Last Friday saw the launch of arguably the most hyped interaction-design driven (and marketed!) product ever: the iPhone. And yet…where were Apple’s interaction designers? Those animations, the way the keyboard works, how the touch scree
Via Simon Willison, an interesting article - featuring the likes of Adrian Holovaty - that discusses a slow growing movement where newspaper are hiring programmers to help streamline work for journalists while at the same time creating mashups and o
I’m kicking off Day Four of UX Week with a talk on New Sources of Inspiration for Interaction Designers. When it comes time to design a product or feature, designers look to other similar products for inspiration. Or maybe, if they are sophist
In 2002 Starbuck's shared its guiding principles for brand building. Five years later do they still ring true?•Starbucks brand is its product, its people and its in-store experience.•Starbuck's promise: For curious and discerning adults, Starbucks p
Over the weekend I read an article on digg about a way to speed up Safari by removing an initial page loading delay. It reminded me about an article Dave Hyatt – one of the developers of Safari - wrote about the FOUC problem last Se
In the late 1990's I had the opportunity to chair the first conference focused on internal brand building. Almost a decade later this concept remains in its infancy for much of the business world. I'm reminded of this when I hear something similar t
Perhaps the two names most synonymous with the Internet, Google and Yahoo, have been rather lackluster when it comes to social networking. Yes, Google has Orkut and Yahoo has services like MyBlogLog, but neither can hold a candle to sites like MySpa
This basic definition of Interaction Design (IxD) illustrates the common threads between definitions crafted by esteemed designers Dan Saffer1 and Robert Reimann2 as well as the Interaction Design Association3.
Well-traveled and well-worded. He is a graphic designer (with whom you may be acquainted with unaware, particularly if you’ve been to a little site called TreeHugger), an art director, and an interac
Machine-based interaction is a common feature of Web 2.0 sites like Digg, Facebook and Dilicious, and these days it goes well beyond simple web feeds. An application programming interface (API) is ...
Tangler is an innovative group interaction and communication platform. It's fun, interesting and really useful. It's an instant messaging and communication app that is based around a concept they call ‘instant grouping’.
This book provides an introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing users to add interactions and animations to pages and is designed to guide users past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.
If you give users a high level of customization, a very interactive interface is the right option, users will feel more comfortable making all those selections.
