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)

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And now for something completely different, I’m going to perform a little amateur brand analysis.

This all started a few days ago when I was on a bus and I noticed (either on another bus or on some other form of outdoor advertising) that the National Australia Bank seemed to have changed their logo….

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Ahhh… linky goodness! With special thanks today to Yahoo for releasing bunch of really interesting and useful UI resources.

• Pandora
  The Music Genome Project – find music you’ll like with music you like, then listen to it.
  (tags: music)
• The tag-cloud replaces the basic menu – Is this a good idea?
  more thought on Tag-Clouds and their place
  (tags: interactiondesign tags)
• Yahoo! User Interface Blog
  Yahoo are sharing their Pattern and UI library. They blog about it here.
  (tags: interfacedesign usability)
• Yahoo! UI Library
  The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX.
  (tags: resources tools userinterface interfacedesign)
• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
  A library of design patterns used by the Yahoo! library
  (tags: designpatterns userinteface interfacedesign)

More acquistions, even before products are deployed, smacks scarily of bubble-time but, given the influence of Adaptive Path, I’m going to give the news that Google have just acquired MeasureMap the benefit of the doubt. For now.

I threw my email address in the ‘notification’ form for measure map a while back but have never received an invitation, so all I have to go on are a few screenshots that I’ve seen on their site and elsewhere.

Here’s what I don’t understand… if I have a blog and Google Analytics, why would I want MeasureMap?

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