links for 16 February 2006

oooh, there’s some good links in here today!

I particularly recommend the two presentations (Tom Coates and Matt Biddulph) and the Sofake sites (their own, Billy Harvey and the Chicken site).

Enjoy :)

• My ‘Future of Web Apps’ slides… (plasticbag.org)
  Tom Coates’ presention ‘Native to a web of data’. V. Good
  (tags: design web2.0 data)
• TrendyWEB | The Trendiest Web2.0 Page on the Net!
  There are some aspects of contemporary web (web2.0?) design which are duplicated across many sites, such as…. (V. Funny – if you’re not a designer currently using this style)
  (tags: web2.0 design humour)
• UXnet Home
  The User Experience Network (Note to self for future reference)
  (tags: usability design association)
• Interaction Design Association
  (tags: interactiondesign association usability)
• Chatsum Dev Blog
  on the web, nobody can hear you scream… until now!
  (tags: web2.0 application)
• The Application of Weblike Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse
  Matt Biddulph, XTech 2005
  (tags: web2.0 RIA reuse design,)
• Interaction Modeling – Boxes and Arrows
  Interaction modeling is a good way to identify and locate usability issues with the use of a tool. Several methods exist (see Olson & Olson 1990 for a review of techniques). Modeling techniques are prescriptive in that they aim to capture what users will
  (tags: interactiondesign modeling)

• BILLYHARVEY.COM
  Funny Billy. Sexy site.
  (tags: design inspiration, cool)
• MAIL ORDER CHICKENS
  i love this site in so many ways. Can’t describe, you must visit.
  you too can make a difference in a chicken’s life
  (tags: flash design inspiration humour video)
• sofake
  “the most professional web design company in the world”. I am currently obsessed with the way these guys design websites in ‘z-space’ (my new buzzword)
  (tags: z-space design inspiration agency US)
• Digital Web Magazine – Information Architecture for the People
  by Joshua Kauffman, includes an article on Practical Usability Testing
  (tags: informationarchitecture usability testing)
• AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design
  hrm. interesting that interaction design and z-space seem to be the topic du jour.
  some (many) would probably argue that they are mutually exclusive!
  (tags: interactiondesign usability)