If you think that graphic designers are the answer to the problem, you are seriously missing the user experience clue train...
At a *minimum* there needs to be roles dedicated to:
It's a profound problem in OSS that people consider having graphic designers the answer (hence the multitude of useless eyecandy as substitute for any real UI innovation). This problem is compounded by the fact that most of the people with the skills needed to develop good strategy and requirements (the foundation of good user experience) don't have coding skills. And in a culture of "don't whine, patch it" these people are shut out from contributing, and are turned off by teams who ask for code, when they should be asking for insight (something lacking in many OSS projects).
Docs should be semantically marked up anyways
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CSS for the LDP?
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I think any CSS detractors are missing the point - docs should be marked up consistently, with H1, H2, etc. Particular semantic types (like author) could be added as styles for particular tags e.g.
Adding CSS would be relatively simple on top of semantically structured docs.
Also add the buggers/Formics from Ender's Game - they weren't trying to take over, they just didn't understand individuality. The Ender sequels (speaker for the dead, xenocide, etc.) treat the Hive Queen as a deep character with interesting motivations and morality.
I'm using XP right now, and have a strange compulsion to wear long sleeves...maybe there's something to that 'MS denies me the right to bare arms' theory...
Walden Media already has options on all 7 Narnia books. Live action The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is already in production, with Andrew Adamson directing. More here http://www.walden.com/lww.html
Cause a keypress takes considerably less time than mouse movement, particularly if you have to switch from the keyboard to the mouse, then acquire the desired window, then click. Doubtful readers can search Google for GOMS analysis, a keystroke model for determining task times.
There are advantages to Expose, but speed isn't one of them.
Speaking of proprietary disks, the description of the UMD includes this nugget (along with a bevy of crypto/parental locking/drm)
"Repeat ordering system"
So my money's on a system that only allows you to play the game for a set time, and then you have to pay again. Interesting. If the original price point was low enough, it might even be worthwhile...particularly for things like trying out games. Maybe they'll learn from those self-destructing DVDs - rights-managed content has to be really really cheap.
well... Even if the OSS community is just people who contribute to OSS projects, having a workhorse like Photoshop run on Linux means that the overall Linux market expands. That means there's a greater audience for all those 1337 OSS text editors (and other more mature projects). That means that the OSS community has greater relevance to the rest of the world. And increased relevance seems to be a benefit, to me at least. Of course, some folks could prefer some sort of illusion of elite isolation instead of relevance....Mom's basement is good for that.
though you did say "Where do I even begin looking for useful/meaningful blogs?";-)
As far as a blogging index, try technorati, daypop, blogdex or the blogrolls (links to other blogs) from kottke.org rebeccablood.net (or other blogging grandparents) or check out eatonweb.com and the original weblog portal.
People have tried.
Jef Raskin has quite a few thoughts about new UI in his book The Humane Interface. You can see some of these in play in The Humane Environment, an open source project started by Jef to illustrate some of his ideas.
David Gerlernter also has some ideas about changing the UI based on timelines and visual representation.
As far as your wish about things staying open between powerdown and booting again - I'm not sure whether or not Apple's new user switching persists during shut down, but I think it may (have to go back and read up).
Finally, if you're looking for way-new interfaces, nooface blogs new and upcoming UI projects.
free markets don't require "everyone in every market regardless of the cost of serving that market". Free markets are free of regulatory restriction and provide whatever service the market will buy, at whatever pricepoint the market will buy it at. If the pricepoint the market is willing to pay is less than the cost to provide that service (like wired rural broadband), then a free market would suggest that said service shouldn't exist.
That said, I support rural broadband, but think that wired rural broadband will not happen in a free market for a long long time.
For an insightful discussion on what makes a building a classic. You're right that overspecialization can kill a building. But Brand suggests ways of building that are flexible for future use...
