Metaphors Interface Hall of Shame - Metaphors - good examples of bad uses of metaphors, has screen shots and text Beyond the Interface metaphor by Ken Mohnkern Do Metaphors Make Web Browsers Easier to use?" by Elissa D. Smilowitz Telephone as Web Metaphor - by Jakob Nielsen, big name in software design A City Metaphor to Support Navigation in Complex Information Spaces - an abstract of the paper, good to get a sense of the metaphor The Impact of the Internet on Journalism: The Newspaper Metaphor - has a section on the language of metaphor an interesting print article: Golovchinsky, G. and Chignell, M.H., (1997). The Newspaper as an Information Exploration Metaphor. Information Processing & Management, 33(5), pp.663-683. Making Sense of the Web: A Metaphorical Approach - by Lee Ratzan, published in Information Research, Vol. 6 No. 1, October 2000 About Net-Mom: The Birth of a Metaphor - the invention of the surfing metaphor Metaphors for the internet - some starting point for ideas that you could develop further Internet Cliches and other crimes against humanity by the Elusive Reptile The Newspaper as an Information Exploration Metaphor The Anti-Mac Interface - by Dona Gentner and Jakob Nielsen, talks about the Mac design principles in its desktop metaphor and what happens when you violate those principles Lifestreams - an alternative to the desktop metaphor, an article in Wired Inventing the Future from Forbes magazine, has bit on biological metaphor for the internet Inventing the Lisa Interface - Lisa predated the Macintosh in using the GUI interface, this is a good history of the Lisa project, in PDF format Toppling the Desktop - about changes in the Mac OSX interface The Myth of Metaphor by Allan Cooper - says metaphors not the best thing for software interfaces Digital Culture - God, Man, and the Interface - article that discusses the Interface Culture book by Johnson that is required for this class Welcom to Mamas House - Ragu Spaghetti Sauce site - uses the metaphor of visiting your grandma at her house (be sure to wipe your feet) Disney.com site - theme park map metaphor - needs flash - let it all load and watch the monorail