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InfoDesign: Understanding by Design

Dedicated to the growth and improvement of the information experience industries.

Working through Screens: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge WorkNovember 18

"(...) a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides teams with a broad range of considerations for setting the overall direction and priorities for their onscreen tools. With hundreds of envisioning questions and fictional examples from clinical research, financial trading, and architecture, this volume can help definers and designers to explore innovative new directions for their products." (Jacob Burghardt - Flashbulb Interaction)

Web 3.0, User Experience and Intelligent User InterfacesNovember 18

"If Web 2.0 was all about fostering social interconnectivity, then the loosely termed Web 3.0, appears to be about the intelligent web. It’s about, amongst other things, contextually aware user interfaces (UI's), hyperconnectivity, the semantic web and intelligent agents. These are all concepts which have existed for a very long time." (Chris Khalil's Musings)

A Universal Declaration of Users' RightsNovember 18

"We're coming up on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10. I'm a big supporter of this, and of Amnesty International, which works to protect these rights. Which got me to thinking: why isn’t there a list of users' rights anywhere? What is the baseline that all users of every product everywhere should expect? So using the UDHR as a starting point, I drew one up." (Dan Saffer - Kicker Studio)

Future Practice Interview: Indi YoungNovember 18

"Instead of thinking in terms of the organization and all the services and support this organization offers people, think in terms of real life. Look past the clinical kind of data and get to the warm, fuzzy, human heart of how people are making decisions and justifying actions and having emotional reactions to things that get in their way." (Victor Lombardi - Rosenfeld Media)

PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online ExperienceNovember 17

"I'm not down on every use of PDF files online. Campus maps, article reprints, and my aunt's Christmas letters all work quite well as PDF files. What I want to challenge in this column is the use of PDF files for distributing user assistance online, in the form of large books." (Mike Hughes - UXmatters)