Publications :: Courtesy of InfoDesign

ACM Hypertext 2010: As we may have thought, and may (still) think

"(...) I gave a keynote address at the Hypertext 2010 conference in Toronto where I found a community somewhat under threat by other web research conferences but nevertheless alive and kicking. The organizers had asked me to consider where the field might have gone wrong and where it might go in the future." (Andrew Dillon ~ ACM Hypertext Conference 2010)

Future os Screens: Experience video

"Capacitive screens has now become a commodity for touch screen devices. Screen technology is now taking the next leap and the coming years imagination is the only thing stopping us." (Mobile User Interface Blog)

Designing Behavior in Interaction: Using Aesthetic Experience as a Mechanism for Design

"As design moves into the realm of intelligent products and systems, interactive product behavior becomes an ever more prominent aspect of design, raising the question of how to design the aesthetics of such interactive behavior. To address this challenge, we developed a conception of aesthetics based on Pragmatist philosophy and translated it into a design approach. Our notion of Aesthetic Interaction consists of four principles: Aesthetic Interaction (1) has practical use next to intrinsic value, (2) has social and ethical dimensions, (3) has satisfying dynamic form, and (4) actively involves people's bodily, cognitive, emotional and social skills. Our design approach based on this notion is called 'designing for Aesthetic Interaction through Aesthetic Interaction', referring to the use of aesthetic experience as a design mechanism. We explore our design approach through a case study that involves the design of intelligent lamps and outlines the utilized design techniques. The paper concludes with a set of practical recommendations for designing the aesthetics of interactive product behavior." (Ross, P. R. & Wensveen, S. A. G. ~ International Journal of Design 4.2)

5 negative perceptions about information architects and how to defeat them

"Information Architects often struggle to stay relevant to business clients and internal project teams due to their academic approach to achieving business objectives. Way too often, Information Architecture presentations fail to resonate with internal and external stakeholders due to how methods, findings, and solutions are presented." (Jonathan Lupo)

Don't Become A Digital Dinosaur: Design For The Space Between

"As UX professionals, we need to extend our reach beyond just experiences for the Web and mobile applications. A website or mobile app might comprise just one interaction?one touchpoint?in the end-to-end experience that users have during their journey to complete their goals." (Samantha Starmer ~ UX magazine)

Why Great Ideas Can Fail

"Designers are proud of their ability to innovate, to think outside the box, to develop creative, powerful ideas for their clients. Sometimes these ideas win design prizes. However, the rate at which these ideas achieve commercial success is low. Many of the ideas die within the companies, never becoming a product. Among those that become products, a good number never reach commercial success." (Donald A. Norman ~ Core77)

Jodi Forlizzi on Service Design

"Interaction design encompasses human interaction with objects, people, environments and systems. It's not a widely held perspective outside of the Pittsburgh diaspora." (Jeff Howard ~ Design for Service)

Possibilities Abound

"Wurman holds a special place for those who practice information architecture. He coined the term in 1976, in part as a response to what he identified as limited perceptions of the word design. The term information architect grew from his desire to know rather than already knowing; and from his ignorance and curiosity rather than his intelligence and assumptions. So it's not surprising that when Wurman presented keynote remarks at the recent IA Summit, he spoke of information architecture within the framework of a journey from not knowing to knowing. That's the magic of this business, he told us." (Thom Haller)

Emotional Design with A.C.T.: Defining Emotion, Personality and Relationship (1/2)

"In Part 1 of this two-part article, I'll be discussing how emotions command attention. Then, we'll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users. Emotions result in the experience of pleasure or pain that commands attention. The different dimensions of emotion affect different aspects of behavior as well as communicating personality over time. In Part 2, I'll introduce a framework for describing the formation of relationships between people and the products they use." (Trevor van Gorp ~ Boxes and Arrows)

Should You Copy a Famous Site's Design?

