I was on a panel at the IA Summit over the weekend titled ‘where does IA fit in the design process‘. I was staking a case for Agile UCD, and these are the slides I used to outline my case in 5 minutes or less (Of course, you could talk about this topic for hours, [...]

Kathy Sierra cancels ETech presentation due to death threats
I can’t believe that *anyone* would think this kind of intimidation is anything like acceptable. It makes me sick. Whoever is behind this should be named and shamed.
(tags: blogging)

Conferences have a mixed reputation. I don’t get to many, but I really love it when I can. I’m at my second for the month now (at the IA Summit), and I think I have a strategy that works when it comes to getting real value from a conference.
Here’s my six step strategy.

Fly Solo. Going [...]

Chris Messina’s Design Patterns on Flickr
what a great idea. I would say that I wish I’d thought of it, but thanks to Chris and Flickr I don’t have to! Wondering how others do ‘add friend’ - here’s the place to find out.
(tags: designpatterns)

Here’s a typical story.
A project is in its final phases when it gets to the part of the Gant chart that says ‘usability testing’, and so they do.
People come in and are asked to perform tasks, and so they do, with greater or lesser degrees of difficulty. And yet, something else is wrong.
It’s not so much that they *can’t* [...]

Twittervision
dead cool, if you’re into Twitter or interested in the minutiae of what people all over the world are doing. Be warned - it’s uber addictive.
(tags: twitter maps visualisation)

 
People say that it is some kind of Steve Jobs special sauce that makes Apple the company that it is, but as this Fortune article reveals, they reap rewards from using design techniques that we all have access to, and should *all* be doing. All the time.
These techniques include prototyping:
“One of the best pieces of advice Mickey [...]

People ask me what I think of Twitter and whether it’s really important or useful. I’ve already said a bit about it, but here’s a funny story.
A few days back I was flying out of London to come to SXSW. I left home a little early because I quite like hanging out in the duty [...]

It’s day three at SXSW and before heading out for a breakfast taco (yeah, I know)and the first panel of the day, a quick update!
After two days of panels I can say again the same thing I always say: If you want a panel that rocks you need to be concrete: give real examples, tell [...]

Links are the grammar of the web
Look at your web sentences again. Delete the first half and then turn the second half into a link. Focus on what your customers need to do, not on what you need to tell them.
(tags: content link usability)

Bokardo - Social Web Design » Five Principles to Design By
Design…is about [...]