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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

Making UX Play and Work Together (3/15 @ 7p in NYC)

A UXnet Panel Discussion: How UX Plays (and Works) Together What I do that you don't - and vice versa - and how we can work together better Keynoted and Moderated by Louis Rosenfeld* Panelists*: Mark Hurst, Whitney Quesenbery, Josh Seiden, James Spahr, and Conor Brady Where: Tuesday, March 15; 7-9p Where: Parsons Design Lab @ 55 ...

EPIC 2014

EPIC 2014 Will Google and Amazon merge? Will the New York Times close its online doors? What happens when you combine user filtering + intellignece algorithms to not just selection of product, but also of selection of news and entertainment. Is there any need for corporate media once its all on the ...

mSpace: exploring the New Web

using UI Designer Blog aggregator I came across this site, mSpace. The tool is an early semantic web browser demonstration. It claims to combine the great navigation capabilities of tools like iTunes with the search engine capabilities of Google (link is to Google's "suggest" functionality). I like the idea a ...

Foundations to IxD – Let’s start breaking the whole thing down

As many people who read this space know, I have recently taken a few courses in Industrial Design and was seriously considering going to graduate shcool in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute. During my research of Pratt my professor recommended my reading a book about one of the primary ...

What are the properties of a UX design cirriculum, Pt. 1

I was inspired by the Boxes and Arrows article by Jason Withow, which is a cases study of the creation of a cirriculum for User Experience Design. While Jason made his cirriculum for a specitic environment, my response to it was one of an ideal. What struck me in reading his ...

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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