A response to Peter Morville's article, "Information Architecture 3.0". There has been a lot of talk of the demise of IA due to various factors: Joshua Porter calls for the demise of IA based on HIS focus of social network software in how "relationships" actually trump "information" as the primary axis of ...

A recent blog post by Jono DiCarlo of Humanized about dealing with splog brought to mind the above question. In it they apply the theories of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - the very basic foundation of the company's philosophy - against the problem of dealing with spam on their blog. What is ...

Jared posts his notes from a talk by Bill Buxton who is today a Principal Researcher for Microsoft, up in Boston, reminding me why I have always appreciated Bill's contributions to the field of IxD. He articulates in this talk something I've been promoting in my own course that I will ...

I thought I'd let mey loyal readers know about Humanitarian International Design Organization (HIDO).

Adobe Document Center is a new rich internet hosted application that allows users to maintain a collection of protected documents that can be easily distributed throgh the Internet to any list of recipients you like. On first gaze it looks awesome. However, I can't fully use it yet, b/c it requires ...

In his latest Brain Spark, Jared posits that it is maybe not so good to put such a strong focus on "usability", when what we really need is good DESIGN!!! Thank you Jared!

I was going to try to do my own tribute to World Usability Day ... But David, of Logic+Emotion, did it better than I ever could. My version would be more like ... 1. Users are never wrong. It follows the adage of the customer is always right. But this goes the ...

I haven't looked into the Raskin Center or followed what Aza Raskin (Jef Raskin's son) had been up to since his father passed away for quite some time. But in reading my usual blog roll (anyone know a good way to publish an OPML?) the folks at AJAXIAN posted the ...

I got this off of Core77--an interview with Tom Dair who is co-founder and president of Smart Design. I particularly like this quote: We started out as industrial designers, but it's pretty hard to do product development unless you're understanding an interactive experience like how somebody would be working a product or ...

In October I sent a shout-out to an article entitled "Web Design is 95% Typography". Here I point you all to the part 2, that answers a lot of people's comments and questions. The part 2 is a good read as well. When are designers going to finally spend more time on ...

I'm letting everyone know that I'm changing jobs post Thanksgiving. I'm a new User Experience Designer for Symbol Technologies. I'm really excited about working for Symbol and finally working as a interaction designer with both software and hardware. I hope this will add a new layer of depth to my ...

I like the "elephant in the room" metaphor of this discussion of the changing landscape of application distribution models and development systems. Something any Web/Desktop software designer should be aware of. This Blog post on Read/Write Web highlights some of the good elephants that you shouldn't be ignoring.