links for 2007-04-17

• Using YUI in Greasemonkey Scripts (Yahoo! User Interface Blog)
  Title says it all, interesting!
  (tags: api code webdev YUI yahoo javascript greasemonkey)
• “From the Mouth of a Screenreader” (Yahoo! User Interface Blog)
  Another interesting posting at the Yahoo User Interface Blog about the differences between screenreaders. Very interesting stuff with respect to section 508.
  (tags: yui yahoo webdev accessability blind section508)
• Cannibalism Bites: Speaking at the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Symposium in Singapore (Jeff Jonas)
  I’m doing some scenario work, luckily not along the lines of the ‘cannabilism’ scenario in this post. I wouldn’t want to call this scenarios, but forecasts. And we all know forecast is a dark art…
  (tags: scenarios ssoffice future)
• Information Software and the Graphical Interface (Magic Ink)
  The author (Bret Victor) calls it a paper, but it’s book-like. Great article on how to design information software, and how not. Looks better than the ‘free’ book at Etech2007 called Dashboard Design.
  (tags: book interaction design graphics research tips inspiration visualisation)
• Learn Like A Human (IEEE Spectrum)
  Article about Jeff Hawkins’ ideas about software that learns similar to humans. The article covers about the same ground as Jeff Hawkins did at his talk at the Etech2007.
  (tags: etech07 ai brain numenta nupic hawkins programming architecture)