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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

A metaphor for organizational change

I was talking to my boss today about how I felt there were lots of little glimmers of hope that things were changing within our organization, but that they never were sustained, and thus extinguished. During this conversation I came up with a way to describe why lots of small ...

How UX Plays (and Works) Together:

In NYC @ the Parsons School of Design in the Parsons Design Lab, we had a wonderful panel discussion. The Panel was key-noted and then moderated by Louis Rosenfeld and the panelists included: Conor Brady Creative Director, Razorfish Marilyn Tremaine James Spahr Mark Hurst Josh Seiden Whitney Quesenbery

IA Summit Presentation

Here lies the presentation I gave on March 6, 2005 a the IA Summit in Montreal. The original proceedings did not have all the slides as presented. A conversation with someone afterwards got me to think that I need to make a disclaimer. Theh primary audience for this presentation is the internal ...

Widgetology

I'm adding this concept of a widgetologist to my vocabulary. If Christina can create widgetopia, then i can be a widgetologist. I'll let people know how the term is received at my presentation later today.

Ok, maybe it isn’t the end of HTML afterall …

Jesse James Garrett, put together a great piece on HTML-based rich GUIs. he even gave it a name--Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML). go to read the article on the Adaptive Path site.

IA Summit: the Future of the summit

The summit is a great success. As someone on the planning committee I feel partially responsible, but I also feel that so much of the success is because if the planning committee lead, Stacy Surla (yeah!!!! Stacy!). Many things went exceedingly well for this conference because of her great ideas. ...

IA Summit – I’ll be there — and Lots of IxDers

The Information Architecture Summit will be in Montreal this year from March 3rd to the 7th at the Queen E (Fairmont) Hotel. I will be making a version of the presentation I gave in NYC in October. I'm helping to organize a social event on Sunday night of the Summit for ...

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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