‘Design’ posts
Who Pays for Content? What’s in it for Me? Vote!
Posted by John Eckman on 02 Sep 2009
Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don’t get one up soon I’m going to miss the deadline – voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! Photo by ehnmark, cc-by license I’ve submitted two panel proposals this year – each is described below with a voting link. [...]
Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jun 2009
One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. The talk, [...]
Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Posted by John Eckman on 20 Apr 2009
Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it’s important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source [...]
DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends
Posted by John Eckman on 20 Mar 2009
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year – the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). I’ll be posting more specific updates on | View post »
Microformats FTW (For the Win!)
Posted by John Eckman on 08 Nov 2008
Microformats are “a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards” – essentially small html markup standards for representing specific kinds of data, like contacts, events, and relationships between people. In this post we’ll look at three microformats tools for popular browsers: The Operator plugin for Firefox The Safari Microformats | View post »
Website Application Design – Milkshake Usability Part 1
Posted by Optaros on 08 Jul 2008
Usability and milkshakes: Need to sell more widgets? To answer this question the first challenge is to know why your customers want to buy them. Don’t assume you already know. In the book, The Innovator’s Solution, the brilliant team of Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor recount the illuminating story of a | View post »
User experience: Detailed dashboards in constrained spaces
Posted by Optaros on 10 Jun 2008
I once read an anecdote about how doctors and nurses at a particular hospital used a shorthand on a patient’s chart to communicate quickly and efficiently. A stick figure representing the patient would be drawn on the corner of the chart, and various abbreviations and symbols would indicate symptoms, ailments or responses to treatment in | View post »
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