An Interview with Jesse James Garrett: “A positive user experience is one in which the goals of both the user and the organization that created the product are met. ‘Usability’ is one attribute of a successful user experience, but usability alone does not make an experience positive for the user.”
“…For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number…”
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“Hi. Ever since I started posting these Propaganda Posters online, I’ve gotten tons of mail asking who I am and what my problem is. My name is Micah Wright. I’m a writer for film, television, videogames and graphic novels. Like most people, I was horrified by the events of 9/11/01, but unlike George W. Bush, I’m not willing to throw away our Bill of Rights in order to feel ’safe.’”
“A persona is a user profile that you can use to help make design decisions, as well as use to aid you in other ways. These profiles are created from your knowledge of your users, usually knowledge gained from user testing and research. Think of it as having a ‘virtual’ user to bounce ideas off and help you keep the goals of the user in mind on a day-to-day basis.”
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“Getting at the meaning of space in maps is particularly problematic because multiple forms of space — the ‘real’ geographic space it reproduces, the coded space of scale and topology, and the presentational space of its design — are overlaid and laminated together in a map. A map also is an object which occupies space in its own right and it is, as Marx points out, the nature of objects to obscure the conditions of their own production.”
“One of the things that I personally enjoy about Information Design is how complex and layered it is. While the basics are very simple — create information that achieves maximum effectiveness by balancing the correct content with the best aesthetics — successfully accomplishing it is something else entirely. “
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