Wednesday WebWord Roundup
“Even where the application of ubiquitous technology would clearly be useful, I know enough about how informatic systems are built and brought to market to be very skeptical about its chances of bringing wholesale improvement to the quality of my life.” (Everyware: Always Crashing in the Same Car)
“Having said that, I don’t jump straight into HTML. I usually start on paper and usually do quite a bit of exploratory work on my own. This is something I bill our clients for, yet they hardly ever see it. That might seem strange to some, but it’s something I use to get my creative juices flowing.” (A realistic chat about design process)
“We cover common sense” (UX Magazine)
“Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.” (F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content)
“We know how to make products that are easy to use and understand. But what about emotions? What about designs that delight? What do we know about how to produce an emotional impact?” (Emotionally-centered design)
“The Headmap manifesto calls for a reinterpretation of space by layering annotations, ideas, images, anything that can be transmitted, over the top of our spatial experiences.” (Know Your Place)
“YouTube is not as bad as Google Video, but for a video site - it need a lot more focus on the actual presentation of these movies. As it is now it is more like a community site that happens to include videos - than the other way around.” (YouTube, nice try)