By dan | November 7, 2008
I feel like a headless chicken, running around Plaxo and LinkedIn searching for people to make connections with. What is the real point of social networking, is it just to find people you know already and share stuff with them, stuff you could share relatively easy in other ways. It all feels a bit empty.
When [...]
By dan | October 19, 2008
Here at Kwiqq we love working with web tools that make our lives easier. Whether it’s everyones favourites like Flickr or Dopplr or speciality applications like Protoshare. Recently we have started to introduce our clients to the benefits of online apps.
In an effort to gain a more accurate visual design style for our clients we [...]
One of the ways I increase my productivity when designing complex web applications is to not do anything!
Quite a few people will be familiar with the Chinese philosophy of not-doing so I wont elaborate too much but in essence it allows things to happen rather than trying to have to much effect over circumstances, read [...]
By dan | September 17, 2008
All this talk of ubiquity reminded me of a book I read recently called Digital Korea, in this book the author described how technologically advanced South Korea was with super fast broadband, online gaming, mobile payments etc. Also mentioned was the ubiquitous dream hall (sounds odder than it really is) which is Korea’s example of [...]
By dan | September 5, 2008
I have been playing around with the new Ubiquity plugin for Firefox for a few hours and can already see the massive potential of this project.
I discovered this project after reading Jono DiCarlo’s blog post about linguistic UIs, in it he was discussing the difference between using a noun as a connection for a user [...]
As a designer you have to be careful what language you use to communicate information to users. This could mean naming conventions in navigational elements or using easier to understand language to name links (based on my previous posts this may be naming at the genus level). Beyond this are the new interfaces beginning to [...]
For the second installment on the psychology of design, I would like to write more about the research behind my theory before concluding the series next week with how these principles can be directly applied to web design.
It begins with Eleanor Rosch, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. From field experiments [...]
Recently I have had to put some serious thinking behind how large numbers of users can most successfully be encouraged to progress through an interface. Using some research I have carried out I am going to write a series of blog posts on the psychology of design.
One of the major influences on the way we [...]
