–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

Tidal wave should cause pause

I have so much; I waste so much. Instead of being decadent tomorrow night, maybe we should take pause, and put the resources of decadence towards a higher priority this New Year's. http://www.moveon.org/tsunamirelief/ There are many, many, many more places to give to. My suggestion for the night is to tea-total. Have fun ...

garageband advertising – iPod Mini

I was reading Wired.com like I always do and found this article about a home grown, garageband created ad for the iPod mini by George Masters. It is pretty kickass and I wanted to share.

The future of digital product design – Dirk Knemeyer

Dirk Knemeyer of Involution Studios gave an amazing presentation (I wasn't there, but just reading the presentation gave me chills) on the future of Digital Product Design this past week @ Yahoo in Sunnyvale, CA. This is my appreciations and critique of some aspects of that presentation. I believe this ...

Can there be affordance or convention in the 2D world, digital world?

So there are just somethings we know how to do. We know ... well we learned in such a way that we can't even remember that we learned. Walking, talking, knowing that cold is supposed to be on the right, and hot on the left (this might be a USism, ...

Functioning Form – Traffic Engineering is Interface Design

Luke in response to an article in wired, offers his POV that way too often when UI designs fail designers fall onto adding text. Now, I have to say that I agree here mostly. I do think that UI design often fails at the graphic design art of communicating without ...

Isn’t UX just another piece of distracting jargon?

I was wondering if/when I was going to have something new to add to this blog, then inspiration finds its self in a Bar called "Hell" ... It's closing so there is little point in advertising it. Victor Lombardi and I were talking about conferences, UX community, factionalization of UX, ...

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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