Shifting Perspective to
Look At Things Differently
New ways of examining our world can lead to
new methods to improve it. Read more about these
shifting perspectives.
Enabling Better Outcomes
and Experiences
These articles examine the complexities of experience
and designing for the fourth dimension: time.

TRUE TALEs

32 Hold Your Horses
Steve Portigal

FEATURE

34 The Dilemma of the Shared Mobile Phone— Culture Strain and Product Design in Emerging Economies Apala Lahiri Chavan, Douglas Gorney

Ps AND Qs

40 Maps and Moralities,
Blanks and Beasties
Elizabeth Churchill

LIFELONG INTERACTIONs

44 Older Adults, Health
Information, and the Internet
Bo Xie

THE WAY I sEE IT

47 Workarounds and Hacks:
The Leading Edge of Innovation
Donald Norman

TIMELINEs

49 Tag Clouds and the Case for
Vernacular Visualization
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg

FEATURE
54 Designing Worth—Connecting
Preferred Means to Desired Ends
Gilbert Cockton

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

58 Involving Local Undergraduates
in Fieldwork
Matthew Kam

FEATURE

61 The Theory of Conservation
of Complexity
David Bishop
FEATURE
64 Web-Conscious Content
Experiences
Luke Wroblewski
(P)REVIEW
68 Web Form Design: Filling in the
Blanks by Luke Wroblewski
Phillip Haine

OK/CANCEL 70 Top 10

Tom Chi, Kevin Cheng

FEATURE
71 Interaction Design for Software
Engineering: A Boost into the
Programming Future

Claude Knaus

FEATURE

76 Image Search at
the Speed of Thought
Santosh Mathan

July + August 2008

In the May+June issue of interactions, the accompanying photo from Richard Seymour’s cover story, “Optimistic Futurism,” was not properly credited. The photo is courtesy of PearsonLloyd Design, www.pearsonlloyd.co.uk.

INTERACTIONs CAFE

80 On Marketing, Sustainability,
Pessimism…

Jon Kolko, Richard Anderson