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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I just posted this to my UI design class discussion board:
Awe-inspiring info design...though the current menu is now only 6 pages :(
"Two years ago, Calvin Trillin wrote an article for the New Yorker about Shopsin's, an eccentric eatery in the West Village with about 9 billion menu items… Shopsin's has ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Found some interesting or otherwise time-passable things on the web related to prototyping and our discussion on Wednesday.
A List Apart runs deep-dish articles on web design. This article shows how paper is good for tabbed interfaces, widgets, and usability testing. He also suggests keeping a glue stick handy.
A List ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I remember reading a columnist in one of the Ziff-Davis mags, back in the mid-90s, lamenting the busting of the old 8.3 file-naming conventions that DOS imposed. With the new Win95 long filenames-with-spaces convention, he predicted that people would actually lose more files than find them again.
He used as ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
This post discusses the following readings:
Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534.Head, A. J. (2003). Personas: setting the stage for building usable information sites. Online, 27(4), 14-21.
<<In class, we wrote sample ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
This post discusses the following readings:
Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53.Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534.I thought ...
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