http://web.mit.edu/ Interesting links en-us username@domain.com Linkwalla http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/yahoo_open_sources_uis_and_des.html Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:30:36 -0500 <p>I have spent a little time browsing through the Yahoo UI library and Design Patterns Library. The UI library is rich with downloadable code and documentation. </p> <p>I've often heard the Yahoo design pattern library referenced in talks about design patterns, and this first time I'v e been able to see it. Here's one right off the bat with relevance for Sakai: <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/pattern_navigationtabs.php">Navigation tabs</a>. </p> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:20:33 -0500 <p>50% or more of email messages are misinterpreted. This is part of the challenge of labels and short instructions in a user interface as well - some times expressing something in just few words is terribly difficult, and the challenge is to try to <em>show</em> what to do through a UI, rather than tell.</p> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/%7Erdivecha/archives/2006/02/the_world_of_sm.html Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:06:30 -0500 <p>I've seen a link to this video on nearly every user experience blog I read. At some point in the future, the work of a UI designer will have fewer (or different) constraints than it does now. Watching this and thinking about how this technology would be used in a tool like Stellar Images is really interesting. </p> http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:43:17 -0500 <p>Garfield becomes funny when you remove everything that Garfield says. This is a great example of a principle in user interface design. I don't have words to describe that principle. </p> http://www.zillow.com/ Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:31:59 -0500 <p>Potentially useful mashup-style web application. Shows you a map of a neighborhood with the value of most houses. It didn't have data about our recent purchase, so I wonder how accurate it is, but it was interesting to look at our block.</p> http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:19:22 -0500 <p>Big fonts, round corners and gradients, oh my!</p> http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000099.html Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:07:05 -0500 <p>This freshman seminar was led by Katie Livingston-Vale and Phil Long. If nothing else it teaches the younger generation about the blogs we old folks like to read! Includes news that MIT Academic Computing will host blogs for classes that want to use them.</p> http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/008719.php Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:46:07 -0500 <p>A comparison of the images resulting from the search term "Tianamen" on the American version of Google Images and the Chinese version. Spooky in a george orwell kind of way.</p> http://craphound.com/000594.html Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:34:28 -0500 <p>I want to make it to at least one of these events. Let me know if you are too.</p> http://www.theunseenvideo.com/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:30:20 -0500 <p>This music video changes it's appearance based on your location, time and the current weather. Cool idea. Boring to watch though. </p> http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70180-0.html?tw=rss.culture Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:26:53 -0500 <p>I have to agree, Woz is a much more attractive figure. </p> http://www.plum.com/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:21:59 -0500 <p>Plum sounds like a promising addition to the field. But will they have a simple API for me to plug linkwalla into?</p> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/ENC/Sakai+Blogger+Tool Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:59:10 -0500 <p>Lancaster University, UK, announced a new blogging tool for Sakai today. Looks like pretty simple functionality so far - which is great, I think it's much better to launch something simple and build from there. Two features I'd love to see in the future:</p> <ul> <li>RSS Feeds. Maybe it already has these, and I just don't see it in the documentation, but this is pretty essential.</li> <li>Setup a blog for every student in a class (and create an aggregate RSS feed). </li> </ul> http://battellemedia.com/archives/002317.php Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:01:22 -0500 <p>Mary Sue Coleman is eloquent and strong in her words. I wish I could hear politicians speak this way. </p> http://www.collylogic.com/?/comments/redesign-notes-1-width-based-layout/ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:07:32 -0500 <p>Not sure I would ever want to do this, but this DHTML page shows or hides a column based on how wide the screen is. I link to it becasue I plan for 800 pixel wide screens (all those instructors presenting with old projectors) and it would be nice to have design that shows up nice enough when small, but even better when big.</p>