"Although successful websites typically have high usability, average sites can hurt their business by copying design elements that don't work well in other contexts." (Jakob Nielsen ~ Alertbox)

InfoDesign by Peter J. Bogaards, Founder of BogieLand

Events :: Courtesy of eventful.com

Sep 13, 2010: User Experience Design Masterclass at Rydges World Square

Developing engaging and interactive websites

One-day masterclass, 13 September 2010
Rydges World Square, Sydney

http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-D039OnUserExp-.htm

Sep 13, 2010: UX brighton 2010 at Sallis Benney Theatre

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Full details: http://2010.uxbrighton.org.uk/

Sep 13, 2010: Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA Course at Skills Matter Limited

Course: Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA
Trainer: Udi Dahan
Date: 2-6, August 2010
Where: Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DP

More Info or Book Online:
http://skillsmatter.com/course/open-source-dot-net/advanced-distributed-systems-design-with-soa/zx-962

Modules:
1: Distributed Systems Theory
2: Coupling: Platform, Temporal, & Spatial
3: Asynchronous Messaging Patterns
4: Bus & Broker Architectural Styles
5: SOA Building Blocks
6: Scalability and Flexibility
7: Long running processes
8: Service / Autonomous Component Solution Structure
9: Service Layer ? Domain Model Interaction
10: Creating High-Performance Domain Models
11: Web Services and User Interfaces
12: Case Study

The Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA will help you take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. New technologies make it easier to comply with today?s communications and security standards, but they won't magically provide you with a robust and scalable system. This course is packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and EBay.

Tried-and-true theories and fallacies will be shown, helping you to avoid costly mistakes. Communications patterns like publish/subscribe and correlated one-way request/response will be demonstrated, in conjunction with advanced object-oriented state management practices for long-running workflows. If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, if you are in charge of building a large-scale distributed system, and if you want to know more about how the big guys run their systems, sign up for this workshop!

Udi Dahan is an internationally renowned expert on software architecture and design. Recognized with the coveted ?Most Valuable Professional? award by Microsoft Corporation for solutions architecture and connected systems 4 years in a row, Mr. Dahan is also on the advisory board of Microsoft?s next generation technology platforms: WCF/WF/OSLO, the Software Factories Initiative, and the Composite Application Library & Guidance.

Read his blog at http://UdiDahan.com

Book Online:
http://skillsmatter.com/course/open-source-dot-net/advanced-distributed-systems-design-with-soa/zx-962

Watch this free video of Udi Dahan talking about CQRS:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/udi-dahan-command-query-responsibility-segregation/zx-962

Oct 17, 2010: BOLO 2010 - The annual agencyside conference at Hotel Valley Ho

agencyside presents one of the only digital marketing conferences exclusively developed for agencies. BOLO 2010 (http://bolo2010.com) brings new ideas, new knowledge and actionable next-steps to both help your bottom line and achieve the goals of your clients.

We realize time and money are both tight. That?s why we?ve designed a conference that?ll expand how you think and at the same time teach you hands-on how to manage digital more efficiently.

You?ll hear from industry thought leaders through keynotes, panel discussions and one-on-one meetings as we cover topics in social, mobile, search, emerging media, agency ownership, agency business development, analytics, measurement and more. agencyside has a proven track record for helping agencies become experts in the digital space.

Build a team of subject matter experts. Fine tune operations to sustainable profitability. Generate new business for digital marketing services. This event will show you how. Register now for BOLO! http://bolo2010.com.

Oct 2, 2010: InfoCamp Seattle 2010 at Seattle University - Pigott Building

InfoCamp is an unconference for the information community. It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which the agenda is created during the event -- so anyone can sign up to lead a session!

Join us at InfoCamp Seattle 2010 for an exciting weekend of talking & learning about:
- user experience
- information architecture
- user-centered design
- interaction design
- library & information science
- online search
- information management
- informatics
- anything relating to the intersection of information, people and/or technology

An invited speaker will kick off each day before we leap into multiple tracks of participant-led sessions & discussions.

Can't wait to see you this October at Seattle University!

Contact | seattle@infocamp.org | mailing list | twitter | facebook | wiki | register

Nov 1, 2010: An Event Apart San Diego 2010 at Westin Gas Lamp Quarter

Join Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, and special guests for two days of design, code, and content. Dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together 12 of the leading minds in web design for two days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment.

Sep 16, 2010: An Event Apart DC 2010 at Hilton Washington

Join Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, and special guests for two days of design, code, and content. Dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together 12 of the leading minds in web design for two days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment.

Calendar maintained by Mark Vanderbeeken. Read Mark's blog, Putting People First.