Biosphere loveliness

We are finally in full-on production mode for the Biosphere online experience. It’s great to work with our committed and competent team.
We’ll shortly launch our ‘work in progress’ site – this is going to be the start of the community engagement plan. We hope we will be able to clarify, de-mystify and in some cases [...]

Noosa Journal | Business Section

Not a single quote from Jackson. He is livid. Jackson however has a pretty face and is terrific with shapes, colours, tags and cheese melts.
And have I mentioned: PunkLogic are now at NoosaBoardrooms? Come and see us. Our phone nr is +61 7 5430 6610.

“ You cannot NOT have a user experience!”

(by Lou Carbone)
A treasure trove of User Experience Quotes – Collected by Szymon Błaszczyk.
Wonderful stuff! Thanks Szymon.

Christopher Alexander – a most beautiful mind.

The IAI mailing list has been discussing the usefulness and approach of collating an IA pattern library. Christopher Alexander is one of the team of architects who wrote ‘A Pattern Language’ Victor Lombardi pointed to a keynote Christopher Alexander gave at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications. (Thanks Victor)
While the [...]

I heart flash…

…when it is used well.

This is fantastic information design – check it out
via UIE – where you can find plenty more lush examples of information design. Like the  ‘Is it better to buy or rent?’ graph.

Personas Case Study

Environment Agency: Personas Pack

Great case study about developing and working with Personas and using them for maximum effect.
via IA Institute – thanks James Robertson (step two) for sharing.

Backcasting – an interesting technique

This is a presentation on the use of Backcasting as a strategic discovery process tool for information architects. Presented by Matthew Milan and Sam Ladner at the 2007 IA Summit in Las Vegas.
Thanks for sharing.

Tumblr

is nice – is simple
from the tumblr blog on WordPress
‘Yeah, it’s still a blog. But it’s a new philosophy. It’s free of noise, requirements, and commitments. And it’s finally here. ‘
A very different blog experience – I’ve stuck my Tumblr button into my browser – let’s see what happens on bettina.tumblr.com

IA Musings: When do you loose the breadcrumb trail?

The breadcrumb metaphor is misleading – I agree with Chris Fahey who calls it ‘crummy’ on a related SIGIA-L thread.
Breadcrumbs don’t follow a user’s movements. A breadcrumb navigation is really more like a GPS, indicating where you are in relation to the nearest info landmarks. On retail sites this would be most likely a department [...]

Intuitect

So I’m evaluating Intuitect. – a UX visio tool.
Unfortunately it crashes visio quite frequently. Flashbacks from times where your computer would freeze and crash as a matter of course ensue.
Intuitect has got some very cool features though – especially automatic updates to align sitemap changes with wireframes and navigation.
I so do not like their pricing [...]