Wil Shipley on Mac Software & Hype

Right from Wil's blog: Call me Fishmeal.

Find other conference videos at mprove: webcasts.

How to update a Firefox Add-on?

Stefan and I have created a new version of the OpenOffice.org Menu for Firefox with better usability for the menu to quickly navigate ooo's sites from Firefox. However, problem is that we cannot replace v1.0.4 with the new v1.1. See the discussion at Firefox Add-on site. Who can provide any help?

List of IA blogs

A list of blogs concerning information architecture is available at Stefan Freimark's blog.

Elements of Style

For a presentation I gave last week on the origin of patterns I found a quite condensed version of Christopher Alexander's latest book "The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe". The abridged version "Elements of Style" was featured by Wired in December 2003. You can find my version in English and German at Slideshare.net:

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(Let me know if anyone has high resolution images. Mine are a bit jagged.)

Jef Raskin found by Anarchaia

Anarchaia found and linked to my page with Jef Raskin's design rules. I'll have to check the other cool stuff collected by Christian Neukirchen.

interview questions and exercises

Interview questions for user experience design roles by Day Alexander and discussion at IxDA.

Related on LinkedIn: What are key questions for hiring managers and executives?

IxDA Patterns

The Interaction Design Accosiation has collected its discussions on patterns.
Find more resources on patterns (in general) at mprove: HCI Patterns.

James Kalbach's Designing Web Navigation

James Kalbach's Designing Web Navigation
Originally uploaded by vanderwal

Thomas Vander Wal is looking forward to read James' book on Web Navigation. Me too.

Produkt-Management ist...

...das Beobachten und Regulieren der Grenze zwischen Rot und Blau. (Siehe meine Notizen zum Vortrag: Kulturbeobachtung – ein Element dynamikrobuster Höchstleistung von Dr. Gerhard Wohland)

Visualization Methods

The 17^th User Experience Newsletter features “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods”. It's a wonderful collection and classification of different chart types for very different occasions... (read more)