–Engage

“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

Not feelin’ the new Apple site

Specifically, there is this new navigation widget on the Mac page. Check this image out: The basics of the design is that there is a horizontal scroll area, but the scrollbar is labeled with what you will see if a part of the scrollbar handle is under that label. I can use ...

My new example of the aesthetics of interaction

According to Wired magazine's recent article on the Wii talks about how "Fun won in the console wars". Now, I'm not a gamer. I haven't even opened up my Doom or Quake in years, which is probably why I'm coming so late to this one, but just reading the headline ...

Two great design lessons to start your day with

Aza Raskin teaches us design process & how to make a paper plane Aza is brilliant (sometimes). He is truly the spirit of his father. He has articulated design process using such a simple example. It is just wonderful to see. In this piece, he articulates why iteration is such an important ...

Duality of software/experience design – Ray Ozzie

Ray Ozzie is the new Chief Software Architect over at MS. Filling some pretty big shoes at that. Recently in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton he put out MS's philosophy when thinking about software design (as Reported in Putting People First). The relevant quote for me is: The guidance that we are giving ...

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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