In a followup to a previous post, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Korea through Education: A Social Business Proposal I saw some very exciting news that the Korean government will move to provide long-term full tuition coverage student loans for poor students starting 2010. It even stipulates that the students are only required to…
Month: July 2009
Louis Vuitton. Not
Vuitton. Not Photo from a recent trip to Hong Kong.
Telsa roadster Hot Wheels
Telsa Roadster Hot Wheels The Tesla Roadster was included in a pack of Hot Wheels my wife bought for our 3 year-old son on a recent trip to the US. Nice. Why does it not surprise me that there is a wiki page already on this toy.
An iconic mousepad
Classic Apple icon design by Susan Kare You can tell a lot about how much someone knows you by the gifts that they give. A good friend gave me this gift today after returning from a trip to New York. He bought it at MoMA and the label said it was on sale for $3.95…
Tools for creating wireframes and prototypes (Part 2)
In a follow-up to 10 tools for creating wireframes and prototypes I did a quick comparison of some of the features I think are valuable in a wireframe/prototyping tool. Here a brief summary of the categories: Master Templates: As any information architect knows, the home page is different. However most of the subpages have navigation…
Tools for creating wireframes and prototypes (Part 1)
I am so glad to see there are so many more applications dedicated to creating wireframes and prototypes. A far better scene from a couple of years ago when there was only Omnigraffle and Visio. Here’s round up of information architecture (IA) and user interface (UI) tools for wireframing and prototyping: Desktop wireframing tools 1….
IDEO Method Cards widget
IDEO’s excellent Method Cards for human-centered design are available as a widget for Mac OS X users. (Saves you $50) Available as a download in the right column of the news page. Really easy to miss. Incidentally, Fast Company has an article on IDEO Method Cards Turn, Um, 7! Happy birthday Method Cards!
We get our Thursdays from a banana
“We get our Thursdays from a banana” is a quote from a presentation Clay Shirky made at Supernova. In the presentation he also mentions: the Isa Shrine in Japan, Perl, AT&T, community and love. It is also features one of his most famous quote: In the past, we did little things for love and big…
The Geography of UX: Why web user experience in Korea is not about the searchbox
Korean internet culture is unique. Or the internet culture of Northern America is not universal.1 User Experience: my definition If you do an Amazon search for User Experience (UX) you get mostly web design related books. The web has grown so dramatically in the past decade that it is sometimes hard to imagine a time…
UX for Good
Just launched a new blog UXforGood.org which tries to bring together my often intersecting interest in user experience (UX) and social change. In quite a visionary statement with far before the birth of the internet, Charles Eames said: Beyond the age of information is the age of choices. It is an understatement to say that…