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"Do you judge a hair stylist or barber by his or her hair? Do you judge a cobbler poorly if he has old beat up shoes, or none at all? Do we judge Dr. Phil poorly if he gets a divorce? And do we think less of Jakob Nielsen as an interface consultant if he seems to have no taste? "

When it’s crap, it’s crap.

Heinosen väitöskirja vaikuttaa mukavan luettavalta normaaleihin akateemisiin teksteihin verrattuna, ja aihekin on mitä kiinnostavin.

The winners of the first competition to identify the 10 best-designed application user interfaces by Nielsen are all unfamiliar to me.

Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences – the ”stuff” of our world – will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade.

Social media consists of the same content already in use: text, audio, images, and video. The difference lies in its ability to open up new channels of communication.

A key aspect of mobile operating systems of the near future will be the degree to and ease with which they can be customized with user interfaces. But what will also be key will be those OSes and UIs that give the best mobile internet experience. That doesn’t mean having the best browser, it’s a lot deeper than that. It’ll be which has the best widget platform, supports the best runtimes, and so on.

International Standards Organization (ISO) has published a set of standards and related process guidelines on ”ease of operation for everyday products”. The standards don’t provide significant educational value to experienced usability practitioners, but may be useful for those getting started, or even those with some experience who are looking for guidelines on best practices.

Jyri Engestöm kertoilee leppoisasti Jaikusta Keskisuomalaisen kesäjutussa.

If we’re serious about using mobile to help some of the poorest members of society, how about diverting international development funding toward providing a subsidized, fully Internet-ready handset for developing markets?

Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for designers and developers. I would try it, if only I had a Mac. [via Sashimi]

This one hits home, as I’m just in the middle of packing, too.

This explains it all.

Online social networks are inherently ”viral”, built through overlapping circles of friends, relatives, colleagues or acquaintances. In most other businesses, referrals and positive word of mouth come from good service. But to make almost any use of a networking site, you first must be connected to people.

Companies big and small are hiring people at a rapid pace for social media roles. But a year or three from now, will companies still be hiring for these positions?

Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.

The mobile web is an inexorable trend which embraces the Web but, inherently, represents grave challenges and opportunities to content neutrality.

In this book, Katri Lietsala and Esa Sirkkunen describe the great variety of practices within the social media and suggest some general principles how the traditional media could deal with the new situation.

”I’m in creative recovery. For the next 90 days, I’m going to think about, sketch, draw, and prototype ideas about mobile design and post them here.”

Jyri Engeström’s excellent slideshow on social media, sharing, Jaiku and the future that is already here.

Tapaus Nuevo Latino vielä kerran.

”The future of mobile phones is perhaps, not a mobile phone at all, but rather a contextually aware and active mobile magic wand.”

Social media has not yet been understood or embraced by most organizations and brands. Even if the ROI is hard to calculate today, it would be wise to consider the harm done by NOT having an organized approach to social media.

It seems that both consumers and design professionals are not yet prepared to work continuously for development of new and more socially responsive structures. The importance is difficult to understand unless experienced on a personal level.

If you want to download music legally – and if you are going to pay for it you might as well get it without any DRM copy protection restrictions – what are your choices?

”Facebook is like The Jocks and Prom Queens.”

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.

A slidedeck which graphically demonstrates why traditional ad models are bound to fail in social networks. It also illustrates the ways messages ought to be released into the wild if you expect them to survive in a group-forming environment.

Based on current trends for low-power chips used in devices like cell phones and iPods, we’re likely to see eight times the CPU power in handheld devices by 2010 that we have today.

Today, search is not a design failure, but part of the user experience. This paper looks at how search has changed as part of the user experience, and the role that good content design plays in making information easy to find.

The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. This changes the economics of feature additions. If you can’t destroy what you build, each addition holds the threat of clutter.

Most design professionals agree that to produce relevant design work, designers should have knowledge and understanding about cultures and populations other than their own. However, incorporating these issues into practices and processes has not been easy.

Facebook’s power derives from the ”social graph”, but how about the technology part?

A long and thorough explanation on why they should not, and if they sometimes may do so, when and how it should be done.

We change technology by creating it, and then it changes us as we use it.