Category: Interface

Donna, Designed for Use, Closes

Feb 1, 2014

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Design, Information Creation, Interface, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, User Experience

The impending closing of Donna has bumped a couple of thoughts to blog to the front of the queue. First off, Donna is an iOS calendaring app that focusses on one’s agenda for that day and upcoming days with a targetted focus on the transportation timing and how that impacts your day. If your life…
Resonance in Sound and Design

May 31, 2013

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Design, Devices, Interface, User Experience, Weblogs

Resonance: The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating: the resonance of his voice. The ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions: the concepts lose their emotional resonance. Listening to the lovely and haunting Dead Already from the American Beauty soundtrack by Thomas Newman in high quality recording (lossless) and…
Everynow

May 26, 2013

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Devices, Information Architecture, Interface, Reference, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

We are living in a time where there are not only many concurrent realities existing at once, but our understanding of “Now” is perhaps broader and more broken than most any time since the Middle Ages started sprouting into the Renaissance. This is nowhere more prevalent in our understanding of the future, particularly the near…
Social Design for the Enterprise Workshop in Washington, DC Area

Jun 26, 2009

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Interface, Knowledge Management, Research, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

I am finally bringing workshop to my home base, the Washington, DC area. I am putting on a my “Social Design for the Enterprise” half-day workshop on the afternoon of July 17th at Viget Labs (register from this prior link). Yes, it is a Friday in the Summer in Washington, DC area. This is the…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 2 of 2

Feb 10, 2009

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Information Architecture, Interface, Refindability, Social Software, User Experience, Web

This is the second of two posts on the subject, the first post LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 or 2 gives the lead-in to this post. Lessons To Learn Sadly, the new social functionality has broken much of worked well as an ambient social tool. More problematic was LinkedIn…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 of 2

Feb 9, 2009

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Interface, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

Why LinkedIn Needs to Have a Better Grasp of Social A heavy user of LinkedIn, I have been hearing identical complaints to my own as regular business networking event conversation fodder for the last six months or more. Light users of LinkedIn as well as those of us who have over 600 connections have nearly…
Optimizing Tagging UI for People & Search

Jan 24, 2009

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Interface, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Tools, User Experience

Overview/Intro One of my areas of focus is around social tools in the workplace (enterprise 2.0) is social bookmarking. Sadly, is does not have the reach it should as it and wiki (most enterprise focused wikis have collective voice pages (blogs) included now & enterprise blog tools have collaborative document pages (wikis). I focus a…
Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success

May 6, 2008

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Interface, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web, Weblogs

One of the things I continually run across talking with organizations deploying social tools inside their organization is the difficultly getting all the components to mesh. Nearly everybody is having or had a tough time with getting employees and partners to engage with the services, but everybody is finding out it is much more than…
Getting Info into the Field with Extension

May 2, 2008

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Community, Connectivity, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Interface, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Portability, Reference, Syndication, Technology, Tools, Web

This week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…
YouTube New Interface and Social Interaction Design Santiy Check

Apr 10, 2008

—

by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Interface, Social Software, User Experience, Web

YouTube has released a new design for the site and its individual video pages. This gets shared in Google Operating System :: User Inferface Updates at YouTube and TechCrunch :: YouTube Updates Layout, Now with Tabs and Statistics. While the new design looks nice and clean, it has one design bug that is horribly annoying…