THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[July 27, 2003]
Clement Mok (Communication Arts): Designers: Time for Change - "As design establishes and defines itself as a profession, as the role of designers is better understood and appreciated in the culture at large, clients will be better able to use the services of designers to define and achieve their goals. As this happens, the influence of design professionals on every aspect of commercial and public life will consolidate and grow."
[July 26, 2003]
Webmonkey: "One of the biggest pains about making Web pages is having to keep track of which browsers support what features." (browsers that run on Microsoft Windows)
[July 24, 2003]
csmonitor.com: Internet project for poor attracts rich - "Just putting computers in front of those who need them is not enough. First, they must want them. That is the lesson of Little Intelligent Communities (LINCOS), the world's first pilot information and communication technology project in Costa Rica ..."
[July 22, 2003]
Nature News Service: Computer program detects author gender - "The program's success seems to confirm the stereotypical perception of differences in male and female language use. Crudely put, men talk more about objects, and women more about relationships. Female writers use more pronouns (I, you, she, their, myself), say the program's developers, Moshe Koppel of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and colleagues. Males prefer words that identify or determine nouns (a, the, that) and words that quantify them (one, two, more)."
[July 19, 2003]
Julie Albertson: One (Tech) Girl's Opinion - "In truth I'm only a minor-league technophile. My real area of expertise is usability -- research, information design and human interaction in particular -- but One (Usability) Girl's Opinion just doesn't have the same ring to it."
Helen Keller, 1928 - "If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!"
[July 17, 2003]
Dirk Knemeyer (Boxes and Arrows): Information Design: The Understanding Discipline - "Information design is not the same as information architecture; it is not merely an 'enlightened' version of graphic design; it is not somehow a niche component in interface or experience design; it is not technical writing. It is a broad and exploratory discipline that encourages research and development, understands that a galaxy of disparate tactics are bound together in creating successful information solutions, endeavors to understand people and the world as thoroughly as possible to enable better design and endeavors to identify and synthesize any discipline that contributes to better understanding."
[July 16, 2003]
Pew Internet and American Life Project: Gaming Technology and Entertainment Among College Students (about 96K as .PDF file) - "Young people in academic settings have been found to be heavy users of the Internet, and early adopters of new technology. This makes them an ideal group for studying trends in Internet and technology use and therefore and ideal population on which to focus the research of gaming use. While the study of new technology use can only claim to capture a snapshot of a continually metamorphosing geography, it is our hope that this early attempt to more clearly define the path of electronic and online gaming will provide a strong foundation for future research in the field."
[July 15, 2003]
BBC News: World's poor to get own search engine - "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine designed for people with a slow net connection. Someone using the software would e-mail a query to a central server in Boston. The program would search the net, choose the most suitable webpages, compress them and e-mail the results a day later."
[July 14, 2003]
Jesse James Garrett (adaptive path): The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams - "Before the abstract design can become a fully realized user experience, you must determine the specific details of interfaces, navigation, information design, and visual design."
Jakob Nielsen: "Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation."
BBC News: Scientists have found new support for the age-old advice to 'sleep on it.'
[July 12, 2003]
NewsFactor.com: Online Personalization Still in Last Place - "Personalization is one of the last components of the set of tools most companies implement for reaching customers through the Online channel, according to a recent Aberdeen Group survey. Aberdeen defines e-channel awareness as a group of four technology components: content management, search tools, Web analytics, and personalization tools."
Wired News: Cell Phones, Billboards Play Tag - "Point and click your mobile phone at a poster in London movie theaters this July and you'll be able to directly access the movie's Web page. Due to be launched in 20 cinemas in mid-July, the Hypertag technology will enable mobile-phone and PDA users one-click access to Web pages by pointing and clicking at advertising posters. [...] The Hypertag server manages the content linked to each tag, allowing tag owners to monitor and easily update what Web page consumers get on their phone when they click at the tag."
Nate Fortin (Cooper): Branding and the User Interface, Part 2: Tips on New Media Branding: Behavior and Color - "Remember that color is typically one of the primary elements used to control the visual hierarchy of a user interface screen. In other words, it helps define the relative importance of the information, elements, and interaction choices the user sees."
[July 11, 2003]
EE Times: Visionaries see flexible computers using less power - "Computers will be more flexible, intelligent and require less power by the end of the decade, according to engineering groups that met here [Munich] to ponder the future of computing."
Wired News: New Memory That Doesn't Forget - "With both Motorola and IBM firmly lined up behind a single contender, the five-year search for a 'universal RAM' technology offering a combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access appears to be all but over. [...] Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM [magnetoresistive random access memory] uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology based on the same laws of physics that enabled the creation of audio and videotape recorders as well as hard drives."
[July 10, 2003]
NewScientist.com: Nanotechnology may create new organs - "Now, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School have used computers to design branching networks of venous and arterial capillaries, which start at three millimetres wide and reach a fineness of just 10 microns."
Wired.com: "The fledgling art of using 3-D computer games to make animated movies is coming of age."
[July 07, 2003]
Frank Petronio, photographer - "Design and content should be interwoven to a greater degree than they usually are. The best results come from designers who can write copy, writers who can photograph, and photographers that can build websites."
Early Office Museum Exhibits - "Research on the evolution of early office technology based on original documents and artifacts."
Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman: Iraq maps: Why reinvent the scrollbar? - "One of the things I like most about working in online news is the fact that the medium is still young enough to require a lot of experimentation - we don't really know yet what the ideal design is for standard article pages, let alone interactive graphics and multimedia."
[July 02, 2003]
Henrik Olsen (GUUUI): Personas and the customer-decision making process - "With this case study I want to show how our team used the concept of personas - fictional, representative user archetypes - and the customer decision-making process model in a project, in order to capture the nature of customers and their needs and concerns as they progress through the customer decision-making process."
Intranet Journal: Intranet Content: Long Live the King - "An intranet is just another type of container. You can make it as elaborate as you want, but regardless of technological advancements and new software packages boasting 'bigger, better, and faster,' the heart of an intranet has remained the same over the years: content. Content will still exist without an intranet - whether in the form of electronic documents or hard copies - but an intranet will not exist without its content."
Don Hopkins: Why pie menus aren't ubiquitous?
"Technology and communications companies are cramming more and more capabilities into smaller and smaller devices."
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