I was reading the article ‘What is next in webdesign’ on informationarchitects.jp- and there was one line- that explains UX and what UX is about to webdesigners- in a single sentence:
User Experience is in the interface, not in the surface.
Also. They have (I just found out copy/pasting the text) a very useful script running on their site. When you copy a text from their blog- it automatically adds the ‘Read more:’ part. Now that is smart…
One of my pet peeves is the fact that- sometimes people put a ‘next’ link- where a ‘previous’ link would make more sense in context of browsing though a blog.
You know how it works- you are reading through a blog, get to the bottom- and there, you have a link called ‘next’. OK, fair enough- you don’t give it any thought and click on it (The Affordance of that link is: it get’s you somewhere were you want to go) Now…page 2, you go though the articles- and there, at the bottom of the page you are greeted with:
OK So, when clicking ‘previous’, will I go back in time (so- will I get to a page, where I can read older articles) or back to page 1?
Does it not make more sense to name the anchor something like older posts, or newer posts?
And probably not what you expected. It dates back to 1992, after a CERN organized festival called the Hardronic Festival. Tim Berners-Lee asked Silvano de Gennaro to scan some pictures of the CERN girls to publish on this thing he invented called the World Wide Web.
Abstract
A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. The shoes have a specially designed heel slot which can be detachably engaged with the hitch member by simply sliding the shoe wearer’s foot forward, thereby engaging with the hitch member.
Known as patent number 5255452, filed in 1992. This patent describes how Michael performed the iconic moment in Smooth Criminal where he and his posse leaned forward, beyond his center of gravity without crashing face first into the ground. It’s was an awesome moment, by an awesome performer. He will be greatly missed.
Google released the Google Quick Search Box or QSB for short. It is in most aspects the same as products like Launchy for the PC and ofcourse, Quicksilver for the Apple.
You open it by pressing CTRL-Space at the same time, which is nice- it didnt’ hyjack my launchy combination.
One of the nicer features is that it is supposed to be a learning app. It would learn from my past interactions so it would give you results as quickly as possible
As you use the Google Quick Search Box more, it will learn which results you are likely to want. The goal here is that we get you to what you’re looking for as quickly as possible. In the above example, if you chose Google Calendar, the next time you search for “cal”, Google QSB will reorder the results so that you don’t have to arrow down to your desired choice. Instead, you can just type “cal” and press enter.
Scripting is available, but only for the Mac as I understand it. Or olso for Windows users, but just not that Twitter plugin they mention. Which would be abit odd I suppose.
You do need to install the Google Desktop, as it’s part of it.
Earlier today- Altavista, website for ’security professionals’ (read: mostly scriptkiddies) Has been targeted and hacked, well- not only were they hacked, all exploits and details are made public on their site. http://astalavista.com and they were torn apart. I suspect it will not remain up for long so i’ve included the log of the hack at the bottom.
It is as an thrilling read as any good suspence novell. As gmazzola commented on hackernews : ”It’s rather similar to the urge to rubberneck at a car crash: it’s both horrific and exciting at the same time.”
From the log;
Why has Astalavista been targeted? Other than the fact that they are not doing any of this for the “community” but for the money, they spread exploits for kids, claim to be a security community (with no real sense of security on their own servers), and they charge you $6.66 per months to access a dead forum with a directory filled with public releases and outdated / broken services.
Google just launched another entry in their Labs section called Google Squared. Google describes its function as
“constructs a table of facts about any search category you specify”
Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify.
Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them “Squares” for fun).
Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in.
See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square.
Save and share Squares with others.
It sounds an aweful lot like Socrata. Where (essentially) you can share datasets. Granted- the functionality of Socrate is now still far superiour to Google’s. But it’s in essence I believe the same thing. Or atleast on the same field (no pun…) However, we are talking about Google here who sits on one of the largest unmined (well….) dataset on the planet. It will make that data available at some point. And eventhough I was impressed by the concept- (Of Socrata) Google is in my opionion just an API away from blowing Socrata out of the water. Sorry to say. I like Socrata alot…
Information Architecture is the art and science of making sure that what needs to be communicated has got the chance of beeing communicated. http://twitter.com/kotrotsos
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