Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz recommends solution to economic crisis

Joe is one of my big heros and I just thought I would mention him again since CNN published one of his common sense articles today suggesting solutions for the US bank bailout:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/26/stiglitz.finance.crisis/index.html

When studying one of our Masters of Information classes I looked into the financial side of information management and discovered Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2001, for his work on the economics of information. Joe is a professor at Columbia University.

Dr. Stiglitz wrote "Making Globalization Work" which I very much admire.

Here's a search response on his books:
http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Joseph+E+Stiglitz&source=an&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational

Here is a link to some of his writings about the current economic situation.
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/Crisis.cfm

His autobiography:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/stiglitz-autobio.html

Here are links to two of the articles I wrote based on my reading research:

"In order to be considered a great global leader China should maintain peace and respect for corporate property rights. They need to immediately focus on their serious environmental pollution problems to survive. Politically China needs to resolve the long-standing repression of the Tibetan people; it is too expensive in terms of public relations."
http://wonderlane.blogspot.com/2008/03/report-china-is-likely-winner-of.html

and a "How I researched and wrote the article" document -
http://wonderlane.blogspot.com/2008/03/china-is-likely-winner-of-information.html

Will Evans and Dave Malouf's recommended reading library for IA / UI / UX Professionals

Will Evans writes "Here is the one I put together with dave malouf:

IxDA Booklist: Design, IxD, IA, UX and everything in between
compiled by will evans and david malouf

