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Today, Core77 published my latest article on the current state of IxD and why it will impact your practice. I would really love people to use it as a point of conversation as I believe this moment of division is a powerful time as we can do so much with these divisions if only we [...]

Recently I had the good fortune to here Jonah Lehrer (@jonahlehrer) give a wonderful keynote talk here at SCAD (@scaddotedu). He talk I can only assume will be part of his upcoming book, Imagine. There were two core subjects of his talk that struck me as valuable descriptors of how design schools (good ones anyway) [...]

One of my new favorite resources on the web is Interaction-Design.org. Their growing Encyclopedia (more compendium) has an entry that plays right in my interests: Emotional Design – or Affective Computing. (post is here) Check out the intro video with the author Professor Kristina Höök.  

It’s not often that your logo will be stacked tightly next to your competitor or rival, but I bet it will happen. In the case of conference sponsorship, it is guaranteed to happen. So something that graphic designers should think more about is the use case that a logo will be placed next to someone [...]

This article by Dag Svanaes of Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Philosophy of Interaction Design is just great DTDT of IxD Porn that I find incredible. What I love even more is Don Norman’s commentary pushing Dag to take his theories and presentation to the next level. This is must read for any aspiring serious [...]

Wow! another amazing chapter has been released about Contextual Design by the authors of the book with the same name. As someone who used this book for 3 years teaching contextual research methods, this chapter is very welcome in that it has updated the core since that release and consolidates it beautifully. Also, be sure [...]

Hiya readers, I’m assuming you all know what a QR code is. If not, go to wikipedia and search it. I have been in a bunch of debates about the value of QRs and whether they are good IxD. I’m not here to do that again. What I am interested in if there are designers [...]

Recently, I was teaching my students about the history and present of interaction design practice. I tend to be a seat of the pants at the whiteboard type of professor. I know the things I tend to want to say, but I let the moment & my students take me a bit off course from [...]

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I’m really excited to be able to get to share a preview of the next great entry into the new format of Interaction-Design.org’s exciting encyclopedia. A sort of disclaimer here is that I have been on  the advisory board of this new venture, which has been a tremendous honor and learning experience for me. The [...]

Today was the first National Emergency Announcement System test. We’re all familiar with the EAS system. It is what tells us about the imminent hurricane or tornado heading our way, or when there is a Northeaster. Today for the first time there was a national test. That means that if there is something that happens [...]

Hi, I recently had a talk rejected from IxDA’s Interaction 12 | Dublin conference. I’m far from bitter about it. (Mainly because I have a longer talk and a workshop accepted.) But I kinda liked the idea, or at least the premise behind it. I even had the chance to explore it a little bit [...]

After teaching almost 3 years now and after conversations with co-teachers I have determined that there are 7 key attributes that make a great IxD student/designer: (aren’t we students forever?) 1. Tinkerer: A passion for making of course, but more importantly a love for fussin’ around to discover new possibilities through the making process. 2. [...]

As you may have read somewhere in relation to my social graph the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) will be holding their 5th annual Interaction conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland on Feb 1-4, 2012. The conference web site is at http://interaction.ixda.org/ . Today the organizing committee, of which I’m a part, reached the major [...]

I would say, today was day of the developer on so many levels for me. The keynote today was all about developers so much so that Fireworks (my favorite design tool for UI Design) got 30seconds of mention because now you can do something neato for jQuery. I did see a nice UX 101 talk [...]

So I’m attending my 1st Adobe MAX conference. (http://max.adobe.com/) I was invited to be on a panel to discuss their new Creative Touch Apps (http://blogs.adobe.com/creativelayer/) which were announced as part of today’s keynote (http://max.adobe.com/online/). Here are some of my thoughts after this one day. The Keynote Opening To kick off the keynote was an incredibly [...]

If you are going to Adobe MAX in Los Angeles in October, I’ll be there. I’ll be in a panel on Tues October 4th at 2:30. Here is all the gory details!   Please ping me on Twitter (@daveixd) if you’d like to meet up while I’m there. I arrive into LA on Saturday and [...]

[In the spirt of Jon Stewarts refrain of the NJ Accented advice counselor that always invites wayward media and political people to camera 3, I offer this ...] Ok, we get it. There is a huge challenge facing the people using social networks like your applications today. Totally get it. 5-1 social networks, inifinite connected [...]

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