Wordle as a Design Research Communication Tool

Wordle as a Design Research Communication Tool

I recently interviewed someone that used Wordle for the cover of their portfolio. Intrigued, I thought I would check it out for myself. (Excuse me if I’m behind the times on this one.) From Wordle’s website… Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to [...]

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Still Surfacing – More of manifest’s MS Surface Table Application from interaction ’09

I have to admit, it’s pretty damn cool to see the impact of your work in action. Especially the comments, opinions and feedback from people you don’t even know. Case in point – our manifest team continues to discover more content posted to the great Interweb about the Microsoft Surface Table application we built for [...]

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Context is Critical – Especially in Your Checking Account

Context is Critical – Especially in Your Checking Account

I bank online, have been for a very long time. It’s great and makes me feel good about saving some trees from all the paper I previously would receive. And, I do have to hand it to many of the financial services companies, my bank included, as they’ve made great strides in the past few [...]

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Great UX Poster Explaning Process

Great UX Poster Explaning Process

I’m out of the office this week onsite with a potential client. Walking around the office I noticed the ol’ Usability Professional Association’s (UPA) poster, “Designing he User Experience”, that my client had outside his cube. I’ve always enjoyed this poster as I think it nicely communicates a basic user-centered design approach. I’m also a [...]

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Our Surface Table Application and Badges Are Mentioned. Cool!

After what seemed a whirlwind of crazy awesomeness, I arrived back home from the IxDA interaction 09 conference last night. In the midst of playing some catch up today from being out of the office, I decided to scour the Internet a bit looking for comments and feedback about manifest’s sponsorship of interaction 09 and [...]

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