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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.” - Steve Jobs

Coordination vs. Collaboration

Recently I've been made aware of different ways of thinking about "collaboration". It kinda took me for surprise be specially given the geo-social contexts, but there is no ignoring it. What I learned as two completely different activities some use the same word for or more correctly use the term ...

Featured on the Home Page of Slideshare.net

My presentation, "Make Your Users Boogie" is featured on the SlideShare.net home page under the UxLX 2012 event spotlight sidebar.

Is “the server” beyond the app?

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. ...

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Social Media: Don’t drive/type angry — Apology

I did it. I've been trying to be good online, but I did it. I hit send while angry. It's like driving while drunk. Heck, its like driving while angry. I didn't pause and consider the effect of my actions, or more correctly, I just didn't care. All I knew ...

Mickey’s 10 Commandments for Imagineering

... Is to apply the arts--both aesthetics and creative process--to contexts of utility while maintaining balance between the market, construction, and the human situation (not Hannah Arendt's version) and facilitate those who are more expert at those same three areas of concern.

Mickey’s 10 Commandments for Imagineering

SCAD-Savannah brought 2 Imagineers to give a great presentation on how Disney Imagineering makes (and maintains) the magic. Here are their 10 design principles. I think they are amazing! Mickey's 10 commandments 1. Know your audience 2. Walk in your guests shows 3. Peabody the flow of people & spaces 4. Create a visual magnet ("Weenie") 5. ...

Emotion, devotion, elation, … etc. etc.

Today there was a rare piece in Techcrunch about user experience. The person keyed in on making a user experience memorable. And ya can't argue w/ that. What it reminded me of was the one-off presentation I gave June 2009 at the From Business to Buttons conference in Malmo, Sweden. So ...

What is in a sound? Behavior, motivation & dissecting a brand

So I've had a lot of offline discussions about my little call for designs of a Harley Davidson car. One major recurring theme is the importance of the sound of the vehicle. That low slow baritone sound coming out of the exhaust that you can hear a mile away defines ...

OFF TOPIC: Brackets (with predictions) for World Cup

Well, for my own tracking purposes I had to create my own brackets (taken from this generic one from @nytimes). I filled in the teams for the round of 16 as instructed in the original and then picked my winners in each of the subsequent rounds all the way to ...

Links to UXLX overview on JohnnyHolland.org

Yesterday I published a blog post inspired by Jared Spool's (@jmspool) talk at the User Experience Lisbon (@uxlx) conference. I didn't know when it was coming out, but here are my notes as published on JohnnyHolland.org (@johnnyholland). Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Enjoy!

Will design for food (summer job)

I am looking for opportunities to work this summer. I have 16 weeks off where I'm available almost full time for adventures in design, mentoring, and teaching. As a designer & mentor I'm most experienced doing work in the enterprise space within the areas of web as service, desktop applications, and ...

Education & early Career Development on JohnnyHolland.org

I've been resistant to publish stuff here that says, look over here for something I've said. But this piece in particular is something I put a lot of attention on and struggled about whether or not it should be published elsewhere or on my blog. As I've been teaching this past ...

Why is the IxDA student competition for individuals only?

For those that may have missed it, I'm the chair person for the first IxDA Global Student Competition in Interaction Design. Since launching the competition there have been a slew of people asking if their team of 2-a billion could enter the competition. I have even been told that for ...

A vision for a student competition for IxDA

I've been asked to write up something about the Student Competition for IxDA that I'm the chair person for. Well, I think I did just that when I wrote up the vision of the competition we posted on the student competition web site. So instead of rewriting it, I'll just quote ...

The power of teaching

In February at Interaction 09 | Vancouver, Kim Goodwin's closing keynote entitled "Each One, Teach One" (video) urged us all to take on the role of teaching as part of our practice. I'd like to agree in triplicate. My first experience as a teacher began when I was in college. The summer ...

The evolution of interaction design

we started out caring about the behavior of the things we create. we moved towards caring about fitting the behavior of the people we create things for. now ... We need to design the behavior of things, so they fit the behavior of people, in order to change their behavior.

Get ready to get your geek on! Nov 6-8 in Savannah!

So the speaker list has finally been announced for Geekend 2009 in Savannah, GA at the Hyatt Regency, November 6-8. This is a great event meant to bring together folks from tech, biz and design of software, games and web. I'm doing a custom rapid fire version of my Sketching workshop with ...

Can we have a real discussion about IxD EDU?

I first saw that there was a new issue of interactions (the magazine of ACM/SIGCHI) when @jkolko announced it. Right away I clicked on over to the site enticed by the mention of a piece about Education in NYC. Ya see I know big things are happening in NYC with ...

Why It’s Not Damning to Define the Thing

This was originally published by ACM Interactions magazine in their May-June, 2013 Edition as part of their Confessions column. I re-print it here with their permission as columns like these are not made available to the public as a whole. Thank you ACM for allowing me to do this. Why It's ...

Coordination vs. Collaboration

Recently I've been made aware of different ways of thinking about "collaboration". It kinda took me for surprise be specially given the geo-social contexts, but there is no ignoring it. What I learned as two completely different activities some use the same word for or more correctly use the term ...

Report from Up to All Of Us

I'm currently on a plane heading back home after a short weekend with a group of mostly instructional designers who are at a new type of unconference (something I've never experienced before). It felt more like a retreat than a conference due to the setting and the style of interaction ...
December 12th 2012
Tags: education, general thoughts One Comment

As Corona says, “Change your Latitude [Longitude]” – Travel is awesome.

Today I sparked a bit of a conversation after I tweeted: Everyone who is creative should move every 5-10 years; to minimally find a way to live somewhere else for a yr (sabbatical). http://twitter.com/daveixd/status/278919010391826432 Why do I put such importance on travel? What value does it give a creative person? And to the ...

Today Johnny Holland says Goodbye and I am sad & grateful

Today Johnny Holland, the amazing Interaction Design online magazine says goodbye. This news makes me feel both sad and grateful. Johnny Holland (JH) has been a rare place that allowed me to include my voice where other magazines rejected the types of topics I was interested in discussing: esoteric, foundational, semantic, ...

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