As many of you know, I�m the vice president of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). I am also a former board member of UXNet. This means I think often about how to organize a community and advancing a discipline. This has really been a great exercise in differentiating tactics vs. ...

Here are my slides for my IxDA Symposium 1/2 day workshop on Designing RIAs while learning IxD. Man! it was hard to do this in a 1/2 day. I hope my students were forgiving. I had fun teaching it though. Great interactive group! Get the presentation at Slideshare.net

Joshua Prince-Ramus gave a great presentation @ the IA Summit on how he leads the development of architectural engagements using data visualization analysis -- Fractals arrive to architecture. click here for bio The reason I say this, is because Joshua presented a few case studies which produced amazingly aesthetic results by using ...

So all this fuss about Twitter got me in a fuss and I didn't want to miss out. So I've joined. Follow me! This is all in preparation for my trip to the IA Summit tomorrow morning. I get to enjoy a relaxing day in Las Vegas, a place I ...

Wow! what an opportunity to be a part of a great school doing amazing work promoting design and promoting design thinking. The d.School of Stanford is recruiting for fellows. Do you have what it takes?

Bruce Nussbaum from BusinessWeek published a talk he gave at the Parsons School of Design this past week. Are designers really the problem? Sounds like scapegoating to me. In it he states that designers need to move away from "designing for" to "designing with". Create tools that allow them to design ...

David Fore the VP of consulting services at Cooper tells us the important role of Interaction Design. David is a really bright guy and it is rare for me to see him put his face forward like this. It is usually Kim Goodwin in the spot light, so I like ...

Designing rich internet applications (RIAs) is 50% about designing time perception. To me this is such an unconscious thought, that when I get slapped in the face as I have just this morning trying to communicate with my team about this issue, it really reinforces why I believe so so ...

Dan Saffer nails it about what Design schools SHOULD be doing. I do think Pratt from my experience is doing the right thing. Dan, take a look at their ID program. It is all about doing. Their 1st year is a workshop in foundations of ID that dates back to ...

The folks at Humanized, headed by Aza Raskin (the last name is not a coincidence) bring you a Command Line Interface (CLI) to do many simple tasks for you on your computer. Let me try to explain. The folks at Humanized have decided that the modal trigger of your caps ...

Check out this new social feed aggregator that the folks at Involution Studios put together. This is the description from Dirk Knemeyer one of its creators: SPIVOT FEATURES * User-friendly layout and navigation. Looks and feels like a newspaper, not a feed reader. Yet, has more power, customization and easy access to raw ...