Even a tech writer learns to use dashed lines for impromptu diagrams, but it takes a designer to delineate more of its uses. (I probably got this link from the essential xblog, which is a must-read in my RSS library.) Convenience and impermanence. But look at the size of that keyboard! And her happy smile! [...]
Tagged Oddments, WallpaperPenelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being connected to many other students who [...]
Tagged fiction, fiction writing, Forty-Odder, index cards, libraries, mentoring, penelope trunk, Susie Bright, TheAdjectivalCassidyThis paper studies the CVs of assistant professors of economics at several American universities and finds “evidence of a strong brain drain” and a “predominance of empirical work.” If you searched the CVs of assistant professors at top-10 IS/LS schools, what do you think you’d find? [via Marginal Revolution] Michael Leddy (of the consistently fun [...]
Tagged art, comics, education, Marginal Revolution, Orange Crate ArtFound 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 [...]
Tagged GUIs, prototypesI 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, [...]
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