Desktop Visual Search Engine Extends Researchers' Information View http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/12/17/desktop_visual_search_engine_extends.htm The views from inside Grokker have been breathtaking for me, and the amount of serendipitous discoveries that have emerged from my searches has been both impressive and novel to me.

Example of an online square magnifying glass
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

Some of the worst examples of interface design faithfully follow a user-centric approach. Some of the best examples dont. http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/newmethods/5c.html
From the field of Information Design/Architecture: Information Theory, Cognitive Models, Navigation Design, Clarity , Consistency.
From the field of Interface Design: Metaphors, User Behavior, Usability.
From the field of Interaction Design: Interactivity, Participation, Feedback, Control, Time/Flow, Productivity/Creativity, Communications, Adaptivity.
From other fields: Storytelling/Narrative (Writing/Theater/Film/etc.), Community (Sociology), Identity (Psychology), Improvisation (Theater), Point of View (Writing/Theater/Film/etc.), Programmability (CS), Seduction/Persuasion (Psychology), Emotions (Psychology), Viability/Feasibility (Business), Desirability (Marketing), etc.
Standard Experience Issues in a User-Centric Approach: 2D, Sound, Color, Typography, Layout, Screen flow, Goals (Tasks).
More Experience Issues: Persuasion, Seduction, Identity, Community, Ambience, Immersion, Sustainability, Trust, Environment.
New User Profile Traits: Psychographics, Emotions, Biases, Mindsets, and Skills, Experiences, Approach.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/#Rights

Idea to EmoMap way for people to nominate to Edmonton's Top 100 list. BaseMap of categories and decade dimensions.

"I do not separate my scientific inquiry from my life. For me it is really a quest for life, to understand life and to create what I call living knowledge—knowledge which is valid for the people with whom I work and for myself". Marja-Liisa Swantz
"we seem somewhere in the midst of a shift away from a view of knowledge as disinterested and toward a conceptualization of knowledge as constructed, contested, incessantly perspectival and polyphonic" (Lather, 1991:xx)