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1. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right
Design (Paperback) by Bill Buxton (Author)
2. Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever
Devices (VOICES) (Paperback)by Dan Saffer (Author)
3. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us
Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Paperback) by Alan Cooper (Author)
4. About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback) by Alan
Cooper (Author), Robert Reimann (Author), David Cronin (Author)
5. Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and
Planning (Paperback) by Dan Brown (Author)
6. Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental
Knowing (Paperback) by Malcolm McCullough (Author)
7. The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Education in the Computer
Era (Hardcover) by Malcolm McCullough (Editor), William J. Mitchell
(Editor), Patrick Purcell (Editor)
8. Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback)
by Jared Spool (Author), Tara Scanlon (Author), Carolyn Snyder (Author),
Terri DeAngelo (Author)
9. User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction
Approach (Paperback) by Daniel D. McCracken (Author), Rosalee J. Wolfe
(Author), Jared M. Spool (Author)
10. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
(Paperback) by Jenifer Tidwell (Author) *
11. Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Hardcover - Oct 1, 2003)
by Brenda Laurel (Author) and Peter Lunenfeld (Preface) *
12. Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for
User-Centered Design (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Karen
Holtzblatt (Author), Jessamyn Burns Wendell (Author), Shelley Wood (Author)
*
13. Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs
(Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Hugh Beyer (Author), Karen
Holtzblatt (Author) *
14. The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using
Personas for the Web (VOICES) (Paperback) by Steve Mulder (Author), Ziv Yaar
(Author)
15. Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (Paperback - Jun 28,
2002) by Luke Wroblewski (Author) *
16. Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things (Paperback)
by Donald A. Norman (Author)
17. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
(Hardcover) by Edward R. Tufte (Author)
18. Beautiful Evidence (Hardcover) by Edward R. Tufte (Author)
19. Envisioning Information (Hardcover) by Edward R. Tufte (Author)
20. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
(Hardcover) by Edward R. Tufte (Author)
21. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
(Paperback) by Jesse James Garrett (Author) *
22. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing
Large-Scale Web Sites [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Louis Rosenfeld (Author),
Peter Morville (Author) *
23. Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)
by Peter Morville (Author)
24. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application
Design (Paperback) by Robert Hoekman Jr. (Author) *
25. Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help,
forms, and other crisis points (VOICES) (Paperback) by 37signals (Author),
Matthew Linderman (Author), Jason Fried (Author) *
26. Thoughts on Interaction Design (Perfect Paperback) by Jon Kolko
(Author) *
27. Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information
Technology (Paperback) by Jonas L?wgren (Author), Erik Stolterman (Author) *
28. Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web (Paperback) by
Christina Wodtke (Author) *
29. Designing Interactions (Hardcover) by Bill Moggridge (Author) *
30. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive
Systems (ACM Press) (Paperback) by Jef Raskin (Author) *
31. The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback) by Donald A. Norman
(Author) *
32. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things (Paperback)
by Donald A. Norman (Author) *
33. The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal
Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution
(Paperback) by Donald A. Norman (Author)*
34. Design Culture Now: The National Design Triennial (Paperback) by
Donald Albrecht (Author), Ellen Lupton (Author), Steven Holt Skov (Author)
35. Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability,
Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and
Teach Through Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
(Hardcover - Oct 1, 2003)
36. Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of
Graphic Design (Paperback) by Steven Heller (Editor), Marie Finamore
(Editor)
37. Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (Paperback) by Kelly Goto
(Author), Emily Cotler (Author)
38. User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Debbie
Stone (Author), Caroline Jarrett (Author), Mark Woodroffe (Author), Shailey
Minocha (Author)
39. User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies (Morgan
Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Carol Righi
(Author), Janice James (Author)
40. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer
Interaction (4th Edition) (Hardcover) by Ben Shneiderman (Author), Catherine
Plaisant (Author)
41. Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human Computer
Interaction (Interactive Technologies) (Hardcover) by Mary Beth Rosson
(Author), John M. Carroll (Author)
42. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User
Research (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive
Technologies) (Paperback)
43. User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (Hardcover) by JoAnn T.,
PhD Hackos (Author), Janice C. Redish (Author)
44. Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive
Technologies) (Paperback) by Tom Brinck (Author), Darren Gergle (Author),
Scott D. Wood
45. The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product
Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive
Technologies) (Paperback) by John Pruitt (Author), Tamara Adlin (Author)
46. Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User
Interfaces (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Carolyn Snyder
47. Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability,
Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and
Teach Through Design (Hardcover) by William Lidwell (Author), Kritina Holden
(Author), Jill Butler (Author)
48. Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES) (Paperback) by Jakob Nielsen
(Author), Hoa Loranger (Author)
49. Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity (Paperback) by
Jakob Nielsen (Author)
50. Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
(Paperback) by Ben Shneiderman
51. User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (Hardcover) by JoAnn T.,
PhD Hackos (Author), Janice C. Redish
52. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Paperback) by Joseph S. Dumas
(Author), Janice C. Redish (Author)
53. Designing the User Interface (Hardcover) by Ben Shneiderman (Author)
54. User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by Debbie
Stone (Author), Caroline Jarrett
55. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback) by
Helen Sharp (Author), Yvonne Rogers (Author), Jenny Preece (Author)
56. The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd
Edition) (Paperback) by Douglas K. van Duyne (Author), James A. Landay
(Author), Jason I. Hong (Author)
57. Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of
Data (Paperback) by Stephen Few (Author)
58. Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering
Series) (Paperback) by Dan Cederholm (Author)
59. Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition) (Paperback) by Jeffrey
Zeldman (Author)
60. Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play
(Paperback) by Karim Rashid (Author)
61. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Hardcover) by
Alex Steffen (Author), Al Gore (Foreword), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
62. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
(Interactive Technologies) (Paperback) by B.J. Fogg (Author)
63. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback) by Betty
Edwards (Author)
64. Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition by Josef Albers
and Nicholas Fox Weber (Paperback - May 15, 2006)
65. Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara (Paperback
- April 1, 2007)
66. Massive Change by Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, and Institute Without
Boundaries (Hardcover - Oct 1, 2004)
67. Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (Leonardo
Books) (Hardcover) by Geert Lovink (Author)
68. Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (Paperback) by
Geert Lovink (Author)
69. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (Paperback) by Brenda
Laurel (Author)
70. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback) by
Helen Sharp (Author), Yvonne Rogers (Author), Jenny Preece (Author)
71. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (Apple Technical Library)
(Paperback) by Apple Computer Inc. (Author)
72. Improvisational Design: Continuous, Responsive Digital Communication
(Hardcover) by Suguru Ishizaki (Author)
73. Aesthetic Computing (Leonardo Books) (Hardcover) by Paul A. Fishwick
(Editor)
74. Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
(Paperback) by Caroline A. Jones (Editor)
75. The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Books)
(Paperback) by Peter Lunenfeld (Editor)
76. Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer
Interaction (Hardcover) by Bonnie A. Nardi (Editor)
77. Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Hardcover) by Brenda
Laurel (Editor), Peter Lunenfeld (Preface)
78. Design Management: Using Design to Build Brand Value and Corporate
Innovation (Paperback) by Brigitte Borja de Mozota (Author)
79. Information Design (Paperback) by Robert Jacobson (Editor)
80. Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design
(Paperback)
by Peter Wildbur (Author), Michael Burke (Author)
81. Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design (Paperback) by
Paul Mijksenaar (Author)
82. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method
to Metaphor (Leonardo Books) (Hardcover) by Richard Coyne (Author)
83. Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach
(Paperback) by Kristina H??k (Editor), David Benyon (Editor), Alan J. Munro
(Editor)
84. Human Factors in Information Systems: The Relationship Between User
Interface Design and Human Performance (Human Computer Interaction)
(Hardcover) by Jane M. Carey (Editor)
85. Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach (Paperback) by
Jonathan Lazar
86. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (Paperback) by
Sanjay J. Koyani (Author), Robert W. Bailey (Author), Janice R. Nall
(Author)
87. Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive
Technologies) (Paperback) by Tom Brinck (Author), Darren Gergle (Author),
Scott D. Wood (Author)
88. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct
Effective Tests (Paperback) by Jeffrey Rubin (Author)
89. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Paperback) by Joseph S. Dumas
(Author), Janice C. Redish (Author)
90. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business,
Life) (Hardcover) by John Maeda (Author)
91. Designing the Mobile User Experience (Hardcover) by Barbara Ballard
(Author)
92. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for
Environmental Structure Series) (Hardcover)by Christopher Alexander (Author)

