Et foredrag med Paul Annet er et visuelt bombardement av kule, ”magiske” designeffekter. Og det føles liksom helt naturlig med en gorilla på scenen.

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Chris Thorne from BBC held an interesting speech on the IA Summit regarding the importance of persistent URIs in building a semantic web.
What is the semantic web?
The Internet is designed to be understood by humans, not computers. When reading the word “Apple”, the first thing that comes to mind may be a fruit, an electronics [...]

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“Mobile Search is just growing in importance”.   (Peter Morville, IA Summit 2009)
Browsing and searching are often tightly interwened, and that will most likely only increase. Especially on mobile phones.
We are already overwhelmed by information overload. When surfing on a mobile phone, finding the right information, and being able to process it, can be even more [...]

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Everything is bigger in Texas! The SXSW interactive festival is huge, it is amazing and we want to come back. How can a set of geek-talks feel like a rock festival?
Facts and Figures

Approximately 300 talks, panels, interviews and bookreadings.
Over 700 speakers and panellists
The rumour is that there are mer than 12.000 attendees for the interactive [...]

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My heroine in professional blogging has long been Kathy Sierra. Creating Passionate Users was always an inspiring read.
I love the style of her illustrations, which is why I’ve included several in this post. It was a real shame what happened to Kathy Sierra, depriving us of further posts on this blog.
To my delight, Kathy Sierra [...]

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First of all, this post is dedicated to Live whose birthday it is today (still, our time, yesterday Norwegian time). Happy birthday from Kari & Synve!
Finally! Having attended three previous panel debates, I was hesitant about going to another one. However, the title “Is spec work evil? The online creative community speaks” piqued my interest. [...]

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Scroll through your video libary by waving your hand in the air. Press fast forward by spinning your hand faster and faster og copy documents by rubbing a screen. These types of interactions have for a long time been confined to the research labs or the science fiction movies. Gabriel White from Punchcut talked about [...]

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By Kari & Synve

Dan Willis from Sapient lured us to his talk with the catchy title “Everything you know about webdesign is wrong”. He stated that web design today is still not a design discipline in its own right. He went on to postulate “the grammar of trancendent web design”. We liked this! Read more [...]

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UN declared 2009 as the international year of reconciliation. As designers, usability professionals and information architects we are busy building interfaces so that our clients earn more money through sleek webshops, getting their message out through fancy web 2.0-ish solutions or make their workday fun through building apps that work. But, what if the client [...]

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A small percentage of web content really makes a difference. It makes the sale, delivers the service, and builds the brand. This is the killer Web content. It probably represents less than 10% of content published on the Web, because – let’s face it – most content just gets in the way.

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