http://www.cognitivefriction.net User Experience Design Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:39:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey! UCD! if you are going to advertise on Facebook, at least check your spelling before posting: [caption id="attachment_115" align="aligncenter" width="161" caption="Conficius Institute? Doh!."][/caption] This is a cheap shot, I know, it's so easy to make this sort of mistake. But these details matter, especially in Ad copy, and it's just as ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/09/24/hey-ucd-check-your-spelling/ If you've ever done any card sorting, you'll know what a pain in the ass it is to make notes during the session and to analyse the data afterwards. There are a few decent spreadsheets for data analysis in circulation, but if you want a fancy dendrogram from the data ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/09/19/xsort-now-available-for-free-download/ Today I'll be heading up to the Black North to attend a lecture at the Queens University of Belfast entitled Design Thinking for Innovation: Treat Your Company, Your Team, Your Products as Prototypes. It will be delivered by Michael Dearing, an associate professor at the Design School at Stanford University. Michael ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/09/02/design-thinking-for-innovation-lecture/ I've had the iPhone 3G for about two weeks now, and patterns of use are starting to emerge, apart from the obvious: making calls, sending texts and checking email. Although, even here, buying the phone has led to some changes. For example, I made an effort to rationalise, synchronise and ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/17/the-iphone-3g-in-use/ I came across Jeff Gomez' book Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age while browsing through Hodges Figgis the other day. I couldn't help but savour the irony that Gomez' work came as a rather large chunk of dead tree. Reports of the death of print are frequent and ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/14/report-of-the-death-of-print-wildly-exaggerated/