People have been talking about Twitter for a while now, and at first it held little appeal to me. I mean, exactly how publicly do we *really* need to live. Are people *really* interested in that level of detail in each others lives?

Well… maybe, maybe not. But I’m finally going to give Twitter a proper go, for these two reasons:

Firstly – I think it’s something to do with the brevity/wit relationship that means that reading what people write is often genuinely amusing. (I’m definitely going to have to work at Twittering better)

Secondly – the immediacy is second to none. I thought I was getting behind the times when I’d let my RSS reading lapse for a few days or, heaven forbid, a week. Now just by not being in the Twitter chain I’m missing out of stuff. Not missing out is a powerful social driver. So, I’m in.

Question is – who else out there is Twittering now? Want to be Twitter buddies? Promise I won’t Twitter to often or too boringly ;)

• Chalk Board Wall Calendar
  I really want a wall that’s painted like a chalk board… either that, or a wall painted with magnetic paint so i can stick stuff to it. Maybe something like this chalkboard wall calendar (via http://usabilityworks.org/)
  (tags: calendar home planning organiser)

• UX Radar – User Experience Visualisation Tool
  Based on the UX Honeycomb, I have designed a UX evaluation tool – the UX Radar. This tool allows evaluating products/services and clearly seeing their similarities and differences from a UX perspective. It also allows seeing changes in the product/servi
  (tags: userexperience visualisation tools)

• IA Voice
  European IA Podcast channel
  (tags: ia informationarchitecture podcast)
• OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
  Sugar Interface is Designed to Foster Collaborative Learning among Children in Developing Countries. I’ve not had much of a look at the Sugar UI yet… must do that sometime soon.
  (tags: sugar OLPC interactiondesign UI)
• Design Comics Templates 1.0, Part I
  Sun have released a whole bunch of comic style characters and scenes that you can use, for free, in storyboards, presentations and brainstorming. Thanks Sun!
  (tags: comics storyboards personas)
• GUUUI – Visio – the interaction designer’s nail gun (2nd edition)
  How to use Visio for rapid prototyping.
  (tags: visio tools)

Happy New Year!

Yep, I’m back. I took a bit of an unscheduled break over the Christmas period to de-mush my brain after a pretty big year, but am back and fresh as a daisy now – stay tuned! A real post is coming any time soon! :)