September 2012 Archives

This year the EuroIA conference was rounded off with a closing plenary by Stephen P. Anderson, author of “Seductive Interaction Design”, talking about curiosity. Here are my notes...

I’ve spent the last couple of days at EuroIA in Rome, doing lots and lots of bloggage. I’m nearly at the end now - and on Saturday morning I saw Sara Wachter-Boettcher bring content strategy to life for an IA crowd.

One of the few sessions at EuroIA I saw that actually had footage of using testing was a cases tudy of building a discount coupon app for the iPhone in Switzerland. Here are my notes on Hermann Hofstetter & Gregor Urech’s talk.

Here are my notes on James Kalbach and Carola Weller talking about the RITE methodology at EuroIA 2012 in Rome.

Not since Joe Muggs turned up at London IA and started talking about “Dancing to architecture” have I faced a session as unbloggable as that delivered last night at EuroIA by Andrea Resmini and Eric Reiss. Taking turns to accompany each other on the piano, silent-movie style, they delivered a visual essay on the nature of beauty and what IAs should do about it...

I’m trying to keep up with nearly-live-blogging EuroIA in Rome. So far I’ve posted notes on talks by Gerry McGovern,Peter J. Bogaards and Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma and Raffaella Roviglioni. I actually split my time during Raffaella’s talk because I wanted to see some of Jonas Söderström’s session on bad enterprise software...

I’ve live-blogging EuroIA in Rome. I’ve posted notes on talks by Gerry McGovern,Peter J. Bogaards and Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma. I was really looking forward to Raffaella Roviglioni talking about her unique path into UX, and I wasn’t disappointed. Here are my notes...

I’m trying my usual frantic blog-it-as-it-happens thing here at EuroIA in Rome. I’ve already posted my notes on the opening session from Gerry McGovern, and Peter J. Bogaards talking about “wicked problems”. The third session was from Birgit Geiberger and Peter Boersma, looking at how relationships at work are key to delivering good design.

I’m at EuroIA in Rome, trying my usual frantic blog-it-as-it-happens approach. Up until the point where I give my talk on “IA in the touchscreen era” tomorrow. I’ve posted my notes on the opening session from Gerry McGovern, and here is session two with Peter J. Bogaards. Peter was one of the first information architects I ever started reading on the web, and one of the inspirations to start currybetdotnet all those years ago...

I’m at EuroIA in Rome, and will be trying my usual blog-it-as-it-happens approach. Whilst also putting the final touches to my talk on “IA in the touchscreen era” tomorrow. Here are my notes on the opening session from Gerry McGovern...

I’m in Rome for a few days, attending EuroIA where I’ve run my workshop on “Responisive IA” and will be talking about “IA in the touch-screen era” tomorrow. But in the meantime, here is my regular round-up of a collection of long(-ish) reads I found interesting this week about journalism, UX, writing historical fiction and a little bit of vintage computing and gaming.

What shall I get my blog for its birthday? On December 24 this year currybetdotnet will be ten years old. That’s quite a long time to have been running a site. What shall I do to celebrate?

This is a version of the talk I gave today at Mobile Media Strategies 2012

On Friday it was exactly three months since my last day at the Guardian. So I thought I’d post my first ever set of “weeknotes” so you could see what I’m getting up to as Emblem.

Here is my regular weekly round-up of long reads and essays that I found interesting from around the web this week - this week with a specific focus on mobile content, design, publishing and software development. You can grab nearly the whole thing bundled up as a handy Readlist which will work for your Kindle or iOS device.

EuroIA in Rome is only a couple of weeks away, and I’ve been rifling through the programme planning what I want to see whilst I am there. Here are four talks that I’m particularly looking forward to.

This is a version of the talk I gave at BrightonSEO on September 14th 2012.

My weekly round-up of stuff snaffled from the recesses of the intertubes.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about, and designing, mobile and tablet UIs. So here goes with one of those awkward blog posts where I essentially point at stuff I did elsewhere, and direct you to events I’m talking at...

Nowhere near as fun as Crackerjack, but at least appearing on a Friday afternoon with similar regularity, here is my round up of interesting links and bits and bobs that I spotted floating around the internet. And if you like that sort of thing, you can use the Readlist version to send a big bundle of it all to your Kindle, iPhone or other portable content consumption devices.

Going to a Talk Talk tribute party reminded me that I’d forgotten Situ, a school friend who loved them, and who died unexpectedly when he was in his twenties.

At the weekend I watched the EDL march through my hometown. It wasn’t an edifying sight.

One of the sadder things about the summer of the Olympics and Paralympics drawing to a close is that lots of great exhibitions are also coming to an end. There are only a couple of days left to catch “Olympex 2012: Collecting the Olympic Games” at the British Library.

You might have seen an image doing the rounds on the web which appears to be The Sun reporting on the invention of the World Wide Web, and comparing it to the Sinclair C5. Much hilarity ensues. Of course the image is a fake.