictionary gets an update, this new edition version 11 includes over 100,000 new meanings and revisions with the Internet playing a strong influence.
The Film and TV Conference – SMPTE 2003
Shahane forwarded me an email on the SMPTE 2003 Conference & Exhibition next week at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. The Conference is from Mon June 30 …
IBM Developer Works asks users to test their new website
IBM Developer Works are previewing their new prototype website and are asking users to look at their upcoming site and comment on their structure, navigation and experience. They have listed …
Blog writing, privacy and community
Adrian Miles has posted a great blog entry on the topic of Blog use in professional practice, by commenting on Privacy and community writing, and discussing whether Blog writing should …
From a Computer-Centric to a User-Centric OSX Finder
Here is the Apple keynote by Steve Jobs at the WWDC, Worldwide Developers Conference from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, US available in QuickTime. With a few self promos …
Enter 64 Bit computing – the Intel P5, Apple G5 & Athlon 64
With the release of the sexy New Apple G5 in America yesterday, it isn’t surprising that news begins to circle the Web on the launch of the next generation Intel …
Adding accessiblity to Navigation with Access Keys
There is a great article by Stuart Robertson in A List Apart this week on the use of Access Keys titled, Unlocking Hidden Navigation. What are access-keys you ask? Access …
National Driving Test results
I’m not certain on how many people took part in last Wednesdays National Driving test, but I got asked today about my score… hehe I think I’m a good driver! …
The Image of Experience
I came across this really great article by Judy McFarland titled, The image of experience which comments on the use of Text and Imagery in design. Here is an excerpt, …
Designers and their communicative process
Luke Wroblewski, guest writer this month in Signal Vs. Noise and author of the usability book Site-seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability posts a few links also on a …