93. The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover) by Christopher Alexander
(Author)
94. Unleashing the Ideavirus (Paperback) by Seth Godin (Author), Malcolm
Gladwell (Author)
95. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's
Leading Design Firm (Hardcover) by Tom Kelley (Author), Jonathan Littman
(Foreword), Tom Peters (Author), Tom Peters (Author)
96. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors,
& Students (Design Briefs) (Paperback) by Ellen Lupton (Author)
97. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving
with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie (Author)

98. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques by
Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano (Paperback - Dec 5, 1994)

99. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving
with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie (Hardcover - April 1, 1998)

100. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to
Stick) by Seth Godin (Hardcover - May 10, 2007)

101. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful
Customer Experiences (VOICES) by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel
Rhea (Hardcover - Dec 21, 2005)

102. Reduce, Ruse, ReDesign: Strategies for Sustainability by Nathan
Shedroff (Paperback - Jan 15, 2008)"

Some User Interface Design Fundamentals

User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky (Paperback - Jun 26, 2001)

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper and Robert M. Reimann (Paperback - Mar 17, 2003)

The Elements of User Interface Design by Theo Mandel (Paperback - Feb 1997)

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville (Paperback - Oct 1, 2005) - Illustrated

User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Mark Woodroffe, and Shailey Minocha (Paperback - Mar 22, 2005)

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (Paperback - Sep 2002)

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin (Paperback - Mar 29, 2000)

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, 2nd Edition
by Wilbert O. Galitz (Paperback - May 2002)
Excerpt - page 34: "... 34 INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN DESIGN FOR THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE recognition.) When you're finished with ..."

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper (Paperback - Aug 11, 1995)
Excerpt - page 1: "... I: The foal Designing for Users Technology is the engine that drives user interface design. ..."

The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide by Microsoft Corporation (Paperback - May 1995)
Excerpt - page 3: "... Design Principles and Methodology A well-designed user interface is built on principles and ..."

Interface Design: Effective Design of Graphical User Interfaces for the Web and Multimedia Pages by Alistair Dabbs (Paperback - Sep 2002)
Excerpt - page 16: "... frequently as elements of everyday interface design; they are more likely to ..."

Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Carolyn Snyder (Paperback - April 2, 2003)
Excerpt - page 3: "... for designing, testing, and refining user interfaces. In the early 1990s it ..."

The User Interface: Concepts And Design by Lon Barfield (Paperback - Mar 31, 2004)
Excerpt - page 1: "... reader in mind, is what user interface design is all ..."

