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Shifting focus

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ~ 4:54 PM

This is the last new post that I'll be making on this blog. I decided a while back to shift the focus of my web activities, and thought it was time to formally close things off here.

Why stop posting here? Mostly just a feeling that I needed to shake things up a bit, to put some serious effort behind a few other ideas that I've wanted to work on for a while. Making a clean break just felt right.

There may still be some activity on this site as I back-fill some old posts from other blogging platforms. My goal is to eventually have this as a (more or less) complete archive of my personal blogging from early 1998 to this year. That's a background project of mine that I plan on allocating a bit more time to in 2010.

A huge thanks to Karl Dubost for hosting this blog for so long. In addition to providing this infrastructure, Karl has supported and inspired me in more ways then he may realize. That you are reading this today is due in no small part to him, so you can thank (or blame!) him.

UXcamp Europe will be taking place in Berlin on the 29th and 30th May 2010.

Taking the lead from the hugely successful UXcamp Berlin 2009, we have decided to extend our borders and create an international event. The focus of the event will be:

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

Usability Engineering

Visual Design

Prototype Engineering

EyeSteelFilm is a production and distribution company based in Montreal, Canada. We focus on theatrical documentary films and socially conscious new media projects.

Integrated2009 is a biannual international design conference that will take place in deSingel Antwerp on Thursday 22 & Friday 23 October 2009.

Integrated2009 will focus on the crossover between contemporary graphic design, illustration, typo- graphy, new media, technology & art.

YouTube added a feature that generates video captions. "We've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video."

The design of a physical space can and should take advantage of information architecture (IA) deliverables, in particular when designing an integrated model of IA across environments. The user must be able to easily consult technology-dependent environments such as digital media or printed paper catalogs in line with the information flow carried through the website. Conveying the relevance of information to the user/consumer by means of applying IA principles with a view to designing a crisscross-connecting model of human-information interaction is the focus of these studies.

Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web. Nearly every site has a concept of a user account, registration, and identity. Searching for "sign in" on Google yields over 1.8 billion hits. And yet, the browser does nothing to make this experience better save for some basic auto form filling. The browser leaves websites to re-implement identity management, and forces users to learn a new scheme for every site... Your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.

La série des colloques « HyperUrbain » propose des réflexions sur la conception de la ville « sociale » (sociale ici voudra dire une conception centrée sur l'utilisateur de l'espace urbain) où les modalités de communication, de sociabilité, d'apprentissage, de transaction, de travail, etc. passent par des différentes formes d'(auto)régulation, dont un nombre croissant repose sur les Technologies d'Information et de Communication (TIC).