The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is very pleased to announce its full slate of speakers for its first annual conference IxDA Interaction08 | Savanna to be held in hip, historic Savannah, Georgia USA on February 8-10, 2008. The conference will be held on the campus of Savannah College of Art ...
The auto industry is one of the few industries that is constantly envisioning itself sometimes as far as 20 years out. The now famous "concept cars" we love reading about or better seeing at the Auto Show make us weep with their visionary design and technology. Brands become engendered with ...
October 25th 2007
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I had my last of 6 classes of my Interaction Design of Web Applications studio workshop that I taught through Victor Lombardi's SmartExperience.org. It was a great experience of teaching and learning on my part and it seems that my students also enjoyed themselves.
For those that don't know, SmartExperience.org is ...
According to about 5 different plenary speakers at the recent Connecting conference in San Francisco, optimism is a requirement for good design. Consider me a "design culture" newbie, but I had never heard this before. There was no explanation why this was the case, but it did explain the ...
I have never felt so at home as an interaction designer at a conference as I did at Connecting. It was like coming to a big holiday dinner like Christmas, Thanksgiving or Passover at my older brother's house. There is an immediate familiarity with everyone in the home, but ...
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As many of you know, I recently spoke at Connecting07 the joint ICSID World Design Congress & IDSA Annual Conference. It was an honor to speak with so many amazing speakers. Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design & I gave a talk on ...
Virtual Hosting.com put me just in the top 100 UX Blogs. Yeah!!!!!
Personally, I think I am in the wrong section and they have my name wrong (as of publishing), but it's still nice to be included.
I think they got the top 10 wrong as well. but I don't really know ...
I'm not sure if this is design or engineering, or just lack of focus, but there is a HUGE problem w/ iPhone mail and I don't hear anyone else talking about it.
Ok, what's the big deal?
Well, first a little background:
1. I use Gmail for all my email. That is 4 ...
You might be aware of Michael Wesch's first YouTube hit ... "The Machine is Us/ing Us" that helps everyone understand Web 2.0 ... but he's just come out with 2 more amazing videos explaining other relevant topics: the state of Students today and the revolution about the meaning and relationship ...
October 10th 2007
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Recently, I've hit a situation where I had to really think about my current skills and my current abilities in terms of my career and I think I have some lessons learned for folks.
Background
At my current employer, Motorola Enterprise Mobility, my boss left. All for good reasons and under good ...
Motorola Enterprise Mobility (FKA Symbol Technologies) has an amazing dynamic design studio and we are looking for a top tier interaction design manager.
Well, who here wants to be part of this exciting opportunity at one of the most successful groups in Motorola. This ain't for you fashion-atis interested in RAZRs. ...
I'll be headed to the World Design Congress (IDSA/ICSID) the middle of this month and there is some pretty exciting stuff going on while I'm there.
Arrive Tue the 16th
I've go no plans ... Let me know if you don't either. I REALLY want to head over to the E. Bay ...