links for 2005-10-14 Authority Peter Morville has a problem with authority. (tags: petermorville authority semanticstudios tags folksonomy taxonomy wikipedia findability tagging ia search lemur) More
links for 2005-10-11 A List Apart: Articles: Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks (tags: findability petermorville polarbear usability design ia webdev search web webdesign alistapart) UK’s only Money Saving Expert Loads of really usful tips and guides (tags: money personalfinance moneysavingexpert tips) More
links for 2005-10-10 Where It’s At — and Where It’s Not Fascinating! What do you call the @ sign in other languages? (tags: communication language) Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: Features :: Seven Technologies That Change Everything Crikey… Business 2.0, Web 2.0 and coming soon… Me 2.0, Desmond Tu 2.0 and of course Timbuck 2.0 (tags: business... More
WYSIWYG is dead, long live WYGIWYS Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future. In his latest alertbox, Jakob Nielsen explains how the concept of what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) is no longer useful or valid and is evolving into what-you-get-is-what-you-see (WYGIWYS) or “results-oriented UI [user interface].” He... More
links for 2005-10-09 PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer Having given up with my PalmPilot a few years ago I’ve been looking for a suitable replacement. I think I’ve found it! (tags: personalorganiser pocketmod paper productivity gtd gettingthingsdone) More
links for 2005-10-08 Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen Really useful site for seeing how content will look in different fonts. Thus beatnic.co.uk now in Trebuchet (tags: fonts userinterface typetester typefaces) More
Google reader I’ve been trying out the newly launched Google reader, which I was alerted to via my Bloglines subscription to a Google blog – oh my aren’t we just sooo post-modern 😉 You need a Google account (gmail address) to use it. Like gmail it makes extensive use of ajax for screen-based rather than page-based interactions.... More
links for 2005-10-07 start · The Design Encyclopedia It’s a wiki. Via Peter Bogaards newsletter (tags: design wiki encyclopedia) More
A few quick notes from IBF Live 2005 I met and listened to lots of new and and interesting people at the annual IBF conference this week. “The user arrives running”, and so did Ted Nelson, as Martin Leith put it, the “ht” in html. Ted shared with us his sideways view on the world. When asked to describe a computer we describe... More