links for 15 September 2006

September 15, 2006 in daily del.icio.us links with 3 Comments

  • Be Provocative
    yet another great post from Kathy Sierra with some great tips on getting (and keeping) people’s attention
    (tags: ux userexperience)
  • Kiva
    I love this. Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Go, now! Check it out. Let someone else get more value from $20 than you ever will.
    (tags: community socialSoftware)
  • I Don’t Think You Get My Point: The 5 Hurdles to Effective Communication
    This isn’t actually an article about design, but I think it’s really relevant to anyone who is trying to design a good and effective user experience.
    (tags: ux userexperience communication)

3 Responses to “links for 15 September 2006”

  1. Grant September 18, 2006 at 5:56 am #

    Kiva is absolutely tops. I came across it about a year ago. I’ve currently provided part of two loans to businesses in Honduras.

    The founders of the service are really passionate and have a great blog at:
    http://kivachronicles.blogspot.com/

    They’ve also funded Carl to set up shop in Uganda to teach programming whilst also developing Kiva’s site. Carl maintains another great blog (with tonnes of photos) at:
    http://www.carlsbigadventure.com/

    Very, very cool.

  2. Grant September 18, 2006 at 5:58 am #

    I should add that 50% of one loan and 30% of the other have already been paid back.

  3. Taylor Cimala May 16, 2007 at 10:27 pm #

    Just stopping by to note that the founder’s blog has been changed to http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/kiva-chronicles as we have moved it over from blogspot directly to Social Edge.

    Take care