Archive for the 'Resources' topic

Video: Hans Rosling Using Very Cool InfoViz to Describe World Health

Hans Rosling is a professor of International Health at the Karolinka Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. At TED, he presented probably one of the coolest information visualization talks you’ll ever see. He really shows what you can do when you pay attention to how you describe the story with charts.

9/22 - 9/23: Webmaster Jam Session 2006 - Dallas

If you’re in Dallas on Friday 9/22 and 9/23, I’ll be speaking at a free* conference called WebMaster Jam Session on how to design for the Scent of Information.

Streamlining UX Increases Conversion By 20%

More evidence that streamlining the user experience can impact the bottom line.

David (Heller) Malouf Records MarketingMonger Podcast

Eric Mattson has done another excellent podcast, in his quest to record 1000(!) of them, this time with UI11 speaker David (Heller) Malouf

Resources for Adventurous Usability Techniques

In Christine Perfetti’s Virtual Seminar today, she mentioned some resources I thought people would want to know about.

Conference: User Friendly 2006, Hangzhou China, 11/3/06 - 11/5/2006

If you find yourself near Hangzhou in early November, you should definitely check this out.

OZ IA 2006 Program Looks Great

If you’re going to be in the Sydney area at the end of September, you definitely should check this conference out.

Luke Wroblewski on Refining Data Tables

In today’s UX Matters, Luke Wroblewski, a UI11 speaker, published a great article on the design of data tables in web applications.

MarketingMonger Podcast

Recently, I was interviewed by Eric Mattson as part of his MarketingMonger podcast series.
It was a lot of fun and we got into some interesting discussion. You can hear the podcast here.

Good Listen — Design Critique Podcast

Tom Brink (a former User Interface Conference speaker) and Tim Keirnan have put together a wonderful podcast where they critique the designs of various products they’ve used. They do a nice job of stepping away from opinions and looking at design principles.