Signposts for the Week Ending November 10, 2006
by Adaptive Path“I often hear from young designers just getting into the business who are concerned that their portfolios only contain school work. Is that good enough? In a word: no.” Thus says Jeff Veen.
Still inspiring: Luke Wroblewski’s Lessons from The Tipping Point.
“Gone are the days of traditional usability testing,” says Josh Porter.
Kelly Goto on the movement towards mobile phone standards. Finally.
Paul Golding has a lot of good mobile device ideas: #102 (Ring Tone Experience), #103 (Game Boy in the Pocket Experience), #104 (Auto-Reverse Charging), #105 (Urgent Calls Indicator), and #106 (Who Left Me a Message?).
“This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short — stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, “The street finds its own uses for things.” ”
A complex visualization on, erm, complex problem solving.
From social networks to functional, pragmatic ones?
Russel Davies tells us How to be Interesting.