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I was reading the great wrap up of the 99% conference by Behance. There is some really great thoughts captured/curated in that piece. It’s like a real Making Ideas TED. Kudos to the organizers and editors. The one thing that jumped out at me was report of Keith Yamashita’s talk: KEITH YAMASHITA /// Chairman, SYPartners [...]

[Today, I read a great piece by Mark Boulton (@markboulton) on his experience past & present with design critiques and how they've sorta been lost in the web design (and by extension I'll add the UX community). I've had this 1-2 written piece on the design studio and Mark's post gave me enough of a [...]

So after a billion twints (twitter hints) and Facebook teases over the last few months, I’m ready to explain what’s been going on and more importantly what will be going on. The biggest piece is that I will no longer be a full time professor at SCAD. I love teaching; I so appreciate my students’ [...]

I’ve heard about Zee Frank (mostly from my close friend @barryjoseph) but I’ve never had any personal encounters with him or what he does, so I’ve alway slet it slide. Yesterday a twitter follower, @mkruzeniski (Michael Kruzeniski), passed to me this great piece to help me get through a creative block. It WORKED! I hope [...]

Michael Beirut in his recent piece about graphic design in the age of social media highlights amazing moments and not so effective. At the end he writes: The graphic designer who has played the most dramatic role in the rise of Occupy Wall Street, isn’t Shepard Fairey or Jake Levitas. On September 24, 2011, a [...]

I’m really excited that the video of my talk on designing gestures with an eye to aesthetics is finally up and about. The complete title is “The Aesthetics of Motion in the Age of Natural User Interfaces” but it’s really about how to think about designing for gestures as the new choreography. Here’s the embed [...]

I want to give a HUGE shout out to the CIID Summer School program that just opened up its application process. Last year I had the honor of being able to do 2 of the 3 wk program. I wanted to do all 3 but they wouldn’t let me. I cam to the program early [...]

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I’ve been teaching design now for a bit over 3 years. By teaching I mean in a higher-ed institution. I’ve been doing design for close to 20 years. I feel it makes me a bit of an expert in the field. But even experts have questions from time to time so here is my question [...]

This will be a short post. … Recently there has been a lot of hoopla about privacy especially around the recent “breech of trust” by one of my favorite apps, Path. I’m one of the people and looking at my Path stream I’m not alone, who seemed to just not care. But my juxtaposition of [...]

I am very interested in learning about opportunities where I can learn, design and teach this coming summer. As a professor, I have 16wks off during the summer. As a professor, I am also severely underpaid and need to find ways to supplement my income. I’ve added to my site a page describing my general [...]

Just so everything is in one place here are the artifacts from my experience and contribution at Interaction12 in Dublin. Fun stuff first Here are the 2 photo albums of my trip before the conference and during the conference. Fun times, indeed! Pictures from my trip to Western Ireland Pictures from the Workshop Day of [...]

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 [...]