Information map of preferred Social Networking sites from Le Monde. LE MONDE, Journal Le Monde, quotidien d'information francophone / Le Monde, the french quality newspaper of record

Quoted: People from different dicsiplines and also cultures should have a different method of approach to the interface design. Due to the incompatible meaning of good and evil per person, the characteristics for the quality of interface design cannot be determined.

Quoted: The characteristics of interface design cannot be objectified, so as the results of the rating methods for the interface design could be different. This study, researches the relation between users characteristics and users' interface preferences.

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Quoted: Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts bar graphs are being used every day, in project on possible occasion.

Quoted: CATALOGTREE / implicit none, logical DONE. Unjustified hypertext by Dutch graphic design studio based in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

Quoted: The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities.

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussions. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love -- and it all ends up here.

Quoted: The Hype Machine is a MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!

It's all about meaning...

Quoted:“Engagement is turning on a prospect to a brand idea enhanced by the surrounding context.”

Quoted:What does that mean, exactly? In her article “Cracking the Engagement Code,” Mollie Spillman interprets it as an “indicator of the propensity of a brand message to resonate and connect with a prospect and ultimately drive some kind of meaningful action.” [1] The focus is less on how many people experience the message and more on what the message means to people—especially considering whether the appreciation of meaning leads to an action such as a purchase or a click. In the interactive world, a simple example of designing for engagement is placing an ad in a context where it is likely to have meaning. For instance, a BP ad about the company’s environmental efforts appears on CNN.com beside an article about the environment, shown in Figure 1. Because this BP ad relates to the article’s topic, I was interested in getting more information and clicked the ad to expand it.