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Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis

Mar 14, 2010 5:14pm

A nice story from the NY times on a Kenyan product called Ushahidi. This is an informant mapping tool and works like this: anybody on the ground can call a cell number and and point out a location, it could be of a rape or a terrorist hideout, and all...

Personal pronouns: It’s okay to own your web copy

Mar 11, 2010 8:01pm

Wonderful post from Brain Traffic on using personal pronouns in your web copy. I do agree, at times, it can be difficult to sell this in some organisations, but I also agree, it may be just a matter of adopting or getting comfortable with a style. Using personal pronouns may sound...

15 Desktop & Online Wireframing tools

Mar 11, 2010 7:57pm

From UX booth: “Like most things today, the world of interaction design moves quickly. Although a pen and notebook may suffice when it comes to simply jotting down ideas, planning a series of website screens can sometimes demand additional precision and cohesion. This is where today’s wireframing tools come in.”...

Filenaming Conventions and Knowledge Sharing

Mar 9, 2010 9:44pm

Patrick has posted an article on file naming conventions. Good. Now I don’t have to hunt for them every time!...

The Ethnography of Design: A Series

Mar 8, 2010 3:49pm

New series on Ethnography by Catapult Design: This post is the first in a weekly series called “The Ethnography of Design” about the relationship between anthropology and design and how the ethnographer’s toolkit can be applied to build more effective world-changing, problem-solving products and systems. Each post in the series will...

Making teaching stick

Mar 8, 2010 6:20am

After reading Switch (highly recommended) by Dan and Chip Heath I headed to their website to get more resources. I was pleasantly surprised by the range of resources they have there. From a short summary of the book to how-to guides on using the principles in different settings. The one...

2010 Intranet Innovation Awards are open for entries

Mar 7, 2010 3:23pm

The 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards are open for entries. Entries close on Friday 23. I like this award. It highlights how teams are thinking of making their intranets useful and productive. It starts a discussion on ideas and themes. I met some of the winners at the KM World conference...

Designing collections for the web

Feb 28, 2010 4:41pm

Designing collections for the web - my new article over at PebbleRoad. The idea of the article came up when the team was discussing how best to leverage and surface homogeneous information. We were doing a redesign of a hospital website and found out that patients wanted to be connected...

Streams of Content, Limited Attention

Feb 25, 2010 4:20pm

An interesting take by Danah Boyd on how the information streams that we are living in (blogs, tweets, facebook, buzz, etc.) need some change in order to be relevant. The main argument here is that it is difficult to direct attention to something in a stream. And if we do...

Primary 1 math paper - cruel usabilty problems

Feb 10, 2010 4:27am

I came back from work today to find my 6-year-old daughter in a bad mood. She was upset because Mommy told her that she got low marks in a math test! Surprised? Yes, in Singapore, reality hits early! I find it surreal that tests are given so early but I’m...