First impressions count for web - BBC article

courtesy Saytam (in Fairfield)

Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage.

the article

mobile web design

Introducing “Mobile Web Design,” a four-part series of how-to’s and savvy conversation, arriving at your newsreader, browser, or possibly even your mobile device over the next few weeks.

traffic.com - click, look, go

http://www.traffic.com/

good business concept - the design supports the task you would do before going out of the office (before hitting the road).

link- courtesy - Prasad 'Lala' Bartakke

Conway's law - worth a ponder

conway's law:

'Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.'

the original text

Idea generation methods

Idea generation methods
well need i say more?

tools for our trade

http://iainstitute.org/tools/

Start.com

check it out: Microsoft “Gadgets” on Start.com lets you slide rectangular containers of text (widgets) around the screen, and snap them into new positions.

The site is a portal, a little like Google News or MyYahoo, but with the innovative interface as described — which does not require Flash or any other plug-in. (It works in Firefox too.)

The technology Microsoft Gadgets employs is similar to AJAX — the combination of JavaScript and dynamic server calls used by Google in many cool applications of late (Gmail, Google Maps, etc.). Apparently the new Windows will allow you to drag Gadgets from web pages and drop them onto your desktop.

The downside is that the web pages generated using Gadgets are neither accessible, standards-compliant nor search-engine friendly. But they look cool and the design is clean … so Gadgets could have potential.

the APA anatomy of sarcasm - yea right

The anatomy of sarcasm: Researchers reveal how the brain handles this complex communication

Socionics

Socionics is based upon the idea that a person's character acts like a set of blocks called "psychological functions". Different ways of combining and chaining these functions result in different ways of accepting and producing information, which in turn results in different behavior patterns and thus different character types.

Socionics.com

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