Designing for '99
I was a little surprised to see that
Wired's new
online store is built entirely in....Flash? What!? So then: no deep linking, no text searches, and I can't use my back button or scrollwheel (at least the way they've scripted it). I love Flash, it's a great tool, but when it comes to the web, Flash is always better in moderation. I thought
the idea (or at least the trend) for Flash in our Web 2.0 world was that it would be used to enhance HTML, not replace it. I figured Wired would know better.
ABB Powerwall at DUX
I'm happy to say that the
ABB Powerall [PDF] seemed to be quite well received at
DUX yesterday. Daniel, did a great job presenting the project, he's a comedy genious.
For anyone interested, the extended version of the Powerwall demo video we showed at the conference is
available here (warning: 14mb)
DUX 2005
I'm in San Francisco for the rest of the week for the
Design for User eXperience conference.
Daniel Fallman will be presenting the ABB Powerwall project
(PDF of the paper here) that
Mattias Andersson and I designed while Mattias and I were in our last year at
Umeå (almost two years ago now, where has the time gone?).
I'll also be taking in
Steve Portigal's tutorial on participant-observer user research titled
Whose Line is it Anyway: Innovation, Ethnography and Improv.
