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Posted in Data, content, ideas, links by solle on 22/05/2009

Heady growth in online advertising encouraged countless start-ups and traditional media businesses to chase the same business model. But the belief that online advertising would grow fast enough to fulfil all the business plans riding on it was “almost a collective psychosis”, says Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com.

London iA Google Custom Search

How to be better at digital, or interactive, or new media or whatever it’s called…

First they laugh at you. Then they hate you. And then you win.

…being obsessive about user experience and treating it like software

From Siri Hustvedt’s book Sorrows of an American

“If we run low on on empathy, we can always refuel on guilt”

Dieu seul sait quoi (God alone knows what this is) Doctor’s classification of injured First World War soldiers.

Designing site structures for intranets and websites

Creating site structures, especially for large intranets and websites, cannot be hurried. It needs to be designed with user needs and future change and scalability in mind. For this to happen there needs to be a plan and this plan needs to be created from sound principles. This article provides introductory material on how this can take shape.

User Experience = Management Development Visualisation (informationarchitects.jp)

Concept Maps

Including A Model of The Creative Process, A Model of Play and A Model of Innovation

Creating Inspiration

where I found Sky Catcher from Amsterdam

Persuasive web design (presentation from recent German IA conference)

Marrying Web Analytics and User Experience (Louis Rosenfeld presentation from recent German IA conference)

Flickr machine tag browser

Huffduffer machine tags

UXCampLondon is all go

The ultimate ways to test your site (Cennydd Bowles)

Structured Procrastination

Flairbuilder user interface prototypes and wireframes

Axure for Mac – coming soon (about time considering everyone I know who uses the existing version runs it on Windows on a Mac.

Lego Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Sets (launched in conjunction with present Show at the Guggenheim)

Fused Network – seems like good hosting

We made this – natty design blog

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Recent links

Posted in RSS, content, ideas, links by solle on 18/02/2009

Pick of my recent links from Delicious, Google Reader and my local bookmarks:

From Nieman Reports: To Prepare for the Future, Skip the Present ‘… today’s obsession with saving newspapers has meant that, for the most part, media companies have failed to plan adequately for tomorrow’s digital future.’

Pixelmator – image editing for the rest of us

Language Log

From Boxes and Arrows (quite old but hugely relevant in these difficult times) Getting hired

The ‘How to influence worksheet’

From Wikipedia page on Pecha Kucha ‘The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore, the 20×20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This results in a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds on a stage before the next presenter is up.’

From Cameron Moll 20 tips for better conference speaking

Persona templates

UX Challenge Conference

BBC Radio Labs How we make websites

How to spot Arial

Beyond Usability: Designing Web Sites for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust

From RWW: Vint Cerf: Despite Its Age, The Internet is Still Filled with Problems

Indexhibit

Aviary: Vector Graphics Editor for the Web

Rob Waller’s The Simpleton

Dan Lockton’s Design with intent

Sir Ken Robinson Speaks at the RSA