Gessica Lee's Page

Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience http://bitURL.net/bbdj

 

Great article about creating a mental model and introducing and engaging at the right time.

I thought this was a given by now, but good validation on use of colors/colours. Love the reply from getclicky...wrong!
http://spyrestudios.com/the-user-experience-and-psychology-of-colour/

 

Awesome article, just in case you needed validation on what you already thought.

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Wow we even have our own day of recognition!



Tell me, what will you do to contribute to WUD? Educate your co-workers, family members, create a better interface, improve an old interface, or simply think about our IA/UI ancestors?



For example my favorite IA from the 1700's Carl Linneaus the name giver:



"Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus was an early information architect. He believed that every kind of plant and animal on Earth should be named and classified."… Continue

Having lived in the Netherlands for some time and visiting often, on my last trip I realized something about the dutch as I sat at a cafe in Leidseplein and watched men using urinals in the middle of the square...yes, you read correctly, urinals out in the open, men all around, and thousands of people as their spectators.

This pic was actually taken on Queens Day, however the urinals are still being used.



The dutch have this… Continue