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InfoResources—Descriptions from site

UX Pioneers: “Aims to reveal the motivations and perspectives of key players in the User Experience industry through in-depth interviews and discussions with the site's publisher, Tamara Adlin.”
 

  community  

Alternative Pick: "Source for creative talent and information."
Added 04292002

CHI-WEB: "An ACM SIGCHI (Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group Human Computer Interaction) moderated discussion list on the human factor aspects of the World Wide Web."
Added 02052003

Citizen Design—Social Issues in Design: "This is a forum for designers, design educators, design students and those from affiliated fields. Design is never completely neutral. Both good and bad design make a difference (or cause problems). By exchanging ideas the organisers of this discussion forum hope to explore the fundamental underpinnings of what makes graphic design, 2D design and other cross over areas of design like signage and digital mediaóan important conveyer of political, social, or cultural change. How is design a means of political and social communication?"
Added 08192002

Computer Love
Added 06202002

Creators Channel: "Creators, students aiming to become creators, users, and clients. The Creators Channel is a gathering place for anyone involved in creative work."
Added 12282001

Cut&Paste: "A global movement of artists, firms, and media that come together to strengthen creative networks through events and local support."
Added 02172008

DesignBox: "Define a gathering space for great creative talent from a variety of design disciplines like graphic design, product design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, illustration, copywriting, marketing strategy, etc."
Added 07132005

designerID: "Web-based, virtual design community serving designers, design students and schools, organizations and suppliers. It provides members with an easy-to-use way to stay in touch with fellow designers and an easy-to-search design library."
Added 04012007

designers talk: "Web design forums for designers to website design."
Added 04012007

Interactive Learning Resource Center—Community for Interactive Training Development
Added 02282003

Quality of Experience: "An online learning community, dedicated to optimizing the e-Business experience."
Added 05312002

Refresh: "Community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards."
Added 01052008

Reluct.com: "Design news and weblog."
Added 07112004

xChicago: "A community established to provide means of crossover between the digital artists and technology professionals in Chicago."
Added 06212003
 

  education

3d&i: "A new website that has games, sharing between kids, and stories-all about design and the visual world. It's targeted especially to 9-12 year olds."
Added 11142003

Creativity Workshop: "Established in 1993 and is commited to helping individuals believe in and develop their creative process through using creative writing, art, memoir, storytelling, drama, journaling and map making exercises intended to become the tools for a lifetime. People from all different disciplines, interests and levels of experience, come together to explore their imaginations."
Added 07112004

Design as Seeing as Thinking: "Istanbul Interaction Design Workshop. Focus will be to enhance the quality of Teaching by young instructors in interactive media design through developing their knowledge base of the principles of design and the process of problem finding and problem solving."
Added 11062005

Frontend Usability InfoCentre: "Contains regularly updated features and advice on topics relating to usability. We also illustrate the dos and don'ts of interface and application design with our comprehensive web review site."
Added 05312002

Graduate School List from Gradschools.com.
Added 07052001

HCI Bibliography: "A free-access online bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction. The basic goal of the Project is to put an electronic bibliography for most of HCI on the screens of all researchers, developers, educators and students in the field through the World-Wide Web and anonymous FTP access."
Added 05312002

Human Interaction Design Protocol:"HIDP ia an online educational resource portal for programmers, designers and educators to bridge the gap, open communication and foster collaboration through the following stepsóEducation, Integration, Collaboration and Resources."
Added 06192002

Interaction Design in Wikipedia.
Added 12302005

Interactive Educational Multimedia
Added 05282004

Sensebox.com: "A collection of resources related to Education in Graphic Design and New Media. The site is comprised of an extensive listing of direct links to graphic design schools in the US and worldwide, a message board focused on education issues, a graphic design quiz or two, and a series of web polls on topical issues."

Smart Experience: "Internet, Mobile, and Software Classes in New York City"
Added 09162007

Usability First™: "Provides information and resources for key issues related to usability in website and software design. We believe that helping people do their work in an effective and enjoyable way should be the top priority in design because if a product is not usable, people will not use it."

