Category Archives: Interaction Design

I recently got a new laptop for work. It’s got a 17-inch screen with a resolution of 1920×1600. This resolution is fabulous for doing mockups, models, and graphics. However, my eyeballs recently turned 40, and the monitor is approximately 140dpi … Continue reading →

About a year and a half ago, we published (internally) a set of 88 UI patterns to help direct design on our various product teams. (The patterns were inspired by and extended from Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell).  Since then, … Continue reading →

I read this morning that Marc Canter is leaving California, so I did some more reading to figure out where he’s going. Holy cow! Cleveland and NEO (Northeast Ohio). He wants to kick up some dirt and make some stuff … Continue reading →

A few months ago, I discovered that one of our dev teams was using a new little tool for developing their UI mockups. They looked great, as if they had been sketched by hand by someone talented with a medium-nib … Continue reading →

Kelly Braun of PayPal, Eva Gaumond of Oracle, and Wei Zhou (recorded) of Oracle presented on the challenges and value of doing international user research.  Some tidbits: PayPal UX is based in San Jose, CA, but 43% of revenue is generated … Continue reading →

Duane Degler of Design for Context did a session on state of the art in semantic web UI.  Here are some of the insights I took from his talk: The semantic web community has come to realize that without good … Continue reading →

I’m attending a few sessions at the UPA 2008 conference here in Baltimore this week. I went to the opening keynote presentation this morning. Carole Bilson, VP of Global Design and Usability at Pitney Bowes described her experience in evolving … Continue reading →

I read about TripIt.com a few months ago but hadn’t taken the time to try it.  It is a site that you simply forward e-mail confirmations of travel plans, and it organizes a nicely readable, interactive itinerary for your trip … Continue reading →

I went to the local UPA meeting last night. It was a good presentation by the user research team at Revolution Health (a startup founded by Steve Case, former founder of AOL), Leah Rader and Beth Toland. They were a … Continue reading →

I attended another Microsoft design presentation about the design of the Office 2007 Ribbon that has replaced the menus and toolbars of the traditional apps.  Presented by Jensen Harris, it was a refreshingly self-deprecating look at the history of the … Continue reading →