Slideshare has a slideshow from edanzico, posted 2 months ago that showcases user testing for the wordpress 2.5 admin panel, as well as the process and parameters for prototyping a new admin panel.
Surfaceware is a concept that involves interactive live surfaces in the surrounding environment.
Link to the download page - http://www.flashbulbinteraction.com/WTS.html
To a large extent you can judge a book by its cover. Especially if it’s not a book, and is a pdf about interfaces. The whole document - “100 ideas for envisioning powerful, engaging, and productive user experiences in knowledge work” is beautifully laid out, and each section is colour coded according to the chapter. The document itself is evidence of the process of considered IA / IXD / UI / UX, and is available in three accessible formats: Standard PDF, PDF print card version, and online as an html version. It’s a big read, and I’m looking forward to getting into it, as the introduction is compelling:
Extensive concepting, based on intensive questioning, driving visionary, collaboratively defined strategies for exemplary tools for thought.
This statement is broken down into a number of suggestions for product teams and it certainly whets the appetite.
I love Firefox, and it’s mostly because of the plugins. Firefox is fast becoming my only tool for the web as it covers so many bases with Fire FTP, CSS and html editors, debugging tools, developer and designer plugins, administration tools, local program controls and social networking monitors to name but a few. A picture is better than words for this - and it only took about a minute to install at a svelt 400 od kilobites.
I'm an Information Architect working in Wellington New Zealand who deals a lot with web standards, conventions and best practice every day. This is the place where I place findings, musings and facts as a repository for myself and anyone else who might benefit.