UX Pioneers: "Aims to reveal the motivations and perspectives of key players in the User Experience industry through in-depth interviews and discussions with the site's publisher, Tamara Adlin."
Added 09162007

Web Standards for Skeptics: "Presentations by Michael Montgomery"
Added 12282007

Welie.com: "Patterns in interaction design by Martin van Welie"
Added 05132007

 

  events  

Blog Action Day: "One Issue. One Day. Thousands of Voices."
Added 12112007

Conferences and Workshops from HCI Index.
Added 02052003

Conferences and Seminars from Communication Arts.
Added 08132001

cr824: "Web design international festival and 24-hour competition."
Added 09282005

dConstruct: "An affordable, one-day conference aimed at those designing and building the latest generation of web-based applications"
Added 11182007

Dutch Design Events: "An independent site, designed and managed by the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York. Purpose of this site is to provide information on events throughout the USA involving Dutch design."
Added 05312002

EXP3: "The only conference—the only experience—that focuses on the how—not just the why and what. We bring together every segment of the experiential industry to create the comprehensive conference for both Thinkers and Doers."
Added 05292004

Future of Web Apps
Added 11182007

Globaldesignonline.com's U.S. and International Design Events
Added 02092003

Got Social Media: "Bringing together some of the top minds in Social Media, Technology, Design, and Marketing—Got Social Media is a one-day event covering topics like: Social Media for Businesses, Women in Social Media, Social Media Technology Platforms, and more."
Added 01232008

IDEA: "A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds."
Added 09162007

Knowledge Circuit: "Scans design and new media conferences around the world, tracking emerging ideas and practitioners in all design disciplines."
Added 11072004

Metropolis magazine's U.S. and International Design Events
Added 02092003

OneWebDay: "One day a year when we all—everyone around the physical globe—can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities."
Added 10072007

Ubiquitous Computing Conference Series: "Provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives."
Added 12312007

User Interface 12: "User Interface Engineering's Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created User Interface 12 for designers, information architects, and usability professionals who need to tackle their biggest design challenges."
Added 10262007

Web Community forum: "A site and event series dedicated to supporting and fostering online community building best practices"
Added 11182007

Webstock: "Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration."
Added 12282007

World Usability Day: "Created to help everyone know more about the ways to help create a better user experience of our world. Promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design,and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better."
Added 10222005
 

  news  

UsabilityNews.com: "Bringing you all the latest within the field of usability."
Added 02092003

WOW Technology Minute: "To impart a 60 second digest of news, facts and editorial. It’s our mission to help web professionals and business leaders everywhere understand and harness the dynamic nature of the internet."
Added 02032008
 

  organizations  

American Institute of Graphic Arts: "The purpose of AIGA is to further excellence in communication design as a broadly defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice."

American Society for Information Science and Technology: "ASIST has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information."
Added 08242001

Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsiblity: "ADPSR has a sixteen year history of educating design professionals and the public about critical social and environmental issues. Although established with a disarmament focus, during the last nine years ADPSR has expanded its concerns to include the protection of the natural and built environment, and the promotion of ecologically and socially responsible development"
Added 02092003

Association for Computing MachineryóSpecial Interest Group Human Computer Interaction: "ACM SIGCHI brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use; provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI)."
Added 08242001

Association for Women in Communications: "AWC champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era."
Added 05292002

Corporate Design Foundation: "Corporate Design Foundation is a nonprofit educational and research organization founded on the belief that individual and organizational interests can best be served through the effective use of design disciplines: product design, communication design and architecture."

Design and Technology Association: "DATA's over arching commitment is to secure, develop and augment excellence in design and technology education, thereby enabling individuals, institutions and communities to achieve their maximum potential."
Added 03252003

Design Business Association: "DBA exists to promote professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design which improves the quality of people's lives."
Added 08282004

Design Council: "To 'inspire and enable the best use of design by the UK, in the world context, to improve prosperity and well-being.'"
Added 03272004

Design for the World: "An international humanitarian organisation whose objective is to match the skills and commitment of volunteer designers with the needs expressed by disadvantaged populations and the organisations that serve them worldwide. Design for the World unites graphic designers, industrial designers and interior and architectural designers around one common idea: voluntary design for people in need."
Added 11202002

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: "HFES's mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds."
Added 08242001

Icograda: "The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) is the professional world body for graphic design and visual communications. Icograda unifies the voice of graphic and communication designers worldwide and promotes their vital role in commerce and society."

Inter-Society Color Council: "The ISCC is the principal professional society in the field of color in the United States, encompassing the arts, sciences and industry..."
Added 06142002

International Communication Association: "ICA is an international association for scholars interested in the study of all aspects of human communication, as well as in the teaching of communication."
Added 05292002

International Federation for Information Processing: "IFIP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of Information Technology for the benefit of all people."
Added 05292002

The Internet Technical Group: "ITG will create a community for professionals from industry, academia and government organizations who share a common interest in Internet technologies and related behavioral phenomena."
Added 05292002

Society for News Design: "Our membership is comprised of editors, designers, graphic artists, publishers, illustrators, art directors, photographers, advertising artists, Website designers, students and faculty. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in journalism and design."
Added 05302002

Society for Technical Communication: "STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication—it is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its 25,000 members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, videographers, multimedia artists, Web and Intranet page information designers, translators and others whose work involves making technical information available to those who need it."

