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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
July 26th 2007
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IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah, GA – Feb 8-10.

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is now accepting submissions for its first annual conference to be held in hip, historic Savannah, Georgia, USA on February 8-10, 2008. Submissions are for Lightning Session slots, each of which is 25 minutes in duration around a single topic. Single or duo speakers are allowed, ...
July 17th 2007
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Get Leaflets – Blue Flavor rocks the iPhone

If you have an iPhone, I'm sure like me you've been hunting for those perfect Safari web applications. I have been seriously unimpressed with most iPhone applications. The folks at Blue Flavor have done something GREAT! (yes there are flaws). First let's talk about why other applications are lame. Well they all ...
July 7th 2007
Tags: interaction design

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Doesn’t everyone have to do an iPhone review

There have been a gazillion reviews of iPhone thus far, so why bother more than a week later. Well, first, I got mine just on Thursday, so I wanted to make sure I played with it for real before reviewing it. I even wanted to use some non-Apple "iPhone applications" ...

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April 28th 2013
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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 ...
March 6th 2013
Tags: general thoughts, organizing IxD, Studio, Uncategorized 2 Comments

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 ...
March 3rd 2013
Tags: event announcement, for fun, futures, general thoughts, organizing IxD One Comment

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
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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 ...
December 5th 2012
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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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