links for 2005-08-26 By Nic Price on 27 August 2005 — 1 min read Creating Passionate Users: Stop your presentation before it kills again! Ditch the slides (tags: presenting presentations powerpoint keynote slides) More
Drag and drop Europe By Nic Price on 26 August 2005 — 1 min read How well do you know your European countries? Try dragging and dropping 45 countries to their correct places on the European map in this Flash-based online learning game. You have to be pretty accurate to get a right answer and there are no country outlines to help, only land and sea. I got 35 on... More
links for 2005-08-19 By Nic Price on 20 August 2005 — 1 min read GUUUI – The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break Is that a picture of Jakob Nielsen in the banner? (tags: interactiondesign visualdesign webdesign userexperience informationarchitecture) More
Smile and be happy By Nic Price on 19 August 2005 — 1 min read Out of the gloom a voice said unto me “Smile and be happy, things could be worse.” So I smiled and was happy and behold things did get worse. I don’t know where this originated, but it was on the pinboard at home when I was growing up with a big yellow smiley face above... More
links for 2005-08-18 By Nic Price on 19 August 2005 — 1 min read Core77.com / design magazine + resource Industrial Design Supersite – it says so on the banner (tags: industrialdesign productdesign design) Core77 – Visionary Stupidity “The Donald” has become as “visionary” a brand as any out there. And one cannot help but wonder how designers work with Trump as their client. (tags: design industrialdesign productdesign) More
I am constructively ignorant By Nic Price on 18 August 2005 — 1 min read Visionary stupidity: in which Cordy Swope discusses how companies go wrong with product design and development. My approach to design is as “consumer in context”. I leave the domain knowledge to the experts. The article argues that without a good dose of ignorance and objectivity in the design process brands become myopic to the point... More
links for 2005-08-17 By Nic Price on 18 August 2005 — 1 min read Social bookmarking – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Includes useful list of links to tools out there (tags: socialbookmarking socialsoftware wikipedia tools tagging tag tags web reference) LookSmart’s Furl – Your Personal Web Where better to bookmark a link to Furl? (tags: socialbookmarking internet web furl) More
links for 2005-08-16 By Nic Price on 17 August 2005 — 1 min read Technorati Weblog: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 5 Dave Sifry on The A-List and the Long Tail. Top blogs are up there alongside mainstream media in Technorati’s authority and influence ranking. (tags: blogs blogging davesifry technorati longtail alist blogosphere stateoftheblogosphere august 2005 statistics media) The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev Useful article by... More
links for 2005-08-15 By Nic Price on 16 August 2005 — 1 min read online information 2005 – speaker zone I’m doing a turn on content management (tags: onlineinformation events conferences) BBC NEWS | Technology | Total recall boosts PDA writing Interesting idea this – drag (or trace as the IBM researchers say) over the letters on an on-screen keyboard to form the words you want to write on... More
links for 2005-08-14 By Nic Price on 15 August 2005 — 1 min read Powerkiteshop Kites and everything you need to fly them with (tags: kite kites kiting powerkites kiteboarding kitesurfing) North Morte Farm Camping in North Devon (tags: camping devon northdevon campsites) More