http://te.chni.ca/waypoint like taillights, only cooler Tue, 01 May 2007 15:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my final research project I am exploring the nature of collecting and archiving media, specifically cassette tapes. As their time has passed, I feel it timely to look back, gather up those dusty shoe boxes one last time, and see if there are any informational design goodies ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=39 Well that took forever. This turned out to be a very small sample, and of a highly informed and biased group. Furthermore, because of some new policies at SFU, the survey tool SurveyMonkey no longer complies with the universities regulations regarding the Patriot Act, and these results can NOT ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=38 update 04/11/06: there seemed to be a problem with the survey closing too soon, it is now open till the end of april. thanks. Our presentation was last monday, and all went fairly according to plan. Anthony and myself were pleased with the turnout and response, ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=37 The IA summit starts tomorrow… this feels like the xmas eve when i was 8 or something. Too bad I was not able to attend any of the pre confernce workshops, but I’ll will be scouring the blogs looking for details on how that went. Earlier this week, Phillip Jeffery ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=35 An excellent discussion emerged on rashmi’s blog about the website 83 degrees, and its use of a tagcloud for general navigation . Overall the respondants feel its a bit too unreliable for serious usability, but has some potential to augment the more structured flow of a web site. The ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=32 Your post on colour tagging got me to thinking about labels in the Mac OS. For as long as I can remember (well at least system 7), Apple has provided the user with the ability to apply a coloured label to any file on the system. By default, the labels ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=31 These were some concepts we wanted to see in a mock up. Currently I am thinking of other ways icons could be more utilized in tagging user interfaces. Phillip J. got me thinking, about the idea of what he calls egotagging during our discussion at northern voice earlier this ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=29 Two more sketches, both attempts to combine the typical cloud and the associated tags into a single cloud element. The relationship is determined by the number of resources each tag share together, compared to the number of neighbours that tag has has over all resources. Sketch 1: The default view is a ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=28 Recently, Anthony and I have discussed using the tagcloud for an input interface, as opposed to merely a feedback mechanism that visualizes a collection of resources. Could tag clouds become the common UI for browsing large collections of data as well as organizing and sorting them? A few links that ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=27 Design Theory Tag Clouds User Interface The elements of design are the basic building blocks or toolkit of the visual 2d artist. This is a list of the most common elements as they are understood in the field. We are thinking of tagclouds in terms of there overall relationship to the elements and ... http://te.chni.ca/waypoint/?p=26