• Cultivating a Usable Treemap: Treemap Usability

    Recently we added a treemap control to our Silverlight Data Visualization product. We’ve had treemap controls in our other product offerings for a couple years, but our newest addition to our Silverlight Data Visualization product inspired me to write about some usability tips for this data visualization.
    Treemaps are hierarchically arranged groupings of information that communicate information about data through…
    • Fri, Jul 23 2010
  • Trends in User Experience

    There are so many things that come to mind. Every time I get asked about the trends I see out there in the field of UX, I pretty much forget my list just a couple of days afterwards. Pretty weird, but maybe the reason is that I don’t see super-super-strong trends that are totally new and have emerged out of nowhere, but rather continuations of existing trends. So here’s my list.

      

    • Convergence
      To me, this…
    • Wed, Jul 21 2010
  • Your mind is leaking! And what this means for user-centered design.

    I recently submitted a presentation proposal to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference for the 2011 conference. The conference runs parallel mini-conferences on Interactive, Music, and Film. The submission was only allowed to be 1500 characters, and have an 8 word title. This blog post is a somewhat expanded version of what I submitted. Once the conference opens up voting for the presentations (presentation selection…

    • Fri, Jul 16 2010