Signposts for the Week ending February 16, 2007
by Adaptive PathInspirational collection of paradigms that didn’t make it in The Museum of Lost Interactions.
Peter thinks Jakob Nielsen has finally jumped the shark.
A blog by Dan Lockton on The Architectures of Control. How “many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour. The same intentions are also evident in the design of many systems and environments. This site aims—with readers’ input—to examine and analyse the ideas and techniques of these architectures of control in design.”
Christopher Fahey muses on preferences.
Richard Hamming asked “Why shouldn’t you do significant things in this one life, however you define significant?” in his 1986 talk on You and Your Research.
Leisa Reichelt finishes her three-part chat with Bill Moggridge talking about the ingredients of successful design teams.
Yahoo Pipes intrigues us. Also, it leads Alex Iskold to consider The Web as a Database, and Nick Bradbury has been hacking it up.
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Russell Buckley picks The Best Writing on Mobile for 2006.
Escher’s “Relativity” in Lego.
How do user experience folks become product managers? Jeff and Chris have done it, and share their experiences.
Huh. DUX2007. With a focus on social media, which could either be great (prior events seemed awfully scattered) or terrible (it puts a big limit on the nature of experiences being discussed).
Geography is destiny. (There’s a reason so many innovative starup tech companies are in the SF Bay Area. And not in Europe.)
BusinessWeek finally catches scent of an innovation backlash.
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