“Eddie Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer who produced one of the most riveting images of the Vietnam War, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 71. The cause was Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, said Judy Twersky, a spokeswoman for the Eddie Adams Workshop. In a 45-year career, much of it spent in the front ranks of news photographers, he worked for The Associated Press, Time and Parade, covering 13 wars and amassing about 500 photojournalism awards.”

“I still canít get over how cool this is. Jon Udellís little wizard lets you generate a bookmarklet for requesting a library bookóbased on the Amazon page youíre currently viewing. Itís clearly a flawless lifehack. You just need to know your libraryís URL and which system your own city uses (which Jon makes simple by providing preview links to see which style your system seems to follow).”

“An animated, interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.”

“Metaphase Design Group is among the firms that are melding research and good looks into products, helping clients find new revenue streams.”

“We believe that content management is essential to organizations of every type. It harvests and promotes both financial and human value for the companies and organizations that can tap its potential. CM Pros is a membership organization that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies. We seek to improve content management practices within all organizations…”

“The Internet’s first business weblog dedicated to PowerPoint, presentations and related topics. Enjoy!”

“Simplify, Simplify, Simplify! Simplicity may be the most important usability design principle as well as being the common thread through many other design principles. Simplicity of design not only optimizes business and the user experience but also simplifies software development, deployment, maintenance and support.”

“If you’ve ever done any usability testing, then you’ve been affected by Ginny Redish’s pioneering work. Ginny is a world-renowned usability expert and co-author of the books, ‘A Practical Guide to Usability Testing’ and ‘User and Task Analysis for Interface Design.’ While preparing for Ginny’s full-day seminar at the User Interface 9 Conference, UIE’s Christine Perfetti had the opportunity to ask Ginny about her thoughts on the best practices surrounding usability testing. Here is what Ginny had to say about her experiences.”

“How can something that feels so right be so wrong? Personas ought to be one of the defining techniques in user-focused design. Lots of professionals create them, yet too often the personas end up being too vague to guide a productís focus. They often lack the detail to be useful in guiding low-level design trade-offs. And, as typically done, personas have been too narrowly focused.”

“This experimental map was produced for Princeton University’s International Networks Archive, an organization dedicated to finding a new way of mapping our world. The INA believes that geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant, and that there should be a new system of mapping, based on global transactions instead of geography. This map is an exploration into this theory, and reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance.”

“I went to the Victoria Albert Museum here in London and homed in on the photography section. While gawking at a photograph I overheard someone whining, ‘I liiiike it, but what is it, whaaatís the point?’ I looked over and saw he and his group looking at a photogram. Perhaps, I thought, if he had read the accompanying text he might have been more appreciative, but he was too busy looking for something ëgood’ to strike him, like say a Cartier Bresson image.”

“Yesterday morning, I saw via somebodyís feed (most likely either Matt or Simon) that Rakesh Pai has published a piece called ‘The Economics of XHTML’, in which he explores and summarizes many points in favor of moving to XHTML.”

“One of the writers at Game Girl Advance is reading Understanding Comics, and wonders if it would be possible to create a game that explains gaming in the same way that Scott McCloud created a comic that explains comics.”

“Below are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job. We will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it’s best used for cutting paper or putting in nails. There are at least 200 different creativity techniques and tools available, listed below are some of these.”

“News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? … When is multimedia appropriate? … Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?”