Category Archives: interaction design

FIG Evaluation – The New Dilbert.com

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Rob Adams

(Disclaimer – as always, the opinions expressed below are my own and are not necessarily shared by my employer.) Dilbert.com recently relaunched with a new site design that uses primarily Flash. Good technology choice. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone … Continue reading →

enabled=”false” Considered Harmful

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Rob Adams

Oftentimes when designing applications, certain functionality needs to be present in some situations but not in others. The traditional way of dealing with this on the desktop is to enable the controls that provide access to that functionality when it … Continue reading →

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Get Your Design Out of My Content

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Rob Adams

On Monday, I attended a course taught by Edward Tufte on Presenting Data and Information. I’ve flirted with Tufte’s ideas before, and Tufte fans may recognize some of them from Designing for Flex part 5 – Designing content displays. This … Continue reading →

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RIA Accessibility and the Law

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Rob Adams

I found an interesting news article on the IxDA list today concerning an accessibility lawsuit brought against Target by the National Federation of the Blind. One of the findings of the federal district court was that “web sites such as … Continue reading →

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MAX Talk: Creating Learnable Applications

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Rob Adams

Thanks to everyone who attended Stephen and I’s talk at MAX 2006; I thought it went pretty well and we already received some great feedback. I’m looking forward to getting the reviews! Since I’m not sure if the organizers are … Continue reading →

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Ideas in the World

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Rob Adams

My friend Dan has started a little blog project called “No Ideas But In Things”. Although the name is quite a mouthful (it’s inspired by a poem) I love his premise. Basically Dan is collecting pictures of artifacts out in … Continue reading →

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