www.verizon.com

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.

Link:
http://www.well.com/user/smalin/miller.html

Checklist of principles of good user interface design.

Courtesty of Bruce Tognazzini

Link:
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

Facets, and controlled vocabularies at the Getty research institute.

Link:
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/about.html#struct

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/index.php

Great article about process of desiging good products. Q& A with profs from Carnegie Mellon. Vogel is a professor of design and Jonathan Cagan, a mechanical-engineering professor at the university. Talk about the "Fuzzy Front-end" and challenge of making opportunity of innovation, creating a new and useful product/artifact that is a step forward (innovative) not merely, it works: enginneering, or it looks cool: design
Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/chalktalk.html

http://phoenix.herts.ac.uk/SDRU/Chetz/firstStudy.html#Overview
Haptic perception involves both tactile perception through the skin and kinaesthetic perception of the position and movement of the joints and muscles. For example, if we hold a cube, we perceive it through the skin of our fingers and the position of our fingers.

Cool stuff here at: http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=105 from v-2.

Keep an Eye on this program. http://bid.berkeley.edu/index.html
Professor Sack

Also see description of John Canny's work at: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0502/bid.html

and his web page: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0502/bid.html

From Jesse James Garrett, the *man*

All the talk of left vs. right and no mention of the comprehensive text and visual glossary of car/audi related terms.

http://www.uie.com/branding.htmFrom UI Engineering.

http://loop.aiga.org/

http://www.uiweb.com/other/chiweb.htm

Main page for AIGA experience design community.

Similar TOP Nav treatment as International Herald Tribune. As page scrolls, TOP Nav as layer follows down the page to maintain position.

Good historical article at Boxes and Arrows.

Bush has been hailed as the conceptual creator of “hypertext,” laying out the notion of the modern link 50 years before the web became a public phenomenon.

At 37 signals

I've been saying this for a while, and actually prompted the direction of my site:

"The disciplines of human-computer interaction, product design, and architectural design are converging". -John Canny

http://www.fortune.com/sitelets/navigation/listlinks.html

Jakob's original hint that maybe, just maybe usability might be improved by placing navigation on right-side of the page.

Piece (see page three) at Boxes and Arrows describes the Audi redesign by Razorfish. Usability showed that right and left navigation was not a large factor. Instead perceived affordances of nav elements were more crucial. Also, right-nav might actually cause users to focus more on the body content.

http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

Michael Bernard has conducted two studies, which sought to better understand users’ expectations concerning the location of common objects on web sites and E-commerce site.

Some of the findings show that people expect:
- Links back to the front page to be located top-left of a page
- Internal links to be placed along the left side and external links along the right
- Shopping cart, account and help to be located along the top-right side
- Login to be placed top-left
Links:
The article Developing Schemas for the Location of Common Web Objects

The article Examining User Expectations for the Location of Common E-Commerce Web Objects

Thanks to:
Henrik Olsen

Found this after designing my uedesignlab home page.

1. Information Spaces. McKnight (2000, p. 730) uses information space to mean "objects (real or virtual) to which the individual turns to acquire information”. Information spaces will increasingly be made up of heterogeneous formats. Dillon (2002) calls this the multimedia mix-and-match. The challenge is the “smooth blending of multimedia” in interfaces (ibid., p. 469). How can information displays in digital libraries enable users to extract meanings by mixing multimedia (sound, graphics, video, text, all seamlessly linked) for an interactive experience? Furthermore, new technologies will result in “wholly new forms”, possibly new genres of information that will only exist digitally; genres may also be consciously designed. In fact Winograd (1996) argues for this. Tools are needed to support the transformation and derivations of new genres from underlying information units by readers of documents and the users of digital libaries. The first challenge is to build information spaces that are heterogeneous and include support tools for shaping them.

The Ganzfeld (or the Wholefield, as the few of us versed in German call it) is the most compelling and intelligent collection of visual stories I've seen since RAW.
Stefan Sagmeister

Great piece on early graphic design in the US.

Try to make connection between this method used by Razorfish and William Massie's use of CNC for designing and building houses in Montana. http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002695.php
Idea of WORK > BUILT PROTOTYPE. Skip or combine process of WORK > (Document/Blueprint) > BUILT PROTOTYPE.

PwC rebrands for $110 million -- Monday

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000034.php

Ever wondered... well the guys at www.gracenote.com have licensed their technology to Apple and others.

Check out this article > http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207110

http://world.std.com/~uieweb/Articles/Personas.htm

http://webreview.com/1999/07_09/strategists/07_09_99_3.shtml

Controlled vocabulary resources, http://www.asindexing.org/site/

Method for using vision and excel http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002572.php

http://www.incent.com/community/design_corner/02_0524arch.html

great article on UCD process. this guys looks like he knows what he's doing. Jared Braiterman, Ph.D. www.jaredresearch.com