http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Awhile back there was this post about an awesome wavegraph visualization of music artist frequency as reported to Last.fm. An almost-as-good way to generate the chart for yourself showed up here.  The service seems to be pretty back-logged now, but I created a test chart from about two weeks of data in March.Click for the ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/20 Concept Models Dan Brown concept models represent nouns as circles connected by lines that are verbs Steps: gather concepts (make a list of nouns from your requirements list, more is better, be complete) start creating connections research and elaborate concepts validate concepts and connections (with others) economizing connections - analyze and reduce redundancy be as transparent as possible in ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/17 Alan Cooper’s Keynote: An Insurgency of Quality first to market vs. best to market - business guys tend to only see first to market because they don’t know how to get best to market; this is what we know we are craftsmen list of features does not equal a product summary - it’s ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/14 Effective Prototyping Jonathan Arnowitz bill buxton talked about choosing the right fidelity difference between prototyping and sketching? a prototype is a model of a design that is: complete or incomplete portraying specific content and fidelity for a specific planned purpose ... prototyping is NOT formalized, manageable, predictable, professional empower everyone to prototype, everyone has great ideas, but the designer needs ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/13 Don’t Make Me Click Aza Raskin - aza@mozilla.com to the user, the interface is the product the best interface is no interface (NFI = no fucking interface) what’s better than a shovel? a hole 90% of the feature requests for Word are for features that already exist - the difference is a usable feature google calculates, ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/12 Designing Information Ahn Dang Nirali Patel information visualization 1 visual representation of data interactive amplifies cognition visualization highlights patterns and relationships in the data patterns and relationships pull together a common knowledge to help you understand what the information is we’re looking at assign data types, for example from conference attendees: quantitative: #of attendees nominal: gender, city, state, country ordinal: city, state, ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/11 Classic Design Movements and IxD Chris Bernard www.designthinkingdigest.com slides will be on slideshare graphic design three movts that matter a lot (to us): surrealism, de stijl, constructivism why is bahaus important to us? it was the first movt to truly focus on design as a craft that could be delivered via repeatable process bauhaus recognized the relationship ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/10 Dramatic Features Chris Conley designing drama into the interface catching people’s imagination an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances we know these four components of product design: function - does it work usability - can people use it aesthetics - is it nice to look at drama - is it meaningful <-- focusing ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/9 Concept Development for Product Design Gretchen Anderson dealing with cross-discipline people Developing a concept: commander’s intent (from some book) - set an intention so that all stakeholders can buy in boxes and arrows aren’t a universal language (flow charts tend to not work to communicate with other disciplines) you have to design before you prototype, otherwise ... http://www.linusgraybill.com/blog/archives/8