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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

Does “on-demand” mean less quality?

The alternative title for this piece could be, "The Dangers of On-Demand Software Services." The premise for this article is that due to the properties of the technology and business models of On-Demand Software Services (ODSS), there is a great risk that ODSS corporations sacrifice quality. More below, but first some background On-Demand ...

Aesthetics and Interaction Design: Preliminary Thoughts

The included PDF documented is a scan of the article that I published in "", a journal published by ACM's SIGCHI. Enjoy! Aesthetics and Interaction Design

History of IxD

This is is a part of a presentation that Robert Reimann (Bose Corporation) and myself gave at the IDSA 2005 National Conference on Aug 27, 2005. A History of Interaction Design (IxD).

Working With the Disconnected

Ever feel like you live in an alternate universe? Everything you read on and offline tells you, we are living in a beautiful age of technological innovation and true belief in design Then you walk into your offices conference room, and its like walking into the Matrix. So like Neo, ...

Web 2.0 ????

As usual my buddy Luke does all the hard work, so I can use his stuff for further commentary. Thanx! This time he both did prep work before the Web 2.0 panel by BayCHI and then did a great summation report. There are some themes that help peple to define Web 2.0 ...

I’ve been Podcasted

Chris Gee, has a blog that he also uses to podcast called The Prepared Mind. His third episode was a podcast interview of me. Also, of interest in the blog, is an interview-podcast of GK VanPatter, who co-leads the NextD organization.

AJAX, the Revolution or the Tea Party

Today, Wired.com published an article entitled, You Say You Want a Web Revolution. The article makes what I would call a brash statement touting the revolutionary properties of AJAX. AJAX--the term coined by Jesse James Garrett in his February essay-- is a technique for creating richer (read more dynamic) browser-native ...

I’ll be speaking at the IDSA 2005 National Conference

I will be presenting with Robert Reimann (more about Robert below) the Interaction Design Track seminar at the IDSA 2005 National Conference: reAction.

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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