After about a 4 year break from blogging about information architecture on iaslash (my last post there was 11/2003) I've decided to return to blogging on a wider range of user experience topics. The new blog is called Konigi. Here's a snapshot of how it looks today:
The word Konigi is a bit of a nonsensical riff on the Esperanto, "koni," which means to know. Before I started on this projectj I wanted to find a way to focus on doing some sort of personal knowledge management related to web design, and somehow I ended up doing this site. I can't tell you how happy I am to have finally found a way to combine my interest in KM, Design and UX, and Blogging into one project.
Herw's what you find on the site for now:
- Interface: A gallery of user interface and interaction examples that are both conventional and accepted solution as well as innovative examples that push the use of medium.
- Design: A gallery of sites that can be described as influential, innovative, and effective at representing their brand and purpose. Visitors may submit designs for inclusion. The submissions that get the most votes will be included among the featured sites.
- Notebook: This is the more traditional blog, pointing to UX resources. For now I'm going to keep the writing lean and succinct. This is also the place where I'll be posting the Collages (Command-Shift-5) I play with occassionally and post to Flickr.
- Function: This is a competitive analysis section that I'm working on and hope to release very soon. Hopefully these pages will start appearing in the Spring.
When I started this project a few months ago, I thought I'd simply be starting a blog or wiki, but somehow it evolved into a more focussed portal of sorts with lots of screenshots. I got my hands on Skitch and started posting screenshots to Flickr. I started a new job last year and found myself taking screenshots a lot more and write a lot less on urlgreyhot. All the little experiments using Skitch on Flickr forced me to organize things and separate these screens from those Ipost to urlgreyhot. This is where Konigi comes in. Hopefully it will keep this stream of screenshots in order so they're findable and reusable by others in the UX community who may be interested in them.
I'd love to hear your feedback.
Comments
01/28/08 @ 13:11
Nice. Great job. More of your "blueprint" work. Some thoughts:
* turn on CSS aggregation
* add OpenID (the module works for D5)
* contact me if you want early access to a beta of a very nice anti-spam without captchas that works nearly 100%
A case study post on d.o. would also not be remiss.
01/28/08 @ 13:49
Thanks, Boris.
I had trouble with turning on CSS aggregation. I use it on urlgreyhot with no problems, but for some reason it breaks the Blueprint layout. Very strange, and haven't been able to figure that one out yet.
Will definitely add the OpenID module this week.
Will email you offline about getting access to the anti-spam module. That is very much needed and would really help make the submission forms more efficient.
A case study is a definite post in the future. I was hoping to use that a start for the DrupalCon Boston presentation, but am thinking of focussing that topic around user experience process. But even if I don't give a talk at DrupalCon, I will be sure to post s case study.
Thanks for the feedback as always.
-m
01/30/08 @ 03:42
Really nice! I'm starting to see this type of grid presentation like this one http://paulgiacherio.tumblr.com/ also, how did you do that with Drupal? Was it a theme?
01/30/08 @ 11:22
I created that theme from scratch, with a little help from Blueprint CSS framework.
02/01/08 @ 08:15
I was able to turn on CSS aggregation if I explicitly included my blueprint stylesheet separately. Not sure why the blueprint css was breaking when compressed.
OpenID is now enabled.
Captchas are history!
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