So this past week, I started the process of organizing UXCampNYC. The idea for this event was inspired by my experiences at BarCampNYC a few weeks ago. I LOVED IT!. My only regret is that I couldn't go both days. You can read more about my experiences and inspirational moments. So ...

As you might have discerned from my earlier post on Pixar, I'm a total fan, so going to the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) this past weekend to see their exhibit Pixar: 20 Years of Animation was quite the thrill. What I truly loved about the exhibit was how it really ...

Google's search records have been subpoenaed by the US Justice Department as part of their crack down of pornography. (Pornography causes terrorism! Didn't you hear?) ... Attention is a new market theory that relies on company's abilities to be able to gather data about its users and guarantee that their ...

Reported today, Pixar and Disney are in talks regarding Disney buying Pixar. THIS MUST BE STOPPED. What can be done to stop this? Flood Steve Job's mailbox, create online petitions. We need to stop this. Pixar is one of the last great independent and successful story tellers on the planet. What they ...

I found this in my wonderings today--The Design Encyclopedia. It even has an Interaction Design topic/category. A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design. For the technical among us, it is "based on DocuWiki". I like it because I ...

I hav noticed a trend in virtual interfaces that exploits their ephemeral nature, where a single button is used today where two buttons used to be used in the past. The button label is used to both clear a state of the system and the action the button can do. ...

Someone asked this question on Oyogi (check it out). I wrote an answer for them that was interesting and thought it was appropriate for my blog. The short answer to the short question is definitely. Let's break out the components of Web 2.0 (as best as possible). Web 2.0 is web-based (for the ...

Luke W, writes about bringing desktop interactions to the online platform. I don't want to completely re-iterate the article. The juxt of what I got from it is that there are patterns of interaction that do not translate directly into the web space, but the goals of these interactions ...

People are using the tag, "barcampnyc" to place their photos on Flickr.

So, I gave my presentation at BarCamp to a small crowd of about 10. You can read the basics of the presentation. Following the presentation, there was discussion how does UCD fit (or can it) with agile programming methods. This was an interesting discussion. I tried to highlight that there is ...

David Czarneicki of blojsom tells attendees about internationalization of software. Admittedly it was either too technically based for me, or too generic. I also had to leave early to give my presentation. The short answer is that you better plan for it from the beginning, otherwise it gets expensive. That to do ...

Duncan Werner created an HTML rendered Powerpoint creation, collaboration and presentation tool called Thumbstack.com. It is in very early stages and not connected to any business model. It is very slick on the interface side, but more importantly it offers HTML-based functionality for "follow along" that he calls remote control. ...

Jakob Lodwick Social Networks and ways we can improve them by looking at real life social networks. The cruxt of Jakob's ideas boil down to better representing the ways we think about our relationships. they are all not equal and we systematically (and not so systematically) choose how we related to each ...

This is the introduction for the blogging I'm going to do for BarCamp NYC. I'm going to use this space to introduce people to the BarCamp concept as *I* understand it. To learn about the beginnings of BarCamp and the philosopy about it from those organizing it you can go to ...