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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

BarCamp NYC (final) – Flickr Photos

People are using the tag, "barcampnyc" to place their photos on Flickr.

BarCampNYC – About, For, With – David Heller

So, I gave my presentation at BarCamp to a small crowd of about 10. You can read the basics of the presentation. Following the presentation, there was discussion how does UCD fit (or can it) with agile programming methods. This was an interesting discussion. I tried to highlight that there is ...

barCampNYC – Internationalizing Software – David Czarneicki

David Czarneicki of blojsom tells attendees about internationalization of software. Admittedly it was either too technically based for me, or too generic. I also had to leave early to give my presentation. The short answer is that you better plan for it from the beginning, otherwise it gets expensive. That to do ...

BarCampNYC – Thumbstack.com

Duncan Werner created an HTML rendered Powerpoint creation, collaboration and presentation tool called Thumbstack.com. It is in very early stages and not connected to any business model. It is very slick on the interface side, but more importantly it offers HTML-based functionality for "follow along" that he calls remote control. ...

BarCampNYC – Social Networks by Jakob Lodwick

Jakob Lodwick Social Networks and ways we can improve them by looking at real life social networks. The cruxt of Jakob's ideas boil down to better representing the ways we think about our relationships. they are all not equal and we systematically (and not so systematically) choose how we related to each ...

BarCamp NYC Reporting … Intro.

This is the introduction for the blogging I'm going to do for BarCamp NYC. I'm going to use this space to introduce people to the BarCamp concept as *I* understand it. To learn about the beginnings of BarCamp and the philosopy about it from those organizing it you can go to ...

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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