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Remembering David on World AIDS Day
David Strunk Hummel died of AIDS on July 30, 1987, one more casualty in what should never have become an epidemic in the first place. I met David in San Francisco in the late 1970s, when we were both campaigning against the Briggs Initiative. He w...
Together For Never Photo Exhibit
Opening tomorrow in Miami and presented by local artists Team Turbo Sex, "Together For Never" is a surreal trio of giant photographs that would fit perfectly above your family's dining room table. Alexis Mincolla, one half of Team Turbo Se...
Congratulations to Citysearch!
When a long-standing Internet brand and IAC property redesigns, it’s bound to garner much buzz and attention. Citysearch, a pioneer in the local search market, recently unveiled the beta of their site redesign. Adaptive Path is thrilled to see the...
Photographer Alejandra Laviada
Mexico City most often conjures visuals involving a profusion of bright colors and bustling energy, possibly even tacky souvenirs or dice hanging from rear view mirrors. While her hometown's influence is mildly apparent in her work, Alejandra Lav...
Mecano
Ha, waar is de tijd? Mijn strategie toen, om Spaans te leren: met de thesaurus van WordPerfect de woorden één voor één opzoeken. Ha. Elders over misschien hetzelfde07.08.2008: Doe Maar (1), 13.07.2008: Muzieks (6), 20.03.2008: Muzieks op het wer...
MX Conference: great new thought leaders and still cheap!
First: Because of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., we’ve delayed the price increase for MX until December 5th. Register now for MX 2009 to get in while it’s still cheap, and use the discount code BLOG to get 10% off! Second: The M...
MX Conference: great new thought leaders and still cheap!
First: Because of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., we’ve delayed the price increase for MX until December 5th. Register now for MX 2009 to get in while it’s still cheap, and use the discount code BLOG to get 10% off! Second: The M...
Making Bad Experiences Good: How User Testing Saves the Day
The Latest “Tea with Teresa” Podcast We’ve all had those awful experiences like getting lost within a badly designed website (Why can’t I add another item to my shopping cart?), confusion around using a new product or devic...
Yahoo! OpenID SREG
I've known this was coming for some time now, but just spotted it 'in the wild' today. I worked on elements of the UI for attribute exchange between sites with Open ID (the SREG extension.) I tag-teamed on the...
The 48 Hour T-Shirt
Another Black Friday has come and gone in the United States and here's an offering that simultaneously lampoons consumer culture and offers a limited supply of tees. After all, few have done as good a job as Rob Walker whose book points out out ...
Mail Online the first national to allow you to rate the comments on their news articles?
Excuse the pun, but I haven't seem much comment around the net on the Daily Mail's latest addition to their comment functionality. This thread on This Is London is all I've seen about it I first noticed it over the weekend, but now users ha...
Del.icio.us op 1 december 2008
1 - Words and what not: Usability 100% of test users were not able to create a new page. FAIL. (tags: usability wikipedia) 2 - Engineering Windows 7 : Accessibility in Windows 7 (tags: windows7 accessibility) 3 - Screen Shots - Bulk Rename ...
Usability Toolkit
Das hier ist eine sehr gute Sammlung von verschiedenen (Word-) Vorlagen zum Thema Usability: Usability Toolkit. The Usability Toolkit is a collection of forms, checklists and other useful documents for conducting usability tests and user int...
jQuery sIFR Plugin
jQuery sIFR Plugin: Using jQuery to make sIFR easier to implement.
Verzet
Vanavond quiz in den Bal Infernal. ‘t Is altijd dat. Ik verwacht er niet veel van wegens (a) niet geslapen en (b) zo voos als een zeer voos iets, maar ‘t is altijd dat. Morgen een nieuwe uwged8, trouwens, en ik ben eigenlijk op zoek n...
