Author: Vince Kimball

The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett. For some years now, we web designers have been operating with a rough idea of exactly what it is we do. By mimicking the practices of other disciplines, sharing knowledge via web sites & mailing lists, reading industry magazines, following design gurus, and a whole lot… Continue reading The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett

What it Takes to Win the 40-Year War. According to one expert on global terror, we're at the outset of a war that could last 40 years. John Ellis lays out four bold strategies for adjusting to this new reality — and make sure that we win the war. [Fast Company]

Tog's got answers. Bruce Tognazzini (Tog) on Apple…. Bruce Tognazzini (Tog) on Apple Squandering the Advantage, on interface innovations Apple could make. Lists extra screen objects including: Piles (stacks of documents); visual cues on folders; various object/application collections.  [Interconnected] Lots of great ideas enclosed. Bruce is one of the grand old men of User Interface… Continue reading Tog's got answers

OPML is the way to go. Synchronicity. Jon Udell has posted the topic for his keynote talk at OSCOM. Perhaps I'll talk about OPML and directories. I want to zero in on something we can all do together to move Content Management forward. I want to see OPML directory renderers in all environments, not just… Continue reading OPML is the way to go

BuddyZoo.  AIM Meets Social Network Theory [Slashdot]  BuddyZoo just got Slashdotted.  Another form of identity browsing – AIM buddy lists are by far, the largest collection of identities out there today. Unfortunately it's controlled by the mother of all closed shops – AOL. BuddyZoo takes your buddy list and compares it to everyone elses – and… Continue reading BuddyZoo

We are the enablers.  Stewart Alsop On Server Side State. We are moving to a server side state world. Client side applications are fine, but they are simply the local glue to make server side data more manageable…Entrepreneurs, over to you. [VentureBlog] ISPs, are you listening?? [Scott Mace's Radio Weblog] Andrew Anker and Stewert Alsop… Continue reading We are the enablers

Sputnik ships!. Orbit achieved.  Sputnik has come out with its first hardware product: The AP 120 wireless access point. It's an enterprise thingie with auto-configuration (plug one into your LAN, it figures out where to get control commands, puts up a dynamic firewall, and immediately becomes a smart but unobtrusive member of the corporate hive… Continue reading Sputnik ships!

Jabber & PingID.  Well, 15 months after starting PingID, I feel privileged to have the opportunity to connect my past with the future. In this phase of the Jabber/PingID relationship, we've integrated Ping's first product (SourceID – www.sourceid.org) into the Jabber's eXtensible Communications Platform (this integration is being demo'd this week at the RSA conference in SF).… Continue reading Jabber & PingID

Piles of documents. Some interesting speculation on Mac Rumors about Apple integrating a finder feature called Piles that creates a finder metaphor based on the physical act of viewing/sifting through a pile of documents on a desktop in meatspace. Here's a description from an earlier Tog article. Apple holds a patent on this one. Developed… Continue reading Piles of documents

City Scan: Connecticut's Civic Smart Mobs. In City Scan projects, citizens prioritize desired improvements to the physical environment of their community and gather information on how well government services deliver results. On city streets, residents (from age 14 through 70) collect data about neighborhood conditions (e.g graffiti, potholes) with handheld computers, custom-designed software, wireless modems,… Continue reading City Scan: Connecticut's Civic Smart Mobs