“In this post, two threads are at work. The first addresses an issue often raised in user-centered design, which is that its discipline and process don’t encourage innovation — many people equate UCD with usability engineering, a practice which seems to limit creativity, encouraging designs similar to those already out there, because that’s what people are familiar with… The second thread involves faceted classification, one of the most powerful, yet least understood, methods of organizing information.”

“In this post, two threads are at work. The first addresses an issue often raised in user-centered design, which is that its discipline and process don’t encourage innovation — many people equate UCD with usability engineering, a practice which seems to limit creativity, encouraging designs similar to those already out there, because that’s what people are familiar with… The second thread involves faceted classification, one of the most powerful, yet least understood, methods of organizing information.”

directory “Our passion for visual culture and our desire to share it gathered us around a project: computerlove. After a few litres of sweat, a ’shitload’ different layouts, trillions emails, and tons of nicotine/caffeine, we managed to get this first issue. This w

“The buzzword that describes all this is, of course, community. But behind the buzz is an important concept: Designers could come to the site and find a place that reflected who they were and invited their participation in many ways. It would be a place to find inspiration and instruction, and share ways to inspire and instruct others. And with the introduction of a new Web-based application, Adobe DesignTeam, it would be a place to be productive, work with clients, and manage projects. Naturally, it would also be a place where people could find out about Adobe products and purchase them.”

“Paper prototyping is a technique that enables technical and non-technical personnel to cooperatively design user interfaces for GUI and Web applications. Our prototyping kit is a simple low-tech collection of user interface elements that facilitates this process. We no longer sell the kit, but because of ongoing interest have made all the source materials available here free of charge. The kit contains scaled GUI and Web screens, printed with a light grid. The screens can be printed on A3 or Ledger paper.”

“Paper prototyping is a technique that enables technical and non-technical personnel to cooperatively design user interfaces for GUI and Web applications. Our prototyping kit is a simple low-tech collection of user interface elements that facilitates this process. We no longer sell the kit, but because of ongoing interest have made all the source materials available here free of charge. The kit contains scaled GUI and Web screens, printed with a light grid. The screens can be printed on A3 or Ledger paper.”