Signposts for the Week ending July 14, 2006
by Adaptive PathLots of people have their undies in a bunch about Christopher Fahey’s series of posts entitled “User Research: Smoke and Mirrors”. Part 1 is Design vs. Science.
UX Week guest Steven Johnson on The Long Tail.
Design school too much trouble? Follow Jamin Hegeman’s adventures in Carnegie Mellon’s Interaction Design program.
Need to satisfy your craving for more design methods? The UK Design Council throws down with this handy design methods reference.
Sell outs! Adaptive Path pals Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel make Geek Entertainment TV legit by joining up with Scoble and Podtech. Around here, GETV will always be remembered for asking a bunch of drunk people (including some Adaptive Path employees), “What is Adaptive Path?”
Sick of social networks? So are we. So when We Break Stuff begs companies to Stop Trying to Be MySpace, we say, “Amen, brother.”
Kathy Sierra asks Does the US Suck at Design? (Mostly.)
A follow-up on a signpost from last week, here’s an interview with Nokia’s chief designer.
An intriguing masters thesis: “The Effects of Ajax Web Technologies on User Expectations: A workflow approach”. (PDF) A quote: “The effect of Ajax in furthering Web development, then, is not only a reduction of load time, but also a change in how site interaction is handled.”
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