Monthly Archives: January 2008

By Alan Fletcher.

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It’s a book. A big fkn book.

It’s the kind of book that is pretty much impossible to read cover to cover. It’s not meant for that.

But, if you need some thoughts, inspirations, oddly zen quotes from non-zen peeps, this is your book.

I’ve had it for years, and constantly open to an unknown page and find something enlightening. Such as this quote from Bertolt Brecht :

“The sharks I dodged, The tigers I slew, what ate me up was the bedbugs.”

In other words, the things you don’t look for are usually the things the create problems.

Pick up the book, you will enjoy it.

I found this definition of an “event” in my girlfriends CFA certification prepatory materials and found it quite appealing.

Especially in thinking about information architecture and rich media design this definition helps to identify and enumerate how a rich UI must be cataloged.

Proper user experience evaluation is filtering a set of task outcomes available through the user interface and determining which one is most intutive for the identified target user base and/or is the most efficient stepwise.

I’ve seen some good “matrix” event tables for mouse over behaviors but there needs to be a better way to map these outcomes visually in context. Any suggestions?

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