When he decided that instead of 'web log' he would start saying 'we blog' (Peter was an early weblogger, from the Bay Area). Funnily enough, he's mothballed his site and isn't blogging anymore. Lot's of early webloggers have quit as the "blog as verbal torrent" kicked into high gear.
Well, in Sundiver, the book you remember, heat is absorbed and used to generate power for the laser - the key being superefficient power generation, which we don't have today.
How can you keep your current and future work in the Xanth world from becoming commercially-driven drivel? I stopped reading Xanth books when they started to seem forced - written for the fans, written for the publisher, no longer written for yourself. Sure, they were still full of atrocious puns, and some ridiculously funny situations, but the depth seemed lacking. That was in the early 90s. Anything improved? Or am I mistaken, and you're still as engaged as ever, and not a victim (like Frank Herbert) of publishers demanding new books with an established fan base.
"A Spell for Chameleon" was the first book I ever bought with my own money (at age 11 or so). Somehow the early 90s Xanth work didn't stack up for me. It wasn't just that I have grown personally - I re-read "ASfC" just a couple years ago and still enjoyed it. Maybe I'll have to check out the latest opus and see if anything's changed (or if I have...).
The cognitive demand for making a decision needs to be commensurate with the decision being made. So having to think about spending a nickel or dime generally isn't worth my time - that financial amount isn't worth thinking about.
The consequence is that the content itself isn't worth thinking about.
Clay Shirky argues this point better than I've expressed it here....
The list isn't for HCI students (who should be familiar with the authors). It's for developers and designers who want to apply HCI/User Experience/Information Architecture concepts in their ongoing projects, and want an onramp.
Even the most applicable scholarly research (things that could live outside a lab today) are often written (as most academic papers are) for academic recognition - which is fine in a publish or perish world, but makes it hard for that research to be appreciated by folks without an academic bent.
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- user research
- interaction design
- interface design and rapid prototyping
- Content-based products like a website or CMS should add information architecture.
- usability evaluation
Note that on a small team, one person might combine a couple of said roles.Here's a diagram that shows an incomplete sampling of user experience disciplines.
It's a profound problem in OSS that people consider having graphic designers the answer (hence the multitude of useless eyecandy as substitute for any real UI innovation). This problem is compounded by the fact that most of the people with the skills needed to develop good strategy and requirements (the foundation of good user experience) don't have coding skills. And in a culture of "don't whine, patch it" these people are shut out from contributing, and are turned off by teams who ask for code, when they should be asking for insight (something lacking in many OSS projects).
I think any CSS detractors are missing the point - docs should be marked up consistently, with H1, H2, etc. Particular semantic types (like author) could be added as styles for particular tags e.g. Adding CSS would be relatively simple on top of semantically structured docs.
Also add the buggers/Formics from Ender's Game - they weren't trying to take over, they just didn't understand individuality. The Ender sequels (speaker for the dead, xenocide, etc.) treat the Hive Queen as a deep character with interesting motivations and morality.
<pun>rimshot</pun>
Walden Media already has options on all 7 Narnia books. Live action The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is already in production, with Andrew Adamson directing. More here http://www.walden.com/lww.html
Why?
Cause a keypress takes considerably less time than mouse movement, particularly if you have to switch from the keyboard to the mouse, then acquire the desired window, then click. Doubtful readers can search Google for GOMS analysis, a keystroke model for determining task times.
There are advantages to Expose, but speed isn't one of them.
Speaking of proprietary disks, the description of the UMD includes this nugget (along with a bevy of crypto/parental locking/drm)
"Repeat ordering system"
So my money's on a system that only allows you to play the game for a set time, and then you have to pay again. Interesting. If the original price point was low enough, it might even be worthwhile...particularly for things like trying out games. Maybe they'll learn from those self-destructing DVDs - rights-managed content has to be really really cheap.
well...
Even if the OSS community is just people who contribute to OSS projects, having a workhorse like Photoshop run on Linux means that the overall Linux market expands. That means there's a greater audience for all those 1337 OSS text editors (and other more mature projects). That means that the OSS community has greater relevance to the rest of the world. And increased relevance seems to be a benefit, to me at least. Of course, some folks could prefer some sort of illusion of elite isolation instead of relevance....Mom's basement is good for that.
