UT Libraries Technology Pros

Interesting article that highlights how it takes the whole organization's commitment in order to go from good usability to good user experience.

Good article. I also like the diagram.

Just thought I'd share. I think the site speaks enough for itself.

A few links about innovative new ways to do librarianship along with challenge to build a Pinterest collection that describes envisions what future libraries will be.

A good article on using the proper language and injecting some intelligent humanity into the text used on website content, forms and pop-up windows.

Some nice takes on maps.

Some neato ones, some not-so-neato ones.

Interesting example of resizing layout based on browser width.

QR Code usage stats (last half of 2010)

Interesting article about issues re: multitasking

Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We're not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.

Wow - kinda cool and just a little bit creepy. not being transmitted to Apple, but ... what's it for?

This is from a while ago, but I heard this mentioned the other day. Interesting, brief list of some of the issues we have with dealing with names.

They'll face some of the same challenges we will with building LALSDL as well as some even bigger ones

"Tablet computers do not yet pose a threat to displace laptops as the prevailing device among college students."

Tutorial on creating infographics in Illustrator

Takes the floorplan and provides more detail/context (custom code)

In this blog post by a Microsoft developer, there are examples of scrolling on a single webpage by moving left to right (vs. scrolling up and down). Also, some main navigational buttons and menus are now on the RIGHT side of the layout instead of the long-used left side of the layout location for these elements. I believe this is an example of the influence of touch screens on tablets, phones, and computers affecting the long held paradigm of left side menu navigation. The gesture navigation of touch screens is making another mark on design and layouts.

New in CS5, Adobe Kuler is present in Photoshop and Illustrator. It's a live palette item that features color palettes created by various designers from around the web (professional and non-professional). You can save favorite palettes, browse the live palette library and submit your own palettes for consideration. It's a great resource.

Interesting open source project for managing a local display screen network

Information on CAPTCHA's basic philosophy and logic. There are some examples of non-standard CAPTCHA examples.

Great post. It perfectly summarizes all my problems with captcha and the fact that there's not yet a good solution. I think that using computing power to recognize spammy submissions and weed them out (based on time it takes to complete the form or the language used in the post or the attached link) would work well for our purposes but ultimately we have to reduce/eliminate the benefit of spamming in order to stem the tide at the source.