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• Morgan Kelly injects fear and loathing into the Irish Bank System

  
  Copacetic — Authority: 91
  I highly recommend that anyone who cares about the irish economy to read Morgan Kelly ’s “ The Irish Credit Bubble ” (pdf link). You need to blow past the economic formula in the first few pages and get into the meat of the analysis. In summary, in 2009 we opened our main parachute and a grand piano popped out ...
  5 days ago

• Bioplastech Startup Making Plastic Biodegradable

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 642
  A University College Dublin research team recently patented a process to produce biodegradable plastic from plastic bottles, and that patent has led to the formation of a company, Bioplastech Ltd., to develop, process and market the technology.Dr. Kevin O’Connor, founder and CEO of Bioplastech, led the team and the ...
  5 days ago

• LED traffic lights dont melt snow

  
  A Donkey on the Edge — Authority: 116
  Franco just sent me this utterly wonderful example of what happens when design is divorced from context-of-use: It turns out, perhaps in an homage to bad engineering everywhere, that the inefficiency of incandescent light bulbs was previously relied upon to keep traffic signals unimpeded. Also, there is just ...
  1 week ago

• Workshop: IA and collaborative design

  
  Simpler is better — Authority: 99
  I will be running a 2-day workshop on information architecture and collaborative design on the 24th and 25th March 2010 at Rydges World Square, Sydney. The workshop is titled ‘Information Architecture and Collaborative Design :The design behind the design of successful interactive products’. More details can be ...
  1 week ago

• 10 – An Introduction to User-Centered Design Techniques (for Games)

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 470
  Suze Ingram, a User Experience consultant from Australia, has succinct and interesting presentation slides about User-Centered Design (UCD) Techniques. UCD focuses on the needs (dare I say also the motivations and emotions) of people who use applications and products. This usually informs the vision and direction of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do league tables really matter? A student perspective

  
  University Blog — Authority: 431
  Bridget Fitzsimons Student journalist, UCD As a student journalist, I knew more than some of my peers about the Times Higher Education /QS World University Rankings . This year made for some excitement in my university, UCD , as we broke into the top 100 for the first time, coming in at number 89. While this is ...
  3 weeks ago

• 6 – Pleasurability, User Experience and Emotional Design

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 470
  Today, I am blogging this web seminar presentation from Frank Spillers, a usability design expert and user experience consultant who runs Experience Dynamics. The slidecast is a very interesting primer about emotional design and what he calls pleasurability of a product. For us as player researchers and game ...
  3 weeks ago

• IA tools: Storyboards

  
  Matt's Musings — Authority: 406
  Storyboards are a great way to describe a user’s journey, their thoughts, feelings, attitudes, capabilities, behaviours and expectations, throughout a single scenario. They’re light-weight, easy to do, and as a visual tool can be used in workshops or just by a couple of members of the team. They also work ...
  4 weeks ago

• Heretical Ideas – Stop Using Wireframes

  
  Man with no Blog — Authority: 106
  Over the years I have been trying to implement UX design tools and techniques into my day-to-day production cycle.   This would be very simple if all my projects where large ones with moderate size teams.   However business reality is that this is not often the case.  The projects I tend to work on, as an ...
  4 weeks ago

• What would Sally do? Personas for retail financial services

  
  dancingmango — Authority: 103
  Personas are ‘pen portraits’ that bring to life users or customers of a system, service or product.  Giving a personality and back story to your customers helps keep your thinking true to their real needs and goals.  Rather than using  ‘user’ or a segment descriptor such as ‘empty nester’, or ‘this is ...
  5 weeks ago

• Customers Site Redesign Exposes the Sad Truth about Corporate Inertia

  
  Outside Innovation — Authority: 91
  Dustin Curtis is a UI designer. He was fed up with how hard it was to book travel on American Airlines AA.com Web site. So last May, instead of complaining, he sent them a better UI design. That led to an interesting interaction with a member of the team involved in the design of the AA.com Web site. Dustin refers ...
  5 weeks ago

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