Mark Vanderbeeken of Experentia, a former faculty member of the Iverea Interaction Design school, and current avid blogger was interviewed for the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT/ID). Great interview on Experience Design. There are many great points in the interview to chew on. Mark has ...

As I mentioned in an earlier posting. I'll be speaking at UI11 this year. The Proceedings for UI11 are available for you to order (whether or not you attend the conference). My workshop on Designing RIAs with Bill Scott and my short talk about why RIAs are relevant for IxD are ...

Talk about timing ... as Peter Merholz posts this rash in accurrate generalization i was about to post something completely to the contrary. Thanx for the push, Peter. While I think the examples of Libraries and Museums are clear and precise to what Peter is alluding to: truly embracing cross-channel and cross-media ...

Leo Frishberg does a great review of Dan Saffer's Designing for Interaction on UXMatters.com. To sum up ... Dan's is an important contribution to building the discipline of IxD. It is a great read for many different audiences and levels of practice It could be more consistent around semantics and other definition issues, but ...

Check out this screencast of a project collaboration by Microsoft and the NY Times showing off some of the features in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Just like I mentioned in my previous piece on Microsoft Max WPF is going to radically change the way we can deliver network connected, distributed ...

MS Max is a project by the folks at Microsoft to show off some of the new features in the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) currently available in .NET 3.0 beta. This thing is worth checkin' out, especially if you have any interest in Rich Internet Applications. The Photo application depicted above ...

Enterprise Web 2.0 is a good blog for those interested in the business2business side of Web 2.0. How will these trends in technology and processes and relationships work their way from the masses to the enterprise. In a recent article entitled, The Coming RIA Wars the author, Dion Hinchcliffe, explores ...

SD Times reported a BZ Research study that was done this past july. Why are development managers interested in AJAX, and in related RIA and so-called �Web 2.0� technologies? The responses varied, but many cited the improved user interface experience due to AJAX�s elimination of postbacks. Nearly three out of four software ...

Absolutely NOTHING bug pure entertainment. If you ever made a Flash movie, this is for you!

uiGarden is a great UX Blog that translates the articles from English to Chinese and visa versa creating a nexus of these two communities. The article I recently published was inspired by a thread on a similar topic on the IxDA list. Take a look at "The Place for Standards in ...

David Armano of Digitas gives a great 4-point program for how to become a more compassionate designer. Budget not required. Since I don't think I've ever pointed to David's blog before, I want to take this opp to tell everyone how great this blog is--Logic+Emotion. It covers aspects of Brand, Marketing ...

Flickr's Map is a pretty nice idea. I know that Frappr.com mapped people and a photo of themselves, but this by Flickr is much more robust. Mapping your Photos To map your photos is pretty easy. Go to the "Organize" drop down and then choose "organize your photos". On the organize screen, ...

Eric Mattson was gracious enough to interview me for his Marketing Monger podcast series. In it I talk about RIAs, User Experience, Interaction Design, and others of my usual topics. A special thanx to Jared Spool of User Interface Engineers (UIE) for the intro. Listen to the podcast

Teh folks at Experientia pointed out Sr. Tim Berners-Lee call for calm around Web 2.0. In general, I'm definitely a pragmatist, and "calm" is definitely a good thing, but I do have to say that it is exciting to well finally have something to get excited about. In my estimation, while there ...