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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

Now, I’ve seen it all … And truly believe that Lotus Notes sucks …

I am here today to give two SCREAMING examples of why Lotus Notes should be banned from the universe, or IBM should just practice what they preach for their own product-line. ... What have these people been smoking??????

The pinnacle of just awful experience

So here is the story ... I have SprintPCS. Before everyone just screams out "Awwwww! Man!! I'm so sorry!" I do have to say in general, I like my service. They usually mess up in ways that are subtle and don't hit me directly. I.e. how can they have phones ...

i know

So I find a "penny" like thing on the floor in Union Square that on one side says, something like "All the Facts" and then on the other side it says www.iknow.tv. I don't want to give anything away ... But you gotta find out, to get in the "know".

Web Application Solutions: A Designer’s Guide

Web Application Solutions: A Designer's Guide is a nice 20 page paper breaking down the different focuses, weaknesses, and strengths of the various richening technologies. I am honored to have been asked to be on their review team and hope my little take on this very important issue made a ...

livlab.com: IA Summit Recordings

Livia Labate graciously posted her recordings from the IA Summit on her site @ http://livlab.com/archives/000018.html Even my presentation is there if you want to listen to it.

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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