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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

Dan Saffer – The next “luminary” of interaction design?

  It isn't really so much what Dan has or hasn't designed. I don't know his portfolio of work. But I do know his mind, and more importantly how he has decided to share it and what he has decided to share. The path that Dan has taken himself on, has been ...

What’s in your [reading list]?

Here are the list of readings I've assembled for my Interactive Product Design (IACT 317) class I'm teaching this coming quarter at SCAD. (Link to the list of classes offered in the Interaction Design Minor.)  Before I throw the list at you, you should all realize that the class in question ...

So you say you don’t know where to start in Interaction Design …

A week or so ago, I explained to people why I'm so excited about the 2nd annual IxDA conference, Interaction 09 | Vancouver. In that post, I said that my workshop (not my talk), Introduction to Interaction Design might be cancelled due to lack of registration/interest. I got one or two ...

Interaction 09 | Vancouver

Well, it is time to do the thing. Interaction08 | Savannah was an amazing event. Over the remainder of the past year I have gone back to much of the content to inspire me or better give me direct support on my current on going work. While Interaction09 | Vancouver (Ix09) is ...

Designs with Soul

I've been thinking a lot about the topic of designing with soul. First a little background. I'm not audiophile, but I do love music, especially pop music. I've never liked industrial music of any kind. Techno or Freestyle. I always expressed my distaste for this music because it feels "souless" to ...

My new blog

Well, as you all probably know, my life is all about transition at the moment. New job, new home, new city, etc. So I thought to myself, this is the perfect time to create a new blog. Yeah! So a few notes:  I'm hopeful that comments will now be working and be ...

Where is IxD in 2008? Where is it going – NYC IxDA

Last night (12/10/2008) I had the honor of facilitating a panel with the brilliant duo of Ted Booth (Dir. of IxD @ Smart Design) and Jennifer Bove (VP of IxD @ HUGE) for NYC IxDA. The panel was more of a town hall with the overwhelming crowd of 200 peeps who ...

Transition

Moving from industry to education; from deep/big urban to small town; and I'm sure many more. My life is now filled with some pretty big transitions. It seems I am a soul in transition. I don't think i have gone more than 3 years without some major transition going on in ...

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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