together at last: Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display
don’t worry, be crappy
i’m high from the fumes of kawasaki’s 9 truths of innovation. let me spit them out in my own words, with commentary, and add two more! jump to the next curve. it’s crowded in here. don’t worry, be crappy. as a perfectionist, i have to love this one. it’s also a principle of agile development: …
Quartz Composer – workaround for Image Downloader in Iterator
as documented here and elsewhere on quartzcomposer-dev, Image Downloaders don’t work properly inside of an Iterator. this is a minor tragedy since iterating a directory of images has so many productive uses. here’s a simple workaround that pre-fetches all of the images into a structure, which can be used within an Iterator:
sleight of mind
“Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.”
visual thinking for design, by colin ware
richly informative. and concise to boot. interaction designers, visual designers, researchers, people working in visualization, and the curious will find value in this book. careful readers will gain a deep understanding of how, why, and what we see. this understanding will inform the use of color, edges, contours, textures, layout, text, images, order and motion. …
sketching user experiences, by bill buxton
this is a wonderful book on getting the right design (divergent ideation) and the design right (convergent iteration). on the surface, buxton focuses on what it takes for interaction designers to create breakthrough products, but the ideas are equally applicable to research in hci and visualization. if students developed the habit of inexpensively “sketching” their …
emotional design is, eh, ok
i’m a fan of don norman’s design of everyday things, so i picked up emotional design with great expectations. i was disappointed. i expected a richer, tighter explanation of the interplay between emotion and design, a book full of models, insights, and design directives. norman doesn’t completely fail in these regards, but neither does emotional …
getting started with expression blend – tutorials
lynda.com is hosting some of lee brimelow’s blend tutorials. if you have GUI development experience, you may find the series a tad repetitive and slow. nevertheless, there’s certainly enough value to get you rolling in blend. chase with microsoft’s own blend tutorials, which make you do the work.
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