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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

My Reading List as of Dec 2005

My fave blogs (no aggregators) Ok-Cancel - a comic strip, great articles, and a rabid commenting community make this blog one of my favorites. Functioning Form - One of the most intelligent bloggers on design of digital systems I have met and read. Covering these topics: visual design's importance to UX, social-technologies, ...

BarCamp in NYC

BarCamp an "unconference" as the organizers of the orginal in Palo Alto called it has been organized in NYC in January. Check out the details here. I particularly like the organizing a conference on a wiki.

Gmail’s new Web Clips feature

Recently, Gmail came out with a new interesting and for me unexpected feature. They call it Web Clips. It's a fairly basic piece of functionality whereby a user sets up a bunch of RSS feeds (subscriptions). Then whenever you view a list like your Inbox, or a conversation (a message) ...

Looking at Office 12 – context, posture, change

Recently Jensen Harris, Lead Program Manager of the Microsoft Office User Experience Team, gave a very excellent presentation to BayCHI (get it here). I have also been following closely Jensen's Office UI Blog with great interest. At this point though I have a few questions on a theoretcial level:

RIAs: The Technology Is Exciting, but They Really Do Help Users :: UXmatters

A few months ago I submitted an article to UXMatters.com. Today that article about RIAs is finally published. Take a look!

A “white space” for Interaction Design (IxD)

A while back I posited a question "What is white-space in Interaction Design (IxD)?" I had no answer then, but a discussion on the IxDA discussion list about non-US examples of design brought up an example out of Sweden's Interaction Institute known as Brain Ball. Brain Ball is a game ...

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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