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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

Foundations of Interaction Design – Boxes & Arrows

I'm really excited about my latest article on Boxes & Arrows entitled "Foundations of Interaction Design". It's been a long time coming and I really appreciate the patiences of Chris Baum who personally held my hand through the editing process. Check out the article and contribute a comment or two on ...

Design Session 01 — David Ngo

David Ngo tells us why we need to know what design is and what design is in this very funny video called "Design Session 01". The pieces I liked about it: 1. How do you promote that your work ads value if you can't even tell people what you do? 2. Breaking away ...

I’m teaching a class in Interaction Design of Web Applications

If you live in NYC (or the commutable metro area) you might be interested in taking a class I'm teaching, "Interaction Design of Web Applications". The course is through the SmartExperience.org project of Victor Lombardi's. I'm really excited to be one of the first courses with this amazing project where students ...

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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