Ali Robertson

Humans in Design: Humans in the Design of Yellow Lines

Sun, 27 May 2012 03:49:37 +1000

Humans in Design: Humans in the Design of Yellow Lines:

A little while back, I blogged my observations on the effectiveness of a yellow “do not cross” line at Helsinki Airport. The line worked for awhile:

Until it didn’t:

I compared this to previous broken windows studies which we’ve reported - In short, in small social situations a…

DO NOT DISTURB: Tiny Grass Is Dreaming

Sun, 06 May 2012 20:16:19 +1000

DO NOT DISTURB:

Tiny Grass Is Dreaming

My ‘fantasy’ submission for @Designers.MX:...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:44:27 +1000

My ‘fantasy’ submission for @Designers.MX: http://j.mp/FRISSON

All Artistry is Analog.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:40:00 +1000

All Artistry is Analog.

jQuery Drop-down menus for SharePoint 2010 Foundation

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:21:02 +1100

https://gist.github.com/1312059

dvdp: Tom Dale, Ball with Wheel

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:10:05 +1100

dvdp:

Tom Dale, Ball with Wheel

Photo

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:05:05 +1100

"We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us."

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:15:06 +1100

“We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us.”

Video

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:20:06 +1100

"In this age of instant-access-anything, The sad, beautiful fact is that we’re all going to..."

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:12:15 +1100

“In this age of instant-access-anything, The sad, beautiful fact is that we’re all going to miss almost everything. The only options available to us are to cull our knowledge areas, and/or surrender to the knowledge of our own ignorance.”

- This is why you should alwaysreadthemanual.com (or at the very least, this article)

Good UI Begets Great UI

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:10:05 +1100

Good UI Begets Great UI

Technology as a Cultural Practice

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:16:05 +1100

Technology as a Cultural Practice - UX Australia

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Why UX Matters

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:43:00 +1100

Why UX Matters:

Symplicit - Why UX Matters

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"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:33:38 +1100

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

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… “A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”

Victor Hugo

Western Spaghetti by PES (by PESfilm)

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:30:00 +1100

Western Spaghetti by PES (by PESfilm)

SharePoint 2010 full breadcrumbs

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:53:00 +1100

SharePoint 2010 full breadcrumbs:

I’ve figured out how to implement breadcrumbs which look like SharePoint (MOSS/WSS) 2007, while also retaining the new breadcrumb features (e.g. view selector) for SharePoint 2010. The code for putting this in your master-pages is hosted here.

Follow me on GitHub

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:25:36 +1100

Follow me on GitHub

SharePoint vNext (SharePoint 15) might look like in a Metro UI...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:06:00 +1100

SharePoint vNext (SharePoint 15) might look like in a Metro UI or Windows 8 world (full res image | see: SP 14).

So far we haven’t seen much enterprise software design targeted at Metro, so this has been a somewhat enlightening process. I think interactivity is going to be absolutely key in future web design - I found that Photoshop really wasn’t able to capture the interactive aspects of my design process. This is my first attempt at designing something for Metro (A.K.A. Windows 8)

Update: This is an interesting CodePlex project! http://spmasterpage.codeplex.com/releases/view/70522 :)

Finished dumping old posts!

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:56:00 +1100

Alrighty, well that gets the old blogging platform out of the way - it was just too cumbersome for regular use… Glad to be on a platform which will handle the spam for me!

Kindle Essentials

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:55:33 +1100

Bought a Kindle. Got apps for the Kindle. These are the apps I think you need to know about if you have an eReader of any kind (including Kindle, iPad, nook, etc). Everything listed is 100% cross-platform - Win/Lin/Mac

- yourdevice@free.kindle.com - You should set up your Amazon account so that you can email stuff to your Kindle for free. Tip: Add ‘convert’ to the subject line when sending document files to have them converted to Kindle format.

- InstaPaper - InstaPaper Bookmarklet, and InstaPaper Chrome Extension - one-click “send this article to my Kindle”. Compiles the last 20 articles into a table of contents. Relies on @free.kindle.com

- Calibre - It’s an eBook manager, but I just use it to subscribe to RSS feeds from anywhere (including leading news sources) and have them sent to your Kindle. Works on your PC. Relies on @free.kindle.com or plug in you device. Can also convert PDFs/etc to native Kindle format enabling font size changes etc.

- Briss - Crop the edges off PDFs. If you read PDFs directly, one issue is that they usually have unnecessary margins which make the text too small. Briss simply cuts the edges off and resaves the PDF. Requires Java.

- SpokenText.net - similar to InstaPaper, except it sends the article to a text-to-speech interpreter and outputs a personal podcast which you can listen to on your phone. Slightly creepy, but I use it regularly.

- DealExtreme has an excellent PU Leather Kindle Case which you can buy for $9 shipped. Don’t buy the $3 bag, it’s lousy.

Ali Robertson

Humans in Design: Humans in the Design of Yellow Lines

DO NOT DISTURB: Tiny Grass Is Dreaming

My ‘fantasy’ submission for @Designers.MX:...

All Artistry is Analog.

jQuery Drop-down menus for SharePoint 2010 Foundation

dvdp: Tom Dale, Ball with Wheel

Photo

"We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us."

Video

"In this age of instant-access-anything, The sad, beautiful fact is that we’re all going to..."

Good UI Begets Great UI

Technology as a Cultural Practice

Why UX Matters

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

Western Spaghetti by PES (by PESfilm)

SharePoint 2010 full breadcrumbs

Follow me on GitHub

SharePoint vNext (SharePoint 15) might look like in a Metro UI...

Finished dumping old posts!

Kindle Essentials

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