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 Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
Pen-based low-fi [...]
Tagged GUIs, prototypes 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 an example their production process, [...]
1. Tyler is unhappy with the new Fairfax City Public Library in Virginia.
2. Was the problem the laptops or how they were not integrated into the curriculum? (via Lifemuncher)
3. “The Place for Web 2.0 Refugees”
4. Handwriting vs typing
A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven’t compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there’s any overlap.
Keeping Found Things Found
“The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number [...]
infosthetics shopping guide for the data-addicted (via xblog) - I like the Rabbit best, but only because it’s so faux and useless. Does it respond to “SHUT UP?!?”
“Libraries Make Me Have To Poop” (sold out!)
My new favorite Firefox extension: Read it Later (via Web Worker Daily). Update: Replaced by Readeroo. I prefer the latter’s use [...]