Illustrator Christopher Neal
We asked New York illustrator Christopher Neal about the inspirations behind his work. Each job is different. Sometimes looking through old books and artist monographs will spark something. Other times, its just putting pen to paper until I get a...
links for 2008-12-01
Nick Cohen: Why doesn't anyone say: 'Not in Britain'? | Comment is free | The Observer "No one in authority ever seems to say to the bewigged authoritarian or uniformed goon: 'This isn'...
World Aids Day
Today is World Aids Day. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988 to provide governments, nationals AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations and individuals with an opportunity to raise attention on the g...
Aprendendo na conferência de planejamento
Bem, e já que aquitetos will be planners, eu vim ver o que e como os planners do their things na Conferência de Planejamento do GP 2008. Agora o Ken Fujioka está ali na frente introduzindo pra mim o mundo do planejamento. Acomp...
Light and Motion Seca 700 Cycling Light
Crossing the Williamsburg Bridge on my second night using the Seca 700 cycling light, I overheard an oncoming cyclist say to his friend, "Now that's a light." And what a light it is. Designed and manufactured in California by Light and Motion, a ...
5 essential Google Labs features to improve your Google Mail experience
A little while ago, Google launched "Mail Goggles" as a Google Mail Labs feature, which generated lots of press and blog exposure for the fact that you could modify your Google Mail interface using Google Labs products. I thought i...
Watching Apple & Steve Jobs get parodied on The Simpsons. Best line was from Comic Book Guy:...
Watching Apple & Steve Jobs get parodied on The Simpsons. Best line was from Comic Book Guy: Your turtleneck is blacker than your heart!
Accelerate your Prototyping
Ab heute ist es nun allen Interessierten möglich das kollaborative rapid prototyping tool RapidRabb.it Prototype Creator zu testen. Nach langer Beta-Phase kann nun jeder einen Account erwerben und seine Benutzungsoberflächen mit RapidRabb.it...
Semantic Modelling of User Interests
W ie kann man die Woche besser beginnen, als mit einem guten Vortrag? Einige von euch, liebe THS-Leser, werden sicherlich videolectures.net kennen. Wer die Seite aber noch nicht einzuordnen weiß, sollte unbedingt mal vorbei surfen. Das Konze...
Brzzz
Nee, nog altijd niet in slaap. Elders over misschien hetzelfde19.05.2006: Weer van dattem (1), 13.05.2006: Weelde (3), 12.01.2006: Microslaap (2), 02.10.2005: Oei (3)
François Macré - Thriller (reprise a’cappella 64...
François Macré - Thriller (reprise a’cappella 64 pistes) Andy Bernard’s self-made 4 part ringtone has nothing on this guy. (via kottke)
Friendship is Dead - See You at SXSW! (Core Conversation)
Way back in May I started noodling with the notion of a panel for SXSW in 2009. I’d say a few thousand people started noodling with the same notion, and then about 1300 of us took the plunge and submitted panels and topics to the Interactive...
How to Convert Music to MP3, AAC, AIFF or WAV With iTunes
I was trying to create an iPhone ringtone using Rogue Amoeba’s MakeiPhoneRingTone application. This applicaiton requires AAC files to be dragged in. “No problem,” I thought, “iTunes does AAC conversions.” And it does ...
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing North Atlantic Region Meeting
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote SensingNorth Atlantic Region MeetingFEATURINGMike Umansky from Applied Imagery onÂ"LiDAR Survey Comparison: Morris County, New Jersey vs. Ramadi, Iraqon Wednesday, December 3, 20086:00 PM Cocktail...
Voter Intent / User Behavior
In Minnesota, they are currently recounting the ballots in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. As part of the process, they are re-analyzing thousands of ballots that were discarded during the initial optical-scan machine count du...
How Bad is Bad?
John Gruber invites public ridicule to the UI design of this file renaming application. And yes, it certainly looks terrible, like a stereotypical case study in haphazard, bloated, bad UI design. But is the UI design really that bad? I'm not so s...
Holistic concept models: an ROI blueprint
I read a post recently that illustrated how concept models are rarely used in the right way and are often misunderstood. Are they really worth doing at all? Now seems a good time to expand on the tool that Dan Brown has popularised through his ...
