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OK/Cancel Sketch Art for Katrina Aid
On our theme of pencils for today… Our friends, Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi, the brains behind the great comic strip, OK/Cancel, are auctioning a pencil sketch of their two main characters. The money goes...
View ArticleShould Nav be on the Left or on the Right?
On the often interesting Interaction Design Association discussion list, David Hatch from Macromedia asked if people liked their navigation panels on the left side better than on right side. He shared...
View ArticlePreparing for DUX
Josh & I had a paper accepted at DUX 2005, which I’ll be presenting in a whopping 5-minute time slot at the conference. If you’re going to be there, look for me at one of the many, many social...
View ArticleOK-Cancel: Putting Perfect Participants in Every Session
OK-Cancel invited me to write an article on recruiting participants for design studies. It gave me a chance to share some of the research we uncovered when we put together our popular Recruiting...
View ArticleClient in need of Spanish Usability Testing
We have a client (a major US travel-services brand) that is looking for some help with conducting Spanish language usability tests. They would like the tests to be in the US with Spanish speaking...
View ArticleDUX Redux: UX is growing up fast
A week ago I attended the DUX 2005 conference in San Francisco. This was the second of such conferences focusing on the design of user experiences, the first happening in the same city two years ago....
View ArticleReader Poll: What Tools Do You Use?
I’m curious. What tools do you use to get your job done? If you’re involved in user experience work, what tools, if they vanished tomorrow, would you sorely miss? Do you use Visio? Morae? Word? Take a...
View ArticleThoughts on Page Weight
Mike M. recently wrote to the PhillyCHI list: “K size” has become a topic of contention in my organization; some people feel strongly that a few KBs one way or the other can drastically affect how...
View ArticleCongrats to New City Media
A big tip of the hat to David Poteet and all the smart folks at New City Media for winning the contract to redesign Virginia Tech’s web site. We’ve long been fans of the work of NCM, most recently...
View ArticleTinyURLs in UIEtips
Ulf wrote about UIEtips, our email newsletter: First thank you for your newsletter which I really appreciate, but why do you persist on using tinyURLs? That can’t be user-friendly. Yes, they might be...
View ArticleThe Effect of Blogging in Your Company
The effect of blogging here at UIE is simple: we’re having more and better conversations with our customers. Case in point: Christine’s recent post about snap decisions started both and online and...
View ArticleCHI*Atlanta Meeting 2/23
I’ll be giving my talk, Scent, Search, and the Pursuit of User Happiness, at this Thursday’s CHI*Atlanta monthly meeting. It’s a members-only event, but the dues are exceptionally reasonable, being...
View ArticleWho Gets To Be Lazy? Users or Designers?
In response to my post, To Dash or Not To Dash, Dave Boggs commented: There are times when its appropriate ask the user for the information again, even though the ‘site’ or ‘system’ may have it. An...
View ArticleBeing a Proud Father
I can’t help it. I’m very proud of my daughter, Ari. She works for the non-profit Music for America and is in charge of a text-messaging campaign called TXTVoter which will help concert goers register...
View ArticleIA Summit Presentation: We Are Not Alone
I just returned from the IA Summit in Vancouver, which was a great time and tons of fun. On Saturday, I gave a standing-room only presentation called We Are Not Alone: IA’s Role in Optimal Design...
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Conference: OzIA 2006 Summit and Retreat
The OzIA 2006 Summit and Retreat sounds like a very cool conference. Thomas Vander Wal, Donna Maurer, Dan Saffer, and James Robertson are all cool dudes (and dudette) and on the program. And they’ve...
View ArticleTeaching Experienced IA Chicks New Tricks
At the last IA Summit, on my way to the workshop I was teaching, I bumped into Donna Maurer in the elevator. Donna is the only person I know from Murrumbateman, NSW (Australia) and one of the smartest...
View ArticleOZ IA 2006 Program Looks Great
The OZ-IA 2006 finally posted their program. An excellent line-up. Wish I could make it. If you’re going to be in the Sydney area at the end of September, you definitely should check this conference out.
View ArticleConference: User Friendly 2006, Hangzhou China, 11/3/06 – 11/5/2006
Our good friend Daniel Szuc reminds us about the upcoming User Friendly 2006 conference in Hangzhou, China, sponsored by the UPA chapter out there. Lots of excellent sessions from folks like Dan...
View ArticleVideo: Hans Rosling Using Very Cool InfoViz to Describe World Health
Hans Rosling is a professor of International Health at the Karolinka Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. At TED, he presented probably one of the coolest information visualization talks you’ll ever see....
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