interaction design

When to link, and where?

August 18, 2010, 11:14 am
The value of linking

Martin Belam has written an interesting series of posts on internal vs external linking on the Guardian’s website. His latest one summarises some of the comments and discussion that have taken place around the topic…

The tyranny of notification numbers

August 3, 2010, 5:03 pm
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Something I find interesting about design is how patterns often emerge that then get rapidly copied and widely adopted. The ‘like’ button, which I moaned about in my last post, is one of these. Another is what I’m calling ‘notification numbers’ [...]

Designing with Intent with Dan Lockton

September 17, 2009, 4:08 pm

I visited Brunel University yesterday, out in the Uxbridge suburb of London, in order to visit Dan Lockton and take part in one of his workshop research sessions. Dan’s been studying and writing about an area of design he called ‘Design with Intent’ – which in a nutshell is how design can be used to [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I’m going to be leading a half-day workshop at next year’s Museums and the Web 2009 conference, which will be focused on ‘interaction design’ for museum websites. By ‘interaction design’, I mean the practice of planning which ‘social features’ should be added to a museum website, and how these should [...]