A sad day for Information Design...
As a subscriber to the Info-Design mailinglist I received this sad message from moderator Karel van der Waarde:Dear list,This morning, I received a message from Piet Westendorp's partner that Piet passed away on November 19th.His achievements in I...
Del.icio.us op 30 november 2008
1 - Am I A Fireman Yet? Ik ben zó een bleitmuil. (tags: children death) 2 - Pixologic :: Turntables (tags: gallery modeling painting zbrush) 3 - How do actors memorise their lines? - Times Online (tags: articles acting) 4 - Prisoner Tat...
The hard science of soft science
I believe that soft science is on the verge of a swell of new findings and data, driven by the increase in online activity and the ubiquity of sensors. More behavior is being observed. And no doubt, someone will eventually compile and analyze the ...
The hard science of soft science
I believe that soft science is on the verge of a swell of new findings and data, driven by the increase in online activity and the ubiquity of sensors. More behavior is being observed. And no doubt, someone will eventually compile and analyze the ...
The New MTA Email Alert System - Replacing a real flood with an email flood
About a year ago, we had a deluge of rain that flooded the New York City subway system and basically shut several lines down completely for a day or more. The already crumbling NYC Transit’s infrastructure was simply unable to handle this a...
Zappa en ouders
Zo mooi: Frank in zijn woonkamer, met zijn ouders. Dat Life-archief heeft echt wel schatten zitten.
The iTunes deauthorisation conundrum
I wrote the yesterday about using a Linux live CD to recover data from the hard-drive of my spyware-riddled Windows laptop. One thing I couldn't do via Linux was deauthorise the machine for my iTunes account. Apple's iTunes has a limit of five ma...
Links for 2008-11-29 [del.icio.us]
Generic Work Process - v1.0 overview of methods for, what seems to be, a generalized user centered design process.
Und wieder: Prototyping Tools
Damit ein Tag so richtig gut werden kann, muss der Morgen mit einem Blogpost über Prototyping Tools beginnen, oder? Das ist einfach so. Ein Glück, dass uns da das Thema nicht auszugehen scheint. Über diesen Artikel bin ich eben gestolpert: My Fav...
Finally getting around to watching Hancock. So far it’s exceeding my low expectations.
Finally getting around to watching Hancock. So far it’s exceeding my low expectations.
Dear 4-day weekend, you’re going by too quickly.
Dear 4-day weekend, you’re going by too quickly.
Local Market Factors that Influence Design
While presenting our Influencing Strategy by Design workshop overseas earlier this year, Tom Chi and I compiled a short list of factors that can influence Web application design decisions in specific local markets:Connection speed (broadband penet...
Entrepreneur
Bart vat het mooi samen. Ik ben eventjes, eventjes, een paar jaar lang, baas van een bedrijf van veertien man geweest. Nooit meer. Nooit van mijn leven. Nooit. Nee serieus: nooit. Was ik niet van een trap gevallen en had ik geen jaar in hospitaa...
Del.icio.us op 29 november 2008
1 - 8th Grade Exam (tags: history) 2 - It's funny coz it's true (tags: productivity work procrastination) 3 - maps mmmm… historical maps (tags: maps history) 4 - Medieval Demographics Made Easy (tags: history resources...
Allerlei sociale en web twee punt whatever dingen
Ik ben de blogs aan het lezen, en godja: het was vandaag Barcamp in Gent. Waar ik niet naartoe geweest ben, nee. Zaterdag is een behoorlijk asociaal moment om dingen te organiseren: kinderen doen allerlei op zaterdag en zaterdag is de enige ...
Weblogs lezen
Wie heeft er eigenlijk tijd om al die weblogs te lezen, vraag ik me alsmaar vaker af. Ik heb vanavond voor het eerst sinds vorige week zondag mijn weblogfeedlezer opengedraaid. Benieuwd wat ik allemaal gemist heb.