Archive of User Interface Design

Deliver my books bitch.

on February 2nd, 2007 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Interface design, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 13 Comments

I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they arrived. If you are a Cornell student or staff, you can have library books delivered to any library-location…

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It’s hard out here for a digital library interface designer/product manager

on September 19th, 2006 in ALA, Career, Cornell, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 1 Comment

Photo by パックマン 10:40pm and I’m still at work. Science Magazine is publishing a blurb about our library of animal sounds on Thursday. We got an award for second-best “educational interactive”. Yay. Unfortunately, this means that a huge group of people are going to visit our site. And our site…

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Counterweight to snark

on February 8th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 8 Comments

I’m typing with my face today due to a stupidity-induced thumb injury from, I think, painting my basement. Homeowners beware. In the meantime, just to show that I’m not all thorns and lemons, here are some good websites. Good in that attainable way. You will notice that these are mostly…

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More on lousy digital library design

on February 6th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Interface design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 26 Comments

Thanks for all of the kind comments on the previous post. They really helped balance the freaking out I had to do when a kind well-meaning soul posted this link as an example of a REALLY GOOD children’s website. Ok. Let’s go through this again. Slowly. This time I’m going…

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Designing for hyper-attentive cyborg children

on January 25th, 2005 in Avenging, Children's Librarianship, Favorite Posts, Graphic Design, Interface design, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 9 Comments

I got this in my email today: What children can teach us: Lessons learned from the trenches of digital libraries “…developing digital libraries that support young people in querying, browsing, and reading scanned materials.” It all sounds very impressive until you click the link. Look at that thing! It’s like…

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