Articles (2012)

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UI Design Blinks – Overview (2012)

Updated: February 21, 2012

Gerd Waloszek Welcome to a new column of brief, blog-like articles about various UI design topics – inspired by my daily work, conference visits, books, or just everyday life experiences.

As in a blog roll, the articles will be listed in reverse chronological order – and if the roll becomes too long, I will start a new one.

Please note that I will not be able to maintain the initial publishing speed! The articles will appear at irregular intervalls as time permits and inspiration comes...

Recent Additions

February 21, 2012: Skyline Graphs – New Insights at the Horizon...

Sorry for the blatant title of this UI Design Blink, which was inspired by a paper presentation that I missed, entitled "Telling the Data Comparison Story Using A Skyline Graph (Instead of Two Pies)". Bill Caemmerer gave it at the Interaction 2012 conference in Dublin in early February this year and introduced it with: "Just like every picture, every graph tells a story, or it should. Frequently the story we want to tell is a comparison to the past or to our plans, a 'what happened' story." ...

February 15, 2012: Sneak Preview Number Five into interaction-design.org

It's only February, yet Mads Soegaard, editor of the HCI encyclopedia, has already announced the second sneak preview into interaction-design.org for this year (and the fifth altogether). Mads writes: "We've hit a major milestone with our free educational materials: Our newest chapter is written by NY Times bestseller and Harvard professor Clayton Christensen." While he forgot to mention that the new chapter is entitled "Disruptive Innovation", he did not forget to send us the link to the sneak preview. ...

January 11, 2012: Sneak Preview Number Four into interaction-design.org

It looks as if the new year 2012 will start the same way as 2011 ended – with new additions to the HCI encyclopedia at interaction-design.org. Having returned from the holiday season, I found already a fresh e-mail in my inbox, in which Mads Soegaard, editor of the HCI encyclopedia, announced that they are preparing the publication of a new chapter, entitled "Affective Computing". And once again, they offer SAP Design Guild readers a sneak preview into the new chapter, which took Kristina Höök from Stockholm University, Sweden, 18 months to write. ...