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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

The ultimate need for “less is more” – Birth

Last night I went to a Tribeca Film Festival premiere of "The Business of Birth" and it truly brought to clear light the theory of "less is more" and the how sometimes the best we can do with technology and design is to stay the hell out of the way! Being ...

UX Pioneers – catalogging the UX Professional Landscape 1 interview at a time.

Tamara Adlin is putting together an amazing collection of interviews of UX professionals who are shaping our world called UX Pioneers. Her first 3 interviews start off with Jakob, Peter Merholz and Whitney Quesenbery. A nice mix of very different worlds. She has lined up an even more amazing list of ...

“What is Interaction Design” as presented at IDSA NE: Shift Conference

Enjoy this very short presentation trying a different type of definition of "What is Interaction Design". I gave this presentation at the IDSA NE District Shift conference as the introduction to a panel intended to be a survey of the practice of interaction design.

WWSD

So what is "WWSD"? Well, obviously it is "What Would Steve Do?", as in Steve Jobs. Now, we know that Steve is not an interaction designer, but he represents Apple (as any good CEO should represent their company) as a visionary who understands product design. So what are my lessons? 1. When ...

Speaking at IDSA NE: SHIFT

Sorry for the short notice, but I wanted to let people know I'll be speaking at the IDSA N.E. District Conference, "SHIFT" coming up April 21st. I helped organize a 90min. panel presentation and conversation about Interaction Design. If you are going to be at the conference to be held at ...

The Secret War: Information Architecture, what is it?

My buddy Chris and I have a way to really get debates going. Here is one based on the article by GK Van Patter that he lauds and I hate. It started here, when Chris points us to GK's article (go there to read GKs article. I don't want to add ...

Report back from my Blend Boot Camp

Blend review I just completed what could only be called a boot camp in how, why, where, what of MS Expression Blend, the new interactive design tool, which is part of the Expression Studio suite of design tools. I have to say that my introduction to Blend is very different ...

For Sale: Kitchen Island & 3 bar stools (Brooklyn)

Yes, I know this is not on topic, but what the heck ... I'm selling a custom designed kitchen island made from IKEA parts with 3 bar stools. I made this kitchen island when I moved into my soon to be old apartment 2 years ago. I put the ad itself ...

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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