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 ...
Today I entered my teaching space for the first time in months. This time I am just teaching for a week. And I'm teaching in a foreign country. This offers a new set of challenges and opportunities.
So far the biggest challenge of being a visiting foreign instructor is about ...
I've been thinking about how to market my consulting practice better (yes, I know it needs it's own voice outside of this space.) I've been trying to describe all weekend to people at RemixSouth what I want to be doing and I think I've been getting better at it. So ...
I had a great time speaking and listening at RemixSouth this past weekend in Atlanta. So great to meet the people of the vibrant SE quadrant of the US who are doing great design and technology.
Here are my slides from my workshop. Feel free to ask me any questions here ...
This is a thought I posted to G+ (I like it for longer thoughts like this) but feel that after 24+ hours that its withstood the initial "did I shoot that off too fast?" feeling. Enjoy!
Ok, design is inherently a deconstructive/reductionist process. That means you have to create more, learn ...
... Or ... Work Hard, Rest, Repeat ... Criticism ... Repeat.
This post was inspired by the recent piece by Scott Berkun, called "How to be creative - the short honest truth". In the post Scott, who has made it his life's work to observe and research how businesses, especially the ...
So late last year I had an epiphany. I'm barely ever watching standard TV anymore. But I live in a place that has a ton (compared to Brooklyn; my previous residence) of EAS announcements come over my TV screen. I'm on the Internet usually: Apple TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc. So ...
[Note: Clicking on the images in this article will bring up the full-sized images that I made available here. No image is larger than 7mb.]
It's rare these days to find your words in ink on paper. I almost never have that opportunity, but I was invited last year to be ...
Modkit is a drag & drop visual programming tool for micro-controllers like Arduino.
They've decided to run it as a Kickstarter and are already above their goal.
This looks just like what I needed. Now I just need a great Arduino project to practice with. I also really appreciate the community and ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...