Dating Example for Information Architects.   Technology to make you go "wow" is a prelude to Don Norman's new book, "Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things." The gist is that people naturally gravitate toward better looking objects, and perceive them to be more usable...or at least more fun to use. Maybe eyecandy is its own reward?   Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design.   Surfing through some old Jakob Nielsen stuff, I ran across the How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation paper that I read a while back. Re-reading it was good. As was the Ten Usability Heuristics.   Sprint PCS unveils wireless MP3 ambitions - Soon, ringers will be the actual song!   The Next Big Thing...The Cell Phone covers what looks like is going to be the "it" industry of the next few years: cell phones. Content, applications, networks, devices. Everything. As a user-experience person, I can tell you it looks very exciting from where I'm at.   The challenge of viewing ever denser amounts of information on smaller and smaller screens is something I've been wrestling with for a while. One path I have been running down is the idea of some way to magnify relevant sections. It looks like someone has already run farther down that road: Idelix Software has developed what it calls Pliable Display Technology that essentially allows the user to magnify context sensitive information. If you can translate most of your data graphically and then use a tool such as PDT, those 240x268 usable pixels on a PPC may actually become more usable!   Pocket PC Flash has inspired me create a ppc version of this site. There are some interesting nuggets here.

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