Boxes and Arrows: Crossing Boundaries: 2005 IA Summit Wrapup: Overview and Pre-Sessions
The 2005 IA Summit in Montreal was great. Here is the Boxes and Arrows wrap up. I was one of many contributors to this effort.
{ Monthly Archives }
May 2005
Switching to the Mac from PC
Just wanted to point people to the article I wrote for OK-Cancel and the accompanying comic.
How much can we take from desktop design for RIA/AJAX design
I have been following w/ zeal Luke Wroblewski’s recent interest and thinking around AJAX-based applications, and the design implications that this “new” technology brings. He will be at an RIA event soon, so if you are in the Bay Area you should catch it. In his latest article, entitled AJAX & Interface Design, Luke tries to keep us from all falling into the realm of that early flash and java development where we entered a world of serendipity. In that early world, we let our curiousity and exploration out on our users creating an unwarranted backlash against the technologies, instead of against the designers who decided to use them so irresponsibly.
IxDG Resource Library
Yesterday, the Interaction Design Group (IxDG) announced the launch of their new Resource Library. What makes this resource so special is that it is a publicly contributed to, edited, annotated resource.
The IxDG press release is included here.
Wired News: Wired News Releases Source Review … Is this a good thing?
A recent article in Wired News is a review of one of their freelance writer’s articles over the last 5 years.
On the one hand, I think taking responsibility for what they publish in this proactive way is a good thing and quite honestly better than the “retractions” by MIT and InfoWorld of the same author, but I wonder if we are not becoming to discriminating. To be honest, I have no idea what too much means, but something about this feels less about finding the truth and more about not becoming another Dan Rather or NY Times.
Can we ever be 100% confident in our news sources? Should we be? Speak up if you are interested.
AJAX Summit (hosted by O’Reilly & Adaptive Path)
The AJAX Summit was held this week, hosted by Adaptive Path”>O’Reilly and Adaptive Path. It was by invitation only and included some pretty nice players: eBay, Google, Yahoo (Flickr & Oddpost), to name a few.
Now I know! … report back
Turns out it was a campaign for AIDS education. Nicely played! Nicely Played … indeed.
So yes, I do KNOW! … and so should you.
Speech to SMS – Samsung, what were you think?
Samsung has just introduced it’s new phone, the P207. It’s primary exciting feature is that you can talk into it, and it will create an SMS message for you (text).
My question for the ages is, “WHY!!!!”.
First off, I think it is damn cool that Samsung has put really good voice recognition (still requires discreet-word speech, though) into something as small as the average cellphone.
But after that little disclaimer, I think the idea is a bust. I do need help typing, and dialing, but not SMS messages. Speech is just way too public, and the whole point of SMS is to be a private and discreet form of communication.
Aesthetics in Enterprise Applications
I looked up Aesthetics on ye new wikipedia and found that there were sub links for music, architecture, visual design and some others. Aesthetics though tends to be most associated not with the outcome of a creation process, but rather a deconstructive criticism of existing products.
I’ve decided that of late I want to explore philosophically what aesthetics may imply when thinking about 2 areas of interest: 1. interaction and 2. the enterprise.