Reviews
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"Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping"
by Jeff Lash | [3 comments]
“Experience design” doesn’t just apply to online design. Paco Underhill’s “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping” explores customer experience and consumer behavior as they affect retail and offline environments and in turn provides dozens of lessons for those in web development. more...
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2003 Dublin Core Conference Summary
by Madonnalisa Gonzales-Chan and Sarah A. Rice | [1 comment]
What is Dublin Core? And why would you need a whole conference about it? The end of September and beginning of October brought representatives from various countries around the world to a sunny and warm Seattle, Washington, host of the 2003 Dublin Core Conference. more...
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2nd Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
by Bob Baxley | [4 comments]
While most technology conferences are an immersion in the nitty-gritty of the technology with little thought about how that technology will ultimately be used, Bob Baxley notes that the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference was refreshingly concerned with the uses of new technology. more...
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AIGA Experience Design Summit #5
by Erin Malone | [3 comments]
Meeting last weekend in Las Vegas, the city of designed experiences, the AIGA Experience Design group came together to discuss how Experience Design can be better integrated into business and how the practice has evolved and adapted over the last year. more...
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An Open-Source Conference: BarCamp
by Anders Ramsay | [7 comments]
The BarCamp "un-conference" recently held in New York City featured presenters as participants and participants as planners. This community-developed event provided the opportunity for open-source supporters to share their newest ideas as well as float in-progress concepts. Read more about this unconventional approach to bringing together people and ideas. more...
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Calling in the Big Guns
by Will Evans | [1 comment]
In his new book, Luke Wroblewski lays out strategies and best practices for getting users past
your web forms and onto more important interactions. Will Evans tells us why reading this book
might help diffuse some of the opinionated discussion about form design decisions. more... -
CHI 2002 - Changing the World, Changing Ourselves
by Lyle Kantrovich | [2 comments]
CHI, the annual conference for ACM’s special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) was, as usual, packed with information, research findings, and hotly debated theories. In this article I’ll try to cover the events and topics that were most interesting to me as well as the issues that stirred up the most intense conversations during breaks or at social gatherings afterwards. more...
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Chicken Run: Summit Closing: Sunday
by B&A Staff | [7 comments]
Sunday morning found 240 tired IAs eagerly grabbing breakfast and pondering the chickens that had been set up in a little farm scene in the conference area of the hotel. All I can say is that a lot of pictures were taken of the chickens (and a few of them even "mysteriously" flew the coop). more...
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Conference Wrap-Up: "IA in Germany - Chances and Perspectives"
by James Kalbach | [1 comment]
In an attempt to bring IAs in Germany together, members of the IA Institute organized a small conference in Frankfurt on Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2005. James Kalbach shares an overview of the conference with B&A. more...
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Crossing Boundaries: 2005 IA Summit Wrapup: Overview and Pre-Sessions
by B&A Staff | [1 comment]
Beyond technology and technique, this year's summit revealed that the goals of information architecture are evolving beyond the usual ones of retrieval via search and browse. Boxes and Arrows shares some thoughts on the event, it's future and short summaries of many sessions. more...
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Crossing Boundaries: 2005 IA Summit Wrapup: Saturday
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
Session Summaries for presentations on Saturday March 5th more...
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Crossing Boundaries: 2005 IA Summit Wrapup: Sunday, Monday
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
Session Summaries for presentations on Sunday March 6th and Monday March 7th. more...
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Day 1: IA Summit 2004 Wrapup
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
This year's IA Summit, themed "Breaking New Ground," seemed to have the right mix of new and returning folks, a nice variety of interesting and well-attended pre-conference workshops and several tracks of presentations to suit the IA of every flavor. more...
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Day 2: IA Summit 2004 Wrapup
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
The second day of the IA Summit dawned with rain and storm clouds. But the weather cleared, the presentations were inspiring and by the end of the day, each of us returned back to our lives recharged and eager to build on what we had learned. more...
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Demolition Derby
by James Robertson | [5 comments]
Scott Berkun demolishes the myths that surround innovation, as well as providing a solid foundation for understanding how innovation really happens. If you are involved making creative, powerful ideas real, this book is a must-read. more...
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Design Is Rocket Science
by Clifton Evans | [10 comments]
We all need help in creating the Next Great Design. Clifton Evans finds valuable support for our work in Interaction Design even as he cautions that there is not a scientific formula for design success. more...
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Euro IA Summit Wrap-Up
by Deborah Gover | [4 comments]
The European IA Summit 2005 offered an outstanding line-up of speakers. Couldn’t make it? Find out when happened. In this article, Deborah Gover reviews some of the program highlights. more...
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Everything and the Kitchen Sink:
by Austin Govella | [3 comments]
Personas can be a great and powerful tool, but do we need a tome to learn to use them? Austin Govella dives into the deep end and gives us a glimpse into Pruit and Adlin's expansive work. more...
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IA Summit 2003 Wrapup Part 1
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
Spring is in the air and 400 +/- IAs are gathered together for networking, knowledge sharing, drinking, schmoozing, eating and drinking. It must be the annual ASIST IA Summit. Held in Portland, Oregon this year, the summit was well attended and seemed to be just what the doctor ordered. Check out the events from Friday night and Saturday, March 22. more...
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IA Summit 2003 Wrapup Part 2
by B&A Staff | [0 comments]
Despite the beginning of a war and major roads shut down by war protesters, folks managed to gather from around the world to rub elbows with their own kind—just the thing for a conference with the theme “Making Connections”. Check out the events from Sunday, March 23. more...