Seeing through expert eyes: ace decision makers may perceive distinctive worlds - intuition and experience in decision-making (Science News)
“Experts learn to perceive things that are invisible to novices, such as the characteristics of a typical situation. They make high-quality decisions under extreme time pressure. When difficulties arise, experts find opportunities for improvising solution
(tags: expert experience)

The [...]

I’m going to go out on a limb now and talk about technical stuff that I don’t really know heaps about, but I think is really interesting for Information Architects and Interaction Designers. I hope that people of a more technical bent will chip in and correct any errors I make and fill in any [...]

OK/Cancel - Greenfield With Envy
heehee… you’ll find this funny if you’ve been following the whole Adam Greenfield ‘why I don’t call myself an IA anymore’ story
(tags: informationarchitecture humour comics)

World Usability Day is 20 days out. Are you doing anything to celebrate?
If your work involves usability or user experience, you should be!
This is a great chance for us to make some noise and help spread the word that usability matters and that there are people like us who spend our time trying to make [...]

UI Conf: My Higlights from UI11 (justaddwater.dk)
couldn’t make it to UI11? Me either, check out Jesper’s great notes from the conference here
(tags: UI11)

The Dilbert Blog: Knowing When to Quit
“If everyone exposed to a product likes it, the product will not succeed… a product “everyone likes” will fail is because no one “loves” [...]

So, I finally took some time to go back an review the state of the categories on my blog this weekend. All in all, it took me about 2 hours to get things to a state that I’m now reasonably happy with. No wonder I was putting it off… it wasn’t fun. Quite an exercise [...]

If you’re going to design a product with a smart ass attitude, then you really need to make an extra effort to make sure you get it right. Ms Dewey, a recent entrant to Search Engine Land, has all the attitude, but none of the smarts required to pull it off.
So, here’s the idea in [...]

Steer well clear of all meetings …
Top tips for getting ahead at work (via the Guardian… I don’t remember if you need to sign in to see this or not). I can’t say I abide by many of these rules now, but perhaps it’s time for a rethink. Eh. Just kidding.
(tags: humour)

OK. So I’m finally almost brave enough to send you in the direction of my very first ever podcast that I did for the Office 2.0 Podcast Jam. (Assuming you haven’t wandered over there and had a listen already.
I’ve been thinking a bit lately about this ‘cult of less‘ that 37 Signals seems to be [...]

Sign the World Usability Day 2006 Charter
Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy-to-use as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, government, communication, entertainment, work, and other areas, ..
(tags: WorldUsabilityDay usability)