heyblog: Review: “Designing Interactions”
A critical review of the recent Designing Intractions book. The review criticises Bill Moggridge’s extensive use of the interview/narrative/story format in the book as well as the lack of clarity around the author’s relationship with IDEO, who are widely
(tags: review interactiondesign BillMoggridge)

Functioning Form - Bill Moggridge on Prototyping
When asked to provide the [...]

Vodafone were certainly well over due for a redesign of their website, and so I was pleasantly surprised when I went to look up some contact details and found that redesigned they had…. and what a nice change. Compared to previous design (you can see more or less what it was like here), this design [...]

Language Log: Persuasive words: the early years
what are the most powerful or persuasive words in the English language?
(tags: persuasion language content)

The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld. « //engtech
i haven’t tried this yet but I think it might be my weekend project. I have to use the Outlook tools for work and prefer to use Google’s tools for the [...]

It’s been a a while since I’ve gotten all excited about a mobile phone. Since I’ve been in the UK I’ve been getting by with a rather old Razr (awful, awful interface design) and a pre-pay account from Vodafone (don’t even get me started on how impossible it is to do an online top up). [...]

Top 10 Savvy Women in Podcasting, the Introduction (Podonomics)
excellent. Some listening for me in the next week or so!
(tags: podcast gender)

Usability Must Die
Usability is a tool that should be in the kit of all software designers/programmers. It only became a profession when people found they could charge £1,000 a day by calling themselves Usability Engineers [...]