Signposts for the Week ending December 15, 2006
by Adaptive PathSimplicity and elegance are everywhere these days. Luke Wroblewski ponders The Complexity of Simplicity, while Joel Splosky riffs on both. Nick Bradbury also has a series Simplicity Isn’t So Simple.
Spend 12 minutes listening to this podcast interview with Sohrab Vossoughi, founder of ZIBA Design.
The New York Times on the experience of Smart Elevators.
Milton Glaser’s comments about women designers have sparked some, erm, interesting discussions at Adaptive Path.
Charlie Schick says what we think in this podcast interview about Nokia’s direction of integrating the mobile and internet experiences.
One Laptop Per Child Interface Guidelines.
Todd Warfel’s task analysis grid looks like a nifty addition to the toolbox.
Pretty. Slick. Pretty Slick. Play with Kuler, the color picker from Adobe Labs.
Wired picks Ten Gadgets that Changed The World.
Webcasts from the NEXT conference have been posted, but are only available until December 31. Talks from George Dyson, Anthony Dunne, Jane McGonigal, and many others.
ETech is open for registration.
Peterme blathers about designers excited embrace of user research.
Second Life avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians. Wow.
Find yourself on the Map of the Internet!
Find your ancestry on this map visualizing census data.
Thomas Vanderwal is visited by the Ghosts of Technologies Past, Present, and Future.
Don Norman’s on a roll lately. His latest in a string of provacative articles: Three Challenges for Design.
David Pogue of the NYTimes “defends” MS Vista from those saying it rips off innovations from MacOS X.
It’s our last Signposts of the year. Thanks for reading this year, have a happy holiday season, and we’ll be back in 2007!
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