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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

A response to Peter Morville’s “IA 3.0″

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 ...

What does it mean to humanize an interface vs. humanizing a system?

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 ...

Buxton on Sketching and Experience Design

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 ...

Humanitarian Design

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

Adobe Document Center – Secure document distribution

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 ...

UIE Brain Sparks – Blog Archive – World Usability Day: Is It Harmful to Usability Practitioners?

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!

World Usability Day by David Armano

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 ...

Humanized.com – “Content is King” & “8 rules for humane interfaces”.

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 ...

Interview with Tom Dair, co-founder of Smart Design

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 ...

Follow-up to “Web Design is 95% Typography”

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 ...

Designing for Symbol

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 ...

Elephants and Evolution – How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe

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.

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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