links for 2005-08-26 Creating Passionate Users: Stop your presentation before it kills again! Ditch the slides (tags: presenting presentations powerpoint keynote slides) More
Drag and drop Europe 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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