The world of mobile phones is a jungle of technologies with few established standards that, in some ways, resembles the early days of personal computing. Here the author presents an impressionistic landscape of this world, a glimpse of the near future, and thoughts on what it might mean for IAs.
Continue readingIn part two, the author explores several tactical issues in structuring and presenting content on the web, again looking to traditional retail design for inspiration.
Continue readingMeeting last weekend in Las Vegas, the city of designed experiences, the AIGA Experience Design group came together to discuss how Experience Design can be better integrated into business and how the practice has evolved and adapted over the last year.
Continue readingWhat if there was a new way of navigating an online information space we’ve all seen before but just never thought to use? I’m talking about subtracting away information the user doesn’t want. Content filtering is a much more natural way of sorting through categories, especially when the majority of your content is under more than one subject.
Continue readingA recent book captures a larger movement within the academic field of human-computer interaction away from its traditions of behavioral science and engineering towards “interaction design.” But re-labeling isn’t enough, it also requires a shift in philosophical foundations as well as professional practice, and the language of HCI is not the best place to look for inspiration.
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