February 2005
Some thoughts on Ajax (Feb 23, 2005)
If you haven't already seen it, go read Jesse's new essay on Ajax, or Asynchronous Javascript and XML web applications. Since I'll be talking about related topics at the IA Summit, I thought I'd throw out a few of my...
Thin-slicing user interviews (Feb 18, 2005)
One of the core ideas in Malcolm Gladwell's new book Blink is thin-slicing, our ability to make accurate judgements about people or events in a very short time frame. Early in the book Gladwell describes an experiment where strangers made...
Ceci n'est pas un sentier (Feb 10, 2005)
In a long and smart post on tagging, Shelly Powers makes a fair criticism of folksonomies and desire lines: I once wrote on an ingenous experiment in social-driven architecture, when the architects of a new building planted grass but did...
