The other day I got this newsletter via emai about some new conference in UX. Reading through the newsletter, I got to a few sections that used a few of those shorted URLs, such as created by websites like tinyurl.com. While I think shortened URLs are great for interfaces that have a restriction on characters, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
An interactive example of Interaction Design
Friday, Jan 30th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: interaction design
Filed under: General Discussion, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: interaction design
How friggin’ cool is this!?
http://www.wickedproblems.com/
Wicked problems and the price of oil
Friday, Jan 30th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 4 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: energy, oil, sustainability, wicked problems
Filed under: General Discussion, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: energy, oil, sustainability, wicked problems
Working in an oil company has certainly opened my eyes to the complexity of the energy infrastructure in the US and the world. I’m sure that the majority of the people I come into contact with who have an opinion on energy consumption are unaware of just how complex it is to actually get oil [...]
Web design vs. Academia
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Education, General Discussion, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: business, Education, web design
Filed under: Education, General Discussion, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: business, Education, web design
Academia vs. Web design: The Journal on New Media and Society looks for papers on mobile communication and developing communities. Meanwhile, A List Apart posts an article on improving web design education.
Prepping for a talk from Johannes Birringer
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Technology | Tags: Johannes Birringer, performance, Technology
Filed under: Art & Culture, Technology | Tags: Johannes Birringer, performance, Technology
Over the past year or so, I’ve been mulling ideas over in my mind surrounding the confluence of dance and movement, technology, business, psychology, anthropology, design, architecture…just many, many ideas. Not only has it been hard to keep these ideas straight for myself as I develop them, it’s also been very difficult for me to [...]
“Apple Patents for Multi-Touch and Teaching Gestures”
Great Dance has published a post on Apple’s patent of gestures for multi-touch sensitive devices. Doug Fox posed the following questions. I’ve included my response to them.
My question for choreographers and dancers is whether you believe that Apple has entered into territory traditionally thought of as the domain of dancers and movement experts?
Yes, I [...]
Watch 50 Categorized Dance Animation Videos
One of my favorite websites/blogs that combines technology and dance has put up a list of 50 animation videos featuring dance and movement. Something to do while my cable gets cut off.
Below you will find categorized links to more than 50 posts on Great Dance that include videos of many different types of dance [...]
How to build a website: Step 1. Discover your purpose and scope
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: CMS, usability
Filed under: General Discussion, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: CMS, usability
Recently at work I’ve been tasked with reviewing a handful of internal, CMS websites for a single division within the company to see how usable the sites are and to come up with a few good usability practices that will work for all the sites. The sites are all in various stages of being developed. [...]
Pearls Before Breakfast
Monday, Jan 12th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, People, Urban Space
Filed under: Art & Culture, People, Urban Space
Recently a colleague sent me a link to an article about a social experiment run by The Washington Post. I thought it would be a nice thing to post it today, on the anniversary. In the experiment, on January 12, 2007, the paper stationed an incognito Joshua Bell, arguably the best violinist alive today, in [...]