Ideative: Art Muse

m p — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:37 -0500

http://www.artimusart.com/

It is so simple but yet beautiful. It taps into the desire of
parents to keep everything their precious one does but without the
clutter. Parents take their kids art and send it in to artimusart and they post the images online so the parent can create a book with all the artwork.

Fast Answer -

m p — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:48:59 -0500

Depends on what you are building. Are you building an ecommerce site, an application, a social site, a marketing site, a content site? Having your users in mind is always required, but should you be goal centered, task centered, user centered, activity centered, social object centered? In the end your site should facilitate whatever the user is trying to do. The interaction should be frictionless and valuable.

Seeing white

m p — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:28:20 -0500

Why is it that the design does not look like you expected? You gave
a picture of what you wanted. What you got back was exactly the things
you asked for but ... it just does not look the same.

Luke W has an interesting guess as why this is the case:

"What’s missing is what’s invisible: alignment and whitespace.

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iPhone: Tufte goes ga ga

m p — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:56:21 -0500

Over the last year there has been many designers posting their love for Apple and the iPhone. The critiques took a long time to appear and I got bored quickly of the hype. Too much hype makes me tune out. Kottke posted a link to Tufte's praise of the iPhone and I was going to ignore it. But of course I did not as you can see.

Blog Posts: such potential

m p — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:32:56 -0500

Setting up blogs within the FC community is a great idea. But:

- How do you find them?

- Why is their URLs a number ? http://beta.fastcompany.com/blog/631472

- How do you promote them?

- Are they crawled by the search engines?

- How come I cannot see my blog from my home page?

Thank you,

mTp

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VCard - will not update

m p — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:30:32 -0500

I cannot get the 1st 3 fields in my VCard to update. I skipped over them during set up and am now try to change them. The page save and comes back as it was before. I even deleted the VCard to try again and it did not allow me to update. I switched browsers from Firefox to IE to see if that would make a difference and it did not.

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User Centered Design Agile Manifesto

m p — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:00:58 -0500

Can user interface designers make a manifesto to dove tail with the developers Agile Manifesto? Here is my attempt:

Activity Centered Techniques for Agile Design

1) Intimacy of stories over iteration management
2) Breadth of screens to provide a vision over depth and detail
3) User Acceptance every iteration over usability tests
4) Design Standards over unique designs

Focusing on the activities that the personas of interest are performing within the
business environment, there X main things to perform.