Are You Passionate About Interaction Design and Design Thinking?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Do you believe that digital means more than websites? Do you enjoy designing applications equally as much as presenting at industry conferences? Do you want to tackle  transformational initiatives for some of the best know brands in the world? Do you feel ready to lead an innovative team of interaction ...

Enter the Zooming User Interface (ZUI): Spatial Expirements On Rise

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Mia Northrop

The ZUI, or zooming user interface, seems to be on the rise as websites with 3D aspects to them proliferate. ZUIs fundamentally change the feel of a site: sometimes with great affect, other times with mixed results. WHITEvoid, a firm that creates interactive installations and draws from the disciplines of interaction ...

IA Summit 2008: Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?

Friday, April 11th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Here's the presentation that I'm giving at the IA Summit in Miami on consumer behavior and Web 2.0. It's called Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?: Research To Help Separate Web 2.0’s Hits From Hype and is an evolution of the consumer behavior research we did late-last year. From ...

Scrolling Enthusiasts, Unite!

Friday, March 21st, 2008 by Mia Northrop

Once upon a time, long pages that forced users to scroll were anathema. 'Nobody looks below the fold,' design stakeholders cried. 'But if it's useful content they will!', others retorted.Finally, most people got over it. Now we see well signposted pages -- bolding, bullets, heading structures -- with strong information ...