People
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Joy Mountford Interview
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2 min read
I’m happy to see a new interview with Joy Mountford, as I entered this whole field after hearing her lecture at New York University (during her tenure at Apple) over 10 years ago. The idea that someone with a psychology background was making computers easier to use was revolutionary for me. This is only a…
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Nielson’s Model of User’s Expertise
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1 min read
Plowing through research on navigation, just about everyone cites user expertise as a factor, regardless of the task being studied. I’d like a better, more quantifiable, way to summarize a user’s level of expertise in a persona. This could lead to generalizations about what types of interaction will work for certain types of user. Jakob…
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What Do Web Users Do?
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3 min read
Notes on What Do Web Users Do? An Empirical Analysis of Web Use (PDF) by Andy Cockburn and Bruce McKenzie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was published in 2000, meaning the work was done earlier, but I still found the results useful. They looked at the title, URL and time of each page visit,…
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Why We Love James
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1 min read
‘Of course — If I’m going to have a watch, I’m going to have a watch that can make graphs. Yes I realize this is funny. ‘ And via James: ‘the fly affords being peed on.‘
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Coco Chanel
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1 min read
“Women are not flowers, why should they want to smell like flowers?” – Coco Chanel
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Alex Wright
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1 min read
Just discovered Alex Wright’s site, agwright.com, I didn’t realize he kept a blog.
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New Book from James Lileks
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1 min read
Just browsed through James Lileks‘s new book The Gallery of Regrettable Food and it’s hilarious. I read through the first 20 pages in the bookstore and laughed out loud at every one. And it’s chock full of that sumptuous 50’s pastel artwork.
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Interview with John Weir
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1 min read
On designing iht.com: ‘I feel with sites like the IHT that radical change is often not good, purely for the sake of design. It is expensive, time consuming, requires change on the user’s part, disrupts the publishing work flow and opens up all the problems which come with software development.‘ @ Ordinary Life
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Interview with Adam Greenfield
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1 min read
On Razorfish Tokyo: ‘I can tell you that the energy in the office is like night and day compared to my old gig. It’s nice to have actual projects moving forward for actual clients–high-profile ones, at that–and a management structure that understands and values information architecture.‘ On the best IA tool: ‘The tool that most…