Usability Professionals' Association: "UPA was formed provide a network and opportunities through which usability professionals can communicate and share information about skills and skill development, methodology used and/or proposed in the profession, tools, technology, and organizational issues. ..."
Added 05292002

The Web Standards Project: "The WSP is a coalition of web developers and users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading browser makers that standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to all."
Added 07102001
   

  practice  

ADAM: "Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway"
Added 12232004

An On-Line Color Thesaurus
Added 11042007

Articles and Design Tools and Resources by User Interface Engineering
Added 02052003

Argus Center for Information Architecture

Design Interact: "Created to be the premiere source of information and inspiration for the field of interactive media. Directed toward information architects, designers and programmers, a combination of news and feature articles explore the creativity and technology necessary for the completion of successful interactive media projects."
Added 07262001

Designflavr: "The concept behind this website is to help support the vast and ever growing number of Designers and Artists that reside here on the World Wide Web."
Added 02232008

digital thread: "Digital artist's design and production resource."

Elements of Design: "A different type of web design showcase focusing on specific aspects of web design."
Added 12112007

eFuse.com: "The friendly place to learn how to build a better website."

Graphics IQ: "The get-smart site for designers dedicated to keeping Print and Web designers knowledgeable, current and competitive by providing the latest information on emerging technologies, products and industry trends."
Added 06012001

History of the Button: "Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond."
Added 09302007

IBM's Ease of Use: "Vital to the success of most products and services. The user experience directly affects sales, service cost, productive use, customer loyalty and almost every other aspect of doing business. This site addresses the challenge of creating great user experiences through the discipline of User Engineering, supported by design guidelines, tools, services and other relevant materials."
Added 05312002

Interaction-Design.org: "HCI, Information Architecture, User Experience and more"
Added 09082007

Konigi: "Knowledge Sharing & Competitive Research for User Experience Design"
Added 02162008

Nice Web Type: "One place for web typography, leveraging our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice."
Added 02022008

No Ideas But In Things: "A library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator."
Added 09302007

Qfolio: "Online portfolio building and hosting for creative professionals has simplified the process of getting your creative portfolio on the internet. Work directly with your very own Personal Portfolio Designer. Together, you'll create a stand-alone portfolio website which features You and Your Work alone."
Added 08082003

Sustainable Web Design: "The concept of a sustainable Web is not necessarily familiar to us. In fact, the Web that most of us know is anything but sustainable."
Added 02102008

TrendWatch: "Specializes in providing accurate market trends and market sizing information for the graphics markets. TrendWatch is recognized worldwide as the 'go to' brand for reliable market trends and analysis."
Added 10022001

Typesites: "A weekly showcase of websites with interesting typographic design."
Added 06012008

TYPOTOPO: "This site represents the space where typography and topography overlap: explorations of type in virtual environments, experiments in mapping, and innovations in textual display."
Added 01292008

Usability.gov of the National Cancer Institute: "This site is designed to provide current and accurate information on how to make health-related information Web sites and other user interfaces more usable, accessible, and useful."
Added 02052003

Usable Web: "A guide to resources about Web usability, about making the Web easier to use."
Added 08032001

useit.com: "[Web usability specialist] Jakob Nielsen's website."

wear palettes: "Do you like the great colours on Sartorialist's photos? I collected about 1500 different palettes extrapolated from his clothing pictures and I update everyday with the new ones."
Added 01202008

Web Designer Wall: "A wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials"
Added 12092007

Web Page Design for Designers: "It is aimed at people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium."

Yale Web Style Guide
Added 02012002
   

  publications  

.net magazine Added 02022008
Apple Media Arts Added 06052001
ClickZ Added 06032002
D/visible Added 1202007
Digital Web Added 05302002
EContent Added 05312002
eDesign Added 04042002
Design Philosophy Papers Added 02222004
Design Theme from Fast Company
GUUUI Added 05312002
HCI Journal Added 05312002
interactions of ACM Added 08242001
Macromedia EDGE Added 06102001
METROPOLIS
Netdiver Magazine Added 07062007
Publish
Scene 360, the online film and arts magazine Added 02012008
Smashing Magazine Added 06092007
Ubiquity of ACM Added 05312002
Usability Interface of the STC Added 05312002
Web Review Added 05312002
Web Monkey Added 06032002
 

 

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