A recent behind the scenes look confirmed that it will support RSS...
by most definitions
;-)
though you did say "Where do I even begin looking for useful/meaningful blogs?"
As far as a blogging index, try technorati, daypop, blogdex or the blogrolls (links to other blogs) from kottke.org rebeccablood.net (or other blogging grandparents) or check out eatonweb.com and the original weblog portal.
sorry, no time to code links for you....
David Gerlernter also has some ideas about changing the UI based on timelines and visual representation.
As far as your wish about things staying open between powerdown and booting again - I'm not sure whether or not Apple's new user switching persists during shut down, but I think it may (have to go back and read up).
Finally, if you're looking for way-new interfaces, nooface blogs new and upcoming UI projects.
free markets don't require "everyone in every market regardless of the cost of serving that market". Free markets are free of regulatory restriction and provide whatever service the market will buy, at whatever pricepoint the market will buy it at. If the pricepoint the market is willing to pay is less than the cost to provide that service (like wired rural broadband), then a free market would suggest that said service shouldn't exist.
That said, I support rural broadband, but think that wired rural broadband will not happen in a free market for a long long time.
is the intent of the 1.5 GB drive in the camcorder. Said camcorder also uses Memory Stick media for storing stills...
do the math
to illustrate, with a 10% difference:
Year 2003 KG = 1000 2003 grams
Year 2010 KG = 900 2003 grams
You currently weigh 80kg (176lbs)
if your mass doesn't change
in 2010 you will weigh 89kg
Doh...
>hey, we can even turn her off
;-)
You may well have that God-given geek ability to turn women off, though I'm unsure what speakers in her head have to do with that.
For an insightful discussion on what makes a building a classic. You're right that overspecialization can kill a building. But Brand suggests ways of building that are flexible for future use...
When he decided that instead of 'web log' he would start saying 'we blog' (Peter was an early weblogger, from the Bay Area). Funnily enough, he's mothballed his site and isn't blogging anymore. Lot's of early webloggers have quit as the "blog as verbal torrent" kicked into high gear.
His description of such a system is here. and includes a link to a company that now makes such a thing.
Well, in Sundiver, the book you remember, heat is absorbed and used to generate power for the laser - the key being superefficient power generation, which we don't have today.
Hey Pier - what is the interprobability of a crossover series? Say Xanth and Incarnations? just kidding.
How can you keep your current and future work in the Xanth world from becoming commercially-driven drivel? I stopped reading Xanth books when they started to seem forced - written for the fans, written for the publisher, no longer written for yourself. Sure, they were still full of atrocious puns, and some ridiculously funny situations, but the depth seemed lacking. That was in the early 90s. Anything improved? Or am I mistaken, and you're still as engaged as ever, and not a victim (like Frank Herbert) of publishers demanding new books with an established fan base.
"A Spell for Chameleon" was the first book I ever bought with my own money (at age 11 or so). Somehow the early 90s Xanth work didn't stack up for me. It wasn't just that I have grown personally - I re-read "ASfC" just a couple years ago and still enjoyed it. Maybe I'll have to check out the latest opus and see if anything's changed (or if I have...).
The consequence is that the content itself isn't worth thinking about.
Clay Shirky argues this point better than I've expressed it here....
come to think of it - geeks would probably be better off if they offered their dates the use of augmented reality goggles...
now that's augmented reality with a market!
cz
The list isn't for HCI students (who should be familiar with the authors). It's for developers and designers who want to apply HCI/User Experience/Information Architecture concepts in their ongoing projects, and want an onramp.
Even the most applicable scholarly research (things that could live outside a lab today) are often written (as most academic papers are) for academic recognition - which is fine in a publish or perish world, but makes it hard for that research to be appreciated by folks without an academic bent.