User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to Design by Larry E. Wood (Hardcover - Dec 2, 1997)
Excerpt - page 2: "... USER INTERFACE DESIGN effective design, there is usually ..."

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites; Second Edition by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (Hardcover - April 10, 2002)

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) by Steve Krug (Paperback - Aug 18, 2005)

Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell (Paperback - Nov 21, 2005) - Illustrated

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design by Wilbert O. Galitz (Paperback - Jun 15, 2002)
Excerpt - page 53: "... The User Interface Design Process Part 2 presents an extensive series of guidelines for the interface design process. ..."

User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective by Soren Lauesen (Paperback - Feb 14, 2005)

Sites - Jakob Nielsen's Website
The most widely read and recognized usability expert, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

Future Perfect, Jan Chipchase
Principal Researcher, User Research at NokiaBlog
http://www.janchipchase.com/

Joel on Software, Joel Spolsky
Software developer (formerly with Microsoft), author
Blog
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
On writing content, the book Best Software Writing.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.html

Web Style Guide
http://webstyleguide.com/

Donald Norman’s Site
http://www.jnd.org/
Dr. Norman former VP of research at Apple Computer is credited with creating the field of usability. He recommends the following books

Handbook of human factors and ergonomics Gavriel Salvendy 2005: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Universal Principles of Design. William Lidwell, Kritina Holden & Jill Butler 2003: Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers.

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS (Paperback) by James Elkins "Is there anything worth knowing about art schools in past centuries?..."

http://www.informationdesign.org/archives/2006_06.php

http://www.uxnet.org/

Just Browsing Outside

As a child I wandered into the University of Alaska at Anchorage’s library stacks and just started reading. If books on physics and math just happened to be across the stack from 19th century French poetry so much the better, it was an easier reach. When finished with one selection I chose the next one randomly, sometimes with my eyes closed just for fun.

This method works well when the amount of data is limited and the desire for information is high. Sometimes random information is a highly acceptable result. Soon I had consumed all the art stacks -- I found I was rereading them going back the opposite direction. I wished for a way to mark the books or sections of books I had randomly read. Memorizing thousands of Picasso’s images at the end of the row was the end of my road, and I went ‘Outside’ in search of cross cultural connections.

For Alaskans the term “Outside” generally refers to the United States, or “lower 48 states”. Prior to roads being built travel to Alaska was via boat and commonly originating from Seattle through the 'Inside Passage' in what is now Canada. Therefore the reverse route, through any means, is termed ‘Outside’, as in, “I’m going Outside on vacation.” or "She had her baby Outside so it could be President of the United States when it grows up" (really - this was a tradition such as evidenced by Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett's family, and my own). The term ‘Outside’, like a nickname or a tag, also implies a great deal about the Alaskan mindset, that the U.S. is really not home, and it is very distant. With a small population people were viewed as valuable.

Lots of people don't know where the term comes from, but my family helped populate the state arriving in 1896 a couple of years before the gold rush, so we contributed to popularizing slang terms 'cause we love 'em. On the other hand, my mom, so fond of telling the truth about everything confessed that my grandmother had not planted the large old birch tree at the very corner of Anchorage on 3th and L street, near where the statue to Capt Cook is now, as she had often repeated throughout my childhood and to anyone who would listen.

This leads me to believe there is another tradition, leg pulling. So all the other theories about where that expression "Outside" came from could be just as valid as that tree planting story. So much for the playfulness of Alaskans -- folksy, resistant to authority, maybe not exactly anti-intellectual but something like that.

My mom tells me she is writing a series of short stories titled "I Didn't Die" about all the times she escaped death in rural Alaska just going about her business in planning. She fell off a cliff and was caught by a net placed there for the express purpose of catching people at AlyeskaSki Resort just outside Anchorage, got stuck in a plane without fuel drifting silently past Denali (Mt. McKinley) but landed safely, once having accepted a plane ride with her inexperienced boss acting as a pilot got lost in the far north and navigating with a map and a flashlight from the air found the only airport for hundreds of miles by spotting a tiny distant light, ate hallucinogenic mushrooms by accident, and poisonous shell food and so forth. And you know what, you know the tag line - she didn't die.

I still see myself as just browsing Outside, and still, someday I might go home.