Archive for January, 2009
Ergonomics for interaction designers
Jan 26th
This series of articles from Rob Tannen at Designing for Humans discusses how a knowledge of ergonomics can be increasingly helpful to people working in interaction design. Ergonomics considers the suitability of physically extant products to the human form in all its varieties. As a result it’s not historically been very relevant to interaction designers, [...]
Presidential inauguration – Twitter visualisation
Jan 23rd
This animated map from FlowingData shows the global location of each Twitter post tagged as #inauguration between Monday and Wednesday this week. Although the world map isn’t shown, over time the US and the UK become almost perfectly defined by the density of Twitter post markers. You can also see outlines of south America and [...]
