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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

Speaking Feb 22nd (Thur) in NYC – RSVP for details

YOU MUST RSVP TO ATTEND: NYC-RSVP (at) ixda (dot) org Rich Internet Applications: Why Do "Rich"? What is "Rich"? Presented by: David Malouf, Senior Designer, Motorola Date/Time: Thursday, February 22nd, 6:30pm Location: In Midtown, full details provided on RSVP e-mail nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org About the Talk: There's been a lot of talk about Rich ...

The human factor in gadget, Web design | CNET News.com

C|Net tries really hard to get UX, but doesn't quite. I find this article so interesting. Here is supposedly an org that led the UX experience with its Builder.com conferences in the late 90's writing an article about UX Design as if no one has ever heard of it before. ...

BarackObama.com Goes Web 2.0

Barak Obama takes Web 2.0 to the Presidential Campaign on his web site. I mean, it is about "You", right? I am really impressed with this site. I haven't looked at the others yet, but I'm impressed with how he set up MySpace for his followers. Very nice. I haven't even ...

No Accounting For Design?

In this recent article about ROI of Design in Fast Company, we learn how Whirlpool is attempting to monetize design. I find the method really interesting. They basically use evaluation methods which one might find to evaluate an advertising campaign (something those design companies have been doing for decades) and applying ...

Comics Templates form Sun.com

Sun has released a template of comics scenes and a character avatar to use for comic creation. I'd like to take this opportunity to just say that since I've been at Motorola Enterprise Mobility, I have fallen in love with comics as an amazing design exploration and communication tool. They are ...

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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