The Onion reports on a forgotten Assyrian god revived to name a sports drink. Go Nisroch!
Perhaps the Nisroch article caught my eye because I work at an organisation whose:
corporate logo features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory (and was created long before the sports-shoe company)
HR/finance enterprise system is called Themis, after the Greek goddess associated [...]
Writing in UX Matters, Paul J Sherman challenges businesses to include usability in their IT selection process:
“Enterprise software products are complex, powerful tools. Their complexity is one of the reasons businesses sometimes fail to fully realize the expected return on investment from these products.
“For enterprise employees, who must use these enterprise applications, this complexity poses [...]
When configuring your web content management system (CMS) it’s important to pay attention to the little details, let you end up with something like this article from the ABC News web site.
The byline says the article was posted 7 minutes ago and updated 8 minutes ago, which is logically absurd.
I saw similar inconsistencies on other [...]
Adaptive Path and Mozilla have released the first in a series of concept videos describing Aurora, a concept for new ways to browse and communicate via the web.
For interaction designers and information architects, some of the interest is in the design process itself — see Jesse James Garrett’s comments on the Aurora web page about [...]
Moving into a new office is a bit like playing house: there’s an irresistible urge to decorate, to make it your own.
Fortunately, I have some good bones to work with:
The new office is in the Baillieu Library, which marks its 50th anniversary next year, so the retro furniture is quite at home here.
I have a [...]