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The Spectrum of User Experience

Douglas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:11:12 +0000

Another Venn Diagram on UX. This one from Nishant Kothary. The identity crisis persists…

These days, user experience professionals look down on the word “designer” because it implies that their primary role is to paint pretty pixels. UX is more than that, they clarify. Much more!

Just how much? Well, here’s a diagram (that uses pretty pixels) to explain how much more—

The Spectrum of User Experience

Der Mensch als Industriepalast

Douglas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:02:20 +0000

Combine Fritz Kahn’s 1926 modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system with Designer Henning Lederer’s command of animation and interactive form and you get visualization magic.

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.

Successful Information Design

Douglas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:32:49 +0000

Successful Information Design

Ignite my butt!

Douglas — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:24:37 +0000

Two presentations to prepare–start to finish–over the next two weeks!

Ignite. What it is and how to give one (as per the famed Scott Berkun)

Urisa: The Association of GIS Professionals

Final Patent from HP

Douglas — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:42:21 +0000

At least, I am not aware of any others in the hopper. This one took nearly 4 years from the date of filing! Looks like it is now listed at the European Patent Office as well.

Abstract of US 2007172151 (A1) Translate this text
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for guiding a camera user to take an appropriate set of component photographs to be stitched into a stitched panoramic photograph of a scene. In one example embodiment, the camera constructs and displays a video mosaic while the user sweeps the field of view of the camera over the scene. The camera computes the number and locations of a set of component photographs that will tile the scene, and then guides the user to sweep field of view of the camera over the scene a second time, visiting each component photograph location. A high-resolution component photograph may be taken at each location. Optionally, the camera gathers information from frames used to construct the video mosaic and uses the information to select settings for focus, exposure, or both to be used during the taking of the component photographs.

Productive Creativity

Douglas — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:16:04 +0000

Great ideas are conceived and lost in the hands of creative geniuses, across all disciplines, every day

Scott Belsky’s in development Productive Creativity Manuscript looks very promising.

User Experience Designer

Douglas — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:40:06 +0000

An excellent Venn diagram from Robby Ingebretsen

Snow Day. Again? Evan is in Heaven.

Douglas — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:59:57 +0000

Snow Day!

Douglas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:29 +0000

The Windows franchise. A retrospective

Douglas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:11 +0000

Some thoughts gathered in preparation for hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party

Click and drag this timeline:

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Windows 1.0

Released: 20 November 1985

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Trivia: Windows 1.01 replaced 1.0 a few weeks after release due to a keyboard input problem. A few months after release, Balmer was in true form selling Windows 1.0. Screenshots.

IBM/MS OS/2

Released: Apr 1987

The development of OS/2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the Joint Development Agreement in August 1985.[3] It was code-named “CP/DOS” and it took two years for the first product to be delivered.

Windows 2.0

Released: 9 Dec 1987

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The first Windows versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel run on Windows 2.0.

Windows 3.0

Released: 22 May 1990

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And episode of The Computer Chronicles describes the major advances in Windows 3.0 which is now serious competition for OS/2;

Windows 3.1

Released: 6 April 1992 info

A Japanese Windows 3.1 commercial;

Windows 3.1 Launch Party

Windows 95

Released: 24 August 1995 info

Windows 95 launched by Jay Leno

Bill Gates and Brad Silverberg launch Windows 95

Windows NT

Released: 24 August 1996 info

Windows 98

Released: 25 June 1998 info

Windows 98 Launch and the famous Blue Screen of Death demo

Windows 2000

Released: 17 Feb 2000 info

Windows Me

Released: September 14, 2000 info

A Windows ME Ad

Windows XP

Released: 24 AUG 2001 info

Balmer on XP

Windows Vista

Released: 8 NOV 2006 info

Windows Vista Launch in Tokyo

Windows Vista Launch in Manhattan

Gates Keynote in Brussels on 9 Nov 2006

Windows 7

Released: 22 Oct 2009 info

And Finally, a bit more Kylie

Here’s how we were told to do it

Of course, someone had to crash the party

and the requisite Hitler parady

And lets wrap it up with a SNAP, PEEK and SHAKE demo!

So where’s the Windows Franchise heading?

Let’s look at Moore’s Law…

In a whitepaper dated September of 2009, Intel is coming out bullish on Moore’s Law: “Intel currently has visibility on how to extend Moore’s Law for several more generations.”

Ray Kurzweil’s take on Moore’s Law

And its extension into the future singularity