December 2011
8 posts
The Anatomy of an Experience Map - Adaptive Path →
Experience maps have become more prominent over the past few years, largely because companies are realizing the interconnectedness of the cross-channel experience. It’s becoming increasingly useful…
The Impending Death of Information Architecture «... →
Why IA is bad for you. Writes Joshua Porter: “the term “information architecture” has over time come to encompass, as suggested by its principal promoters, nearly every facet of not just web design,…
singsign on Instagrid →
Just a neat way to see instagrams,…
Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use... →
Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all? Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new…
Communities, technology, and civic intelligence →
Although a broad paradigm shift may ultimately be necessary if humankind is to make progress addressing the problems it has created for itself, Web 2.0 with its focus on business seems unlikely to…
Understanding Cultural Landscapes: some... →
Useful definitions and examples of cultural or “vernacular” landscapes. “A cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the…
Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants →
Ito sums it up quite nicely: “The ethos of the Internet is that everyone should have the freedom to connect, to innovate, to program, without asking permission. No one can know the whole of the…
November 2011
15 posts
Global Warning: The Arctic’s Abandoned DEW Line... →
Back in the 1950s, Cold War tensions ran high and so did the DEW Line: high above the Arctic Circle, that is. Though many of the original 63 radar stations have been re-purposed or dismantled, many…
On Culture and Interaction Design: an interview... →
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
Klout is bad for your soul →
Klout is bad for your soul. The social media tool is being taken up as an actual measure of value and influence. And we should be wary…
Interaction design and design synthesis. →
Semioticon.com →
Semiotics resource heaven!!! Says the site: “The purpose of this site is to provide innovative, responsible and reliable knowledge in a variety of domains relevant to semiotics understood as the…
Everything you'd rather not have known about Brian... →
It was with a certain apprehensive curiosity that I first noticed the brown lace-up shoes. He displayed a normalcy that I just couldn’t trust. After all, I’d seen his photos and I knew I was dealing…
Fremtidens Rejsebehov - en rapport →
Danmark befinder sig på et stærkt konkurrerende marked for rejser og oplevelsestilbud. Forbrugerne orienterer sig globalt, verden er blevet mindre og det er både nemmere og billigere at rejse til den…
October 2011
41 posts
An open letter to Jakob Nielsen →
Says Clay Shrirky back in 1999: Jakob Nielsen and I have come down on opposite sides of a usability debate. Jakob believes that the prevalence of bad design on the Web is an indication that the…
Tourism Place →
The Tourism Geographies (the journal) blog
Henry ind i landskabet →
…han bukker og takker og går ud igen…
