–Engage

“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

Removing the (Heller) …

Just letting people know that now that my commitments to UI11 are over, I'm going full steam ahead with my new name. I'll no longer be incorporating the "(Heller)" in my name official or otherwise. I'm just henceforth to be "David Malouf" ... Ok, you can call me Dave if ...

American Express did something VERY right

Now some in my life may know that AMEX and I have not always been on the best of terms. I took my SkyMiles card and maxed it out only to go bust on them. In return they tortured me for a year of me trying to get ride of ...

Designing a name change — part 4,937 (really, the last part)

Well, now that we did the big 4 it was time to work on the more mundane crud of my financial and personal life. In my first installment I gave a pretty intense and long list of everything that needs to be done in this regard and since there is ...

designing a new name – after the court house

The big 4 Social Security Birth Certificate Drivers License Passport First I want to say, that it is VERY cool that for the most part you don't really need any of these in order to do any thing else below. For almost everything you do, just having your court papers will be enough. The difference with ...

The Design of changing your name

It seems that people have responded to my name change and want some more info about it. I thought I'd discuss service design and my name change. Might even be helpful to folks. As a summary, the following agencies or types of agencies are required for changing your name. Most ...

What is in a name?

Some of you may have been noticing that as of this week as I post to lists, my name on my e-mail and in my signatures has changed. I am no longer "David Heller", but I am now, "David Malouf". I have been keeping (Heller) in parenthesis for a short while, ...

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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