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Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

One comment Design + Interface + Radio + TV + Usability + Web 2.0

Reading Kosmar's blog I found a link to The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. With such an appealing title I couldn't help clicking on it, only to land on Tomski's website, a blog about traditional and new media with particular attention to the BBC, Tomki's employer. As Tomski puts it: Required verbage: ...

Archives: The new kid on the blog

No comments Interface + Programming + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

As per a Xavi Vergés request in my post about the redesign of this blog, I introduced a whole new Archives section in the blog so all posts can be accessed by chronological order. I also tossed in a calendar that can be found at the bottom sidebar. All this ...

Download your iPhone now!

One comment Apple + Interface + Marketing + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

I wonder if there's still anyone who doesn't know about the new iPhone (reinventing the phone) from Apple. It was presented a couple of days ago (blogged life by engadget), it hit frontpages and every news bulletin yesterday and today Cisco is claiming that they had a trade mark on ...

I ecto therefore I blog

2 comments Blogosphere + Interface + Usability

I used to blog with Ecto, a Mac OS & Windows desktop app, in my old Expression Engine blog and after embracing the Wordpress faith I decided to go for it too. Even easier. Ecto and Wordpress blend seamlessly. First step: Setup The set up is a breeze: point Ecto to your ...

Frank Zappa plays the bicycle on Steve Allen’s TV show

No comments Music + Usability + Videoclips

A link from digg took me to YouTube where all kind of wonders can happen. I found a two part video of a young orchestra composer named Frank Zappa in a TV show from the 60s demonstrating how to play the bicycle. It is actually a true Zappa-style performance but it ...

the emotional design of emotional design

No comments Books + Design + Interface + Usability

Usability Guru Donald Norman adds emotion to reason: attracting objects work better. Escaping the Christmas shopping frenzy in Barcelona I stopped at the RAS bookstore/gallery. The truth is that it doesn’t have to be Christmas to spend a lot of money on expensive design books there. But not this time. I ...

podberry pc

No comments Interface + Mobility + Travel + Usability

Mobile devices for underground mobile users. If you have ever been in London you have no doubt spent quite some time in the London underground. Tube as they say. While some things such as the "mind the gap" reminder and the ability to read huge newspapers while standing will never change, I ...

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