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Watch Jacob Burghardt’s “UX Opportunity Mapping for Knowledge Work Applications” presentation
Jacob Burghardt collated a lot of interesting thoughts on interaction design in his e-book Working through Screens, to serve as reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work (or what Peter Drucker called knowledge workers). He has been talking about his book and posted a few presentations on the web [...]
Posted in design, information technology, software Also tagged design, e-book, Interaction Design, Jacob Burghardt, Knowledge worker, Peter Drucker, social software, software interfaces 1 Comment
Alvin Woon’s “The future of social app interface design” talk at the Future of Web Apps
Alvin Woon is the UI lead for Plurk, a social network with a focus on short messages. His primary work is focused on designing user interface and leading aspects of usability research. Watch Alvin Woon's 'The future of social app interface design' at the Future of Web Apps London 2008...
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged Alvin Woon, behavior, design, Future of Web Apps, Interaction Design, interface, London, media, player, plurk, Usability, User interface, Web applications, Web Apps, Web Apps London, work Leave a comment
Howard Rheingold’s “Way-new collaboration” talk at TED
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged collaboration, Collaborative Projects, computer software, designer, digital media, Howard Rheingold, internet, Open Source Community, Open Source Software, social networking, software industries, TED conference, Wired, writer Leave a comment
“Built For Conversation: The Interaction Design of Social Media”, Will Evans’ talk at NYC IxDA Face-to-Face meeting
Social Media Networks, because they are built on the collective participation of individuals, can only be effectively guided by means of a researched and learned examination of social psychology. In this presentation, Will Evans discuss design patterns in social media site architecture and their impact on human behavior, and why interaction designers engaged in building social networking ecosystems must leverage sociology, social network analysis, and behavioral economics to ensure their social media site is Built for Conversation.
Posted in design Also tagged architect, architecture, behavior, designer, Human-computer interaction, IBM, Information Visualization, Interaction Design, Interaction Design Association, Interaction Designer, internet, IxDA, Modeling, Modeling Software, social networking, telecommunications, Vimeo, Will Evans Leave a comment
Information Visualization: Visual Complexity
VisualComplexity.com -- a project derived of an extensive research on the visualization of complex networks, which culminated with Manuel Lima thesis project Blogviz: Mapping the dynamics of information diffusion in Blogspace -- intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, trends Also tagged architect, Complex Networks, Computational Algorithms, designer, Information Visualization, Interaction Design, Manuel Lima, New York, Social Networks, Visual Complexity, Visual Language, Visualization Methods, Visualizations, World Wide Web 1 Comment
Internet in China: digital advertising spend to rocket
The Chinese love affair with the internet will see digital ad spend increase 40% to $5.2bn (£3.07bn) next year, making the booming Asian online economy roughly the same size as the current UK market, according to a report. The study by KPMG, to be unveiled today at the MediaGuardian Create in China conference in central London, estimates that the total ad spend on all media in the Chinese market will grow by 22% this year and 19.5% next year. By the end of next year, the Chinese ad market will be worth $37.85bn, a year-on-year increase of more than $6bn on 2007 [...]
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Watch Alexis Ohanian’s “How to make a splash in social media” talk at TED