Saturday, May 25

Personas
Personas: Matching a Design to the Users' Goals
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Friday, May 24

What is Universal Design- Principles of UD
The authors, a working group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers, collaborated to establish the following Principles of Universal Design to guide a wide range of design disciplines including environments, products, and communications. These seven principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.
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Friday, May 3

Information Visualization Resources
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HCM and Visual tools in Health Care
Well, the Health Career Model (HCM) for Nursing Practice is not too close to design tasks at the first glance. Taka a look at the key words of this site: visualization; visual literacy; images; tools; imagery - literature
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Fuzzy Cognitive Map Modeler
Fuzzy cognitive maps were originally proposed as a means of explaining political decision making processes. They have been developed in the world of soft computing. FCMs combine the robust properties of fuzzy logic and neural networks. Variable concepts are represented by nodes in a directed graph. The graph's edges are the casual influences between the concepts. The value of a node reflects the degree to which the concept is active in the system at a particular time. Once constructed, an FCM of a domain allows you to perform a qualitative simulation of the system and experiment with the model. The value of a node is a function of the sum of all incoming edges multiplied by the value of the originating concept at the immediately preceding state. In this respect, FCMs function like associative neural networks. The threshold function applied to the weighted sums can be fuzzy in nature. Moreover, concept values are expressed on a normalized range denoting a degree of activation rather than an exact quantitative value. These facts of FCMs are taken from the fundamentals of fuzzy logic. An excellent source for FCMs is Bart Kosko's Fuzzy Engineering (Prentice-Hall, 1997)
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Oddens' bookmarks
The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping with over 17.000 Cartographic Links
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valcasey.com . Visual Design
Val Casey¥s notes on visual and interaction design - very closed to some of Nathan Shedroff¥s thoughst or taxonomies. It ends up in experience design merging all our design disciplines. But Val put together lots of helpful examples and explanations.
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Thursday, May 2

Boxes and Arrows: The age of findability
Peter Morville writes about "The age of findability" as the most important aspect of usability. Is it a new paradigm or just another label? Morville is bothered about being labelled as doing "content IA", so he extracts IA eg to orientation in airports.

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