[IxDA Discuss] results: harnessing technology's potential without being harnessed to technology

[Miguel Gonzalez]

Thanks for the collection.

It's nice from you to pass this list of resources.

Miguel Gonzalez.


--- "Costa, Maren" <maren at amazon.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> A week ago I asked the question, "How do we best stay abreast of rapidly changing technologies
> and their implications/potential for interaction design without getting bogged down code?" I
> received excellent responses from all: suggestions ranging from newsletters, sites-to-watch, and
> script libraries, to conferences, blogs, and discussion groups; as well as some excellent sound
> bites along the lines of this one: "What is possible and what is desirable--our job is to find
> the intersection of these two spaces. If you only ever look within that which is possible, you
> never create the opportunity to do better. Often times, when you define what is desirable, you
> suddenly find that new things are possible."* The upshot being: there's no single,
> one-stop-shopping source**, but there's a lot of great info out there in various places, forms,
> and forums if you're willing to spend some time digging a bit and briefing yourself, while still
> keeping your brain free to
> dream :]. Following, for your reference, are the compiled resources. Thanks to everyone who
> responded!
> 
> *Well put by Joshua Seiden
> 
> **That said, this excellent guide by Luke Wroblewski and Frank Ramirez comes closest:
> http://www.lukew.com/resources/WebApplicationSolutions.pdf
> 
> 
> NEWSLETTERS
> 
> Slant
> http://slant.avenuea-razorfish.com/1104_slant/subscribe.asp
> 
> Adobe Edge
> www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/subscribe/
> 
> 
> REFERENCE SITES
> 
> A List Apart
> www.alistapart.com
> 
> Ars Technica
> http://arstechnica.com/
> 
> Boxes & Arrows
> www.boxesandarrows.com
> 
> HTML Dog
> http://www.htmldog.com/
> 
> InfoDesign
> www.informationdesign.org/
> 
> The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break
> www.guuui.com
> 
> Particletree
> http://particletree.com/
> http://particletree.com/features/javascript-basics-for-prototyping/
> http://particletree.com/features/ajax-wireframing-approaches/
> http://particletree.com/features/javascript-basics-for-prototyping/
> 
> Vitamin
> www.thinkvitamin.com/
> 
> 
> GOOD READS
> 
> eWeek
> http://www.eweek.com/
> 
> NY Times Tech section
> http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
> 
> 
> WEB-TECH IN ACTION (sites-to-watch)
> 
> www.etsy.com
> www.flickr.com
> Google's Docs & Spreadsheets, Picasa, Gmail, etc.
> 
> 
> CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
> 
> IDEA (www.ideaconference.org/)
> Information Architecture Summit (www.iasummit.org/2007/)
> Adaptive Path (http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/workshops/)
> 
> 
> BLOGS
> 
> Yahoo's pattern guru Bill Scott: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> "LIBRARY" SITES
> 
> Prototype (http://prototype.conio.net)
> 
> Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us)
> 
> Yahoo's User Interface pattern library: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php (good
> best practices for a lot of ajax-based interactions. 
> 
> Check out some of the archived lecture videos at the YUI Theater which includes several about
> designing for web 2.0: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ 
> 
> (And if you're interested in code, try out Yahoo's phenomenal YUI toolkit:
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/)
> 
> 
> Maren Costa
> Lead Senior UI Designer . Amazon.com
> maren at amazon.com
> ________________________________________________________________
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
> To post to this list ....... discuss at ixda.org
> List Guidelines ............ http://listguide.ixda.org/
> List Help .................. http://listhelp.ixda.org/
> (Un)Subscription Options ... http://subscription-options.ixda.org/
> Announcements List ......... http://subscribe-announce.ixda.org/
> Questions .................. lists at ixda.org
> Home ....................... http://ixda.org/
> Resource Library ........... http://resources.ixda.org
>