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- The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
Redesigning the Bloomberg Terminal would be any interface designer's dream. There's obviously much room for improvement since the interface hasn't changed for a long time, and the personas using it are quite easy to define. But the complexity an ...
Article - Dominique Leca - March 24, 2010 - 72 comments - 0 attachments
- Streams of Content, Limited Attention
In his seminal pop-book , Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of " flow ." He talks about performers and athletes who are in the height of their profession, the experience they feel as time passes ...
Article - danah boyd - February 25, 2010 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- Predictable Design
The $64,000 question in software industry today is: How do you transform a software design process into its ideal form—an objective, deliberate activity that furthers the cause of commerce—from its typically subjective, clumsy one, which always seem ...
Article - Nishant Kothary - February 22, 2010 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- Lessons from Ikea
Chances are you've come in contact with a piece of flat-pack furniture from Ikea . You may even have put a shelf or desk together with the help of an allen wrench and a single-sheet instruction manual. Ikea has successfully innovated in pricing, logi ...
Article - Alex Schleifer, Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - January 12, 2010 - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Microsoft demos impressive muscle to computer interface
Now this is pretty interesting. Microsoft has filed a patent for muscle-based control interface that essentially allows you to control computers or mobile devices using your muscles' electical activity. This video demo shows some pretty interest ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - January 03, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Influencing Business Strategy Through Design
Due in part to Luke Wroblewski's work, the great divide between the business side and the design side of organizations is shrinking. What started out as an internal training course for a group of Yahoo! designers has since touched hundred ...
Article - Luke Wroblewski, UX Magazine Staff - December 08, 2009 - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- Big Changes Coming to Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter today about some possibly far reaching changes: the phasing out of regional networks. This will affect over half of the 350 million Facebook users. While sites like Twitter seem to be releasing a fea ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - December 02, 2009 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Less is Better
David Heinemeier Hansson is one of the most influential voices on the Internet. He is the author of the immensely popular Ruby on Rails programming framework , is a noted blogger and media figure, and is elegantly opinionated when it comes to the ...
Article - Brad Umbaugh, David Heinemeier Hansson - November 30, 2009 - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- Failing Fast: Getting Projects Out of the Lab
“Failing fast” means getting putting applications out in the wild as soon as possible to learn whether they will succeed. This gives you access to early user feedback to quickly weed out ideas and methods that don’t work. Failing fast is a good thin ...
Article - Tony Hillerson, Alan Lewis, Scott Green, Ryan Stewart, Randy Rieland - November 23, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Hollywood goes open source, sort of
I recently saw J.J. Abrams talk on TED , and was literally woken up to a reality “of the future” which, ironically enough, is happening now. At some point he mentions that film making is now open for anyone who wants to do it. It no longer has to ...
Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - May 24, 2009 - 3 comments - 0 attachments