March, 2009

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When Life Intervenes

Boxes and Arrows

iTunes Download Del.icio.us IA Summit theme music created and provided by BumperTunesâ„¢ IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions (“see schedule&# :[link]. | Preview | Keynote | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Closing | The Opening Keynote and Closing Plenary will be published this coming week, with the Summit sessions to follow during the next two weeks.

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Getting a Form's Structure Right

Boxes and Arrows

iTunes Download Del.icio.us Pod-safe music generously provided by Sonic Blue. I had the opportunity to speak with Afshan Kirmani on her article, Getting a Form’s Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications Part 1. We talk about the design of an online web based application. Part 1 of the series focuses on the web based form where the user experience is critical before the user enters the application.

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Designing the Democratic

Boxes and Arrows

The role of the information architect (IA), interaction designer, or user experience (UX) designer is to help create architecture and interactions which will impact the user in constructive, meaningful ways. Sometimes the design choices are strategic and affect a broad interaction environment; other times they may be tactical and detailed, affecting few.

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Wanted/Needed: UX Design for Collaboration 2.0

Boxes and Arrows

No current software supports the full process of collaboration. That’s a bold claim, and I hope that someone can prove me wrong. This article is more of a “Working Towards …” position paper than the final word; written in the hope that the ensuing discussion will either bring to light some software of which I’m not aware, or motivate the right people to develop what’s needed.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.