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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
April 6th 2007
Tags:
foundations
No Comments
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...