–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

Evangelizing UX in UXMatters

I've been a regular contributor to Ask  UXMatters.com. This latest installment was about evangelizing UX in your organization. This is a topic I've had a TON of experience doing, since for the last 10 years, its all I've been doing. You can read my thoughts and those of others in this ...

Reprise to my Foundations talk on JohnnyHolland.org

Just a simple blog post to let people know that I posted a reprise to my "Foundations of Interaction Design" presentation I did at Interaction 09 | Vancouver on JohnnyHolland.org. As a reminder you can see the slides from the talk here. The JohnnyHolland.org piece is listed here.

Uday and his 3 Fundamentals of IxD

It's rare that I highlight other bloggers on my own blog. I mean I have my Share Feed on Google Reader which I wish I had a way to gain feedback on if people are using. I really do put a lot of stuff up there. But I digress. Uday Gajendar ...

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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