Mommy, what's a pattern library?

• Interaction Design Patterns — maintained by Tom Erickson
  (tags: Interaction patterns design usability HCI ui reference UX webdesign web interface language)
• UI Patterns and Techniques: About Patterns
  another ui pattern resource
  (tags: patterns ui-patterns webdesign design interface reference)
• Interaction design pattern – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: design patterns wikipedia interaction DesignPatterns interactiondesign informationarchitecture reference)
• www.welie.com — patterns in Interaction Design
  (tags: patterns design webdesign web ui webdev informationarchitecture IA interface interactiondesign interaction UX theory)
• About the Book – Designing Interfaces
  Tidwell’s seminal book based on her common ground site and earlier paper
  (tags: design patterns UI Usability interface gui books book IA howto information interaction interactiondesign reference)
• User Interface Design Patterns: Introduction
  (tags: design ui patterns interface gui webdesign DesignPatterns reference information informationarchitecture interaction interactiondesign theory)

links for 2007-01-29

• The History of XMLHTTP , and Patience – Nate Koechley’s Blog
  (tags: ajax xmlhttp xml outlook ria webapp webservice)

Million-dollar product ideas

Here’s three ideas for products that will make you millions if you can figure out how to manufacture and sell them:

1. Self-disentangling (or non-tangling) iPod earbud cords
2. Ear grease cleaner for mobile phones
3. A remote that mutes the TV as it turns on its power.

Send me a thank you note when you make your first million.

links for 2007-01-26

• Unmasking Digital Identities …
  (tags: identity digitalid privacy)

links for 2007-01-25

• What are stealth settings and how do I use them? – Yahoo! Messenger
  (tags: presence IM)
• Tagging’s Hip in 07 at Rareface
  (tags: tags tagging ego)
• Phil Windley’s Technometria | MicroID Plugin for MovableType
  (tags: microID identity digitalID claim blog microcontent plugin microformats extension)
• Flickr Photos – MT (Movable Type) Hacks
  widget for mt sidebar
  (tags: hacks widget MovableType MT plugins plugin blog photos flickr)

Pardon our dust

I got tired of the old design and wanted to take advantage of some of the new-er features of the blog software I’m using, so I’ve temporarily redone the design with one of their canned themes. Soon I’ll start tweaking the typography and colors and spacing and such and adding back in some of the features stranded in the old design.

User experience is not about brands, is it?

Peterme fights the good fight in Experience design is not about brands at the AP blog, defending “experience” jargon from the grasping advertising types.

Blogs due for an information design overhaul?

John Battelle’s Searchblog: The Blog Merchandising Problem, or, Blogs, V 2.0 (2.1? 3.0?)… (via Jay Fienberg)
The great power of blogs has always been simplicity, but are we ready to go to the next step?

Another theory of the origin of the name Yahoo

Rodney Koeneke hears it came from Junglee, a Bollywood film from 1961.

Today ze show, tomorrow ze world!

Unsurprisingly, Ze Frank is going all Hollywood in the near future.
Last year at SXSW (at least I think it was last year, and not 2005), I ended up going out to dinner with my Austin guru, some folks from WorldChanging, and I think David Pescovitz or maybe I just chatted with him at some party later on, and a very tall witty guy who I felt like I should know but didn’t, who was talking about the work he was doing mainly giving talks on creativity.
It was much later (that night) that I realized this was Ze Frank, the Ze Frank. Probably because he is so much taller than I, the angle on his face was different from his usual bug-eyed unblinking full frontal in his videos and more recently on The Show.
I’m kind of glad I didn’t recognize him and go all fanboy. Instead I probably acted aloof, and that’s cool, right? After all, did he really want another person saying, “Hey, I got your How to Dance animated gif forwarded to me back in the day. I’ve been a big fan for yea long!”
Meanwhile, he is a creative force of nature who should make me feel envious and insecure but who instead inspires me not to get hooked on brain crack and I’m not surprised he is about to cross over to the mainstream and I’m sure he’ll knock him dead in Hollywood town.