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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

Nussbaum asks why aren’t designers helping with peace in the Middle East

Bruce Nussbaum, the design evangelist and managing editor at BusinessWeek, asks people on his blog why aren't designers out there doing more to create social change. An attempt at such a drastic envisioning was done in a book called "Next Jerusalem". It is a compliation by Public Policy people, Landscapers, Architects, ...

Why Digg?

I use Digg (Digg is a social news/content site) religiously, but for the life of me I can't figure out how it works. I love Digg. It generally is an easy way for me to get access to stuff that I wouldn't normally see. Most of it is "a waste ...

My UITips interview with Joshua Porter

Today my interview with Joshua Porter (AKA Bokardo) came out as part of the UITips Newsletter put out by User Interface Engineers. The topic is RIAs and AJAX. This interview is a way to give people insights into how I think about designing RIAs and AJAX applications. If they want to ...

More on Google vs. Yahoo Maps

C|Net ran an interesting strategic planning article and its effect on design choices while looking at Yahoo and Google maps. The underlying premise of the article is that on one side you have a group that is just building new products in a hurry to just see where they land and ...

Time is every designers constant companion

Ok, I might come off looking a little bad here, but hopefully you all will be forgiving. I was walking down the street last week, when I noticed a woman in a very beautiful dress. I started thinking to myself, why is this dress more beautiful (my minds perception obviously) ...

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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