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Digital and Technical reading Interaction/Interface Design Information Design Usability

ILTweb: Digital Classics: Locke:
Understanding: Introduction

Ebook on Human understanding

The Naked Word
Narration (stories ebooks)

Elements of a Web Page:
The Planning Process in Detail ~
Ginger Bauer Designs

Designing web pages
Ubiquitous Computing

Wired News

Alistapart
Link to various articles. Online magazine for design.

Color Chart for webcolors
Excellent source for deciding colors to be used for web, also gives the hexadecimal and RGB value.

On color
Its use in communication, web articles on use of color, etc.

Ubiquitous computing
papers and other info.

Ubiquitous computing news

Products for children with sp. needs

Children with sp. needs
Articles (excellent sources)

Tangible Bits
Chi conference paper

Self motion sensing toys

Glove based input interface

Products for disabled

RAID
Research of adaptive user interface design

Kids sources
Things to consider when buying (desiging) toys for children (disabled)

Resources for Interaction Design

abilitations
Interactive environments

HCI resources on the net

HCI resources
www related

Information Interaction Design
A unified field theory of design.

Design resources

Vivid studios on design process & methodologies

Information design in action

web experience
Design and devp.

Scenario based design

UMLi
UML for Interactive Applications
Includes a short tutorial on UMLi and ARGOi

Usability Heuristics
Pointers for usability testing by Jakob neilson

Designing Forms
Designing usable forms. Using the three layer model.

Usability
(Neilson, Norman group - forum, seminars and tips)

Aggregating Experience
Problems delivering user centered design

Creating Usable flash sites

Usability vs. Interactivity
for the web.

Web's coolest flashers
Fitting usability in flash

Usability resource
Usability lessons

Human Factors

Universal Usability
Agenda for usability SIG conference.

Web Accessibility Verifier
Insuring that your webpages are accessible to all people.

W3C
World Wide Web Consortium.
Articles on tools, specifications, guidelines for web development and design. An absolute 'must see' for web designers.

W3C
Web content accessibility guidelines to make content accessible to people with disabilities

CIFUR
Common Industry Format for Usability Requirement.

Usability Questionnaire
Screening usability job candidates.

Research based web design & Usability guidelines
Links to design processes and other considerations.

WebCheck
Usability evaluation checklist for websites.
Instruction Design Photography/Films Semiotics Visual images and Illusions
ID2
Instructional Design
mental models,Papers and books

Film & Philosophy
(excellent source on interaction in films, papers on narration, etc)

Film making on the net
resource for the study of film, and teaching film theory on the web.

Jerry Uelseman
(stunning b/w photography darkroom masterpieces)

Semiotics of the Film
Individual essays on aspects of films.

Film literature and subjectivity


Constructivism in cognitive film theory

Semiotics for beginners
ebook on semiotics - daniel chandler

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: Metaphor and Mapping in Graphical Interfaces
on graphics and metaphors

Biosemiotics Information
electronic papers on semiotics

Semiotics Home Page
Cognition and semiotics

Mind Games
mind excersising games

Syntactic Theory of Visual
Communication

relating words with images,there can be no words without mages!-aristotle

Pictures Can't Say Ain't
Interpreting images

Visual Semiotics
IATH seminar, proceedings and papers

From Internet to Gutenberg - 6
Paper by known semiotician Umberto Eco.
The Visual Image
Papers on visual perception, optical illusions, graphics, cartooning, photography and visual communication literacy.(excellent source)

Analysis of visual images - The University of Newcastle, Australia (Ross Woodrow)
Notes on all kinds of visual imagery.

Grand Illusions
Optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic.

The Grey Labyrinth
puzzles for the mind

RUFUS BUTLER SEDER
excellent kinetic cards, visual play with animation

to snarg
visually amazing site. Uses only sound and visuals...minimal or no text.

Stereoscopic Animated Hypercube
3D visual images, animated,

3D PAINTING: PARADIGMS FOR PAINTING IN A NEW DIMENSION
Design process of an innovative digital 3D paint program, good source for industrial designers to paint surface details directly on rough 3D models for the first time

Salvador Dalí´s Home Page
Surrealistic images of SD

The Use of Visual Information in Art
Vision and Art - visual principles

M.C. Escher Gallery
...images of illusions, tesselations..etc.

Visual Illusions Gallery : Index
visual illusions of color perception...etc..

Mind games

     
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Cognitive Psychology Peek at Programming Indian Art, Myth and Iconograpy Theories of Interest

Prof. Simon Gadbois
writes on cognitive psychology - lectures etc.

Human Computer Interaction
search results for HCI - papers, research etc.

Cognitive Science
Links on cognition.

The Psychology of Avatars and
Graphical Space in Multimedia Chat
Communities


Psychology of cyber space
ebook, excellent source.

Understanding memory
topics on human memory

Psychology listings
Topics on various aspects of psychology. Imp. papers at the end of the list in this url.

Research papers

‘Pageless’ browsing could revolutionize Web
Wired reports that academics in the US have developed software that enables a pageless method of browsing websites.

Simple lessons on html, asp, java...other scripts

C
on C programming

webmonkey
Crash courses on authoring, programming, etc.

 

Classical Indian Music
Nice source for intro to Indian classical music.

Introduction to Genre Theory
Typography Universities Papers (Misc.) Books

Emigre Magazine Subscriptions

Communication Arts : Creative
Subscription

Digital Type Foundry
Type store

Web Page Design for Designers
- Tips and Tricks


Web Page Design for Designers
- Typography


Prototype -
experimental foundry

typoGRAPHIC
History and text on typography
Type design, typography &
graphic images

Notes on desiging types

Arts of Asia
Includes topics such as chinese calligraphy, japanese woodblock prints, their methods, history, techniques, etc...

 

The Rhode Island School of Design

MIT


CMU
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

MICA
Maryland Institute College of Art.

Graphic Design Schools on the Web
US schools in graphic design.

The brown university
Cognitive and linguistic science

tmg | PAPERS
Tangible media group, papers from the MIT lab.

People and Research
Things that think.
Research at the MIT Media Laboratory
List of subjects and their papers, research...etc.

Chi short papers
Papers on information visualization, audio interfaces, Agents and anthropomorphism, UI specs and programing, usability, multimodal interfaces...etc
Amazon.com: A Glance: Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

DHTML GUIs: book/bibliography

Ordering Options for Design Issues
Design issues, printed at MIT press

elementK journals

journals on webdesign, programming scripts, graphic design...etc (worth visiting)
     
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Online resources UML Misc. Wireless
Predictions for the Year 2000
FlashZone! - Resources
Articles on web tools and other resources.

Macromania - Flash 3 Resource
on flash

Journals and Abstracts related to "interactive media"
A List Apart
Communication Arts: softpack Photography Online

Tutorials on Fla's

Virtual FX
tutorials on fla's, pdfs, articles, bookstores, sources...etc.

Web references
References for web design. Its a must see for web designers. Articles on just about everything needed for web design and development from design to XML....

Usability Challenge
Can UML and unified process meet it?
pdf, presentation by Larry Constantine, University of Sydney.

Towards unified models...
towards unified models in User Centered and Object-Oriented Design.

Cross training for webteams

Eflash
Site in flash.

comstock
Online image resources.

 

Usable Products
wireless round table

Developers guide to palm programming

Palm User Interface design

Wireless phone usability study

WAP

WAP forum

Blackberry UI

VOICE RECOGNITION UI

Interface Architecture

Speech Interface Design

Interactive TV usability network

Email groups for discussions

Wireless Application Testing

Anywhereyougo.com
topics on wireless

       
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