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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

Bill Buxton on the relationship between engineering & design

In BusinessWeek Bill Buxton gets a short piece where he answers the usual engineering type question regarding UX design. It is a beautfiul piece that for the 1st time for me articulates the absurdity of the initial engineering question and outlines the various levels of design "education" from easy to figure ...

#disignhybrids @johnmaeda

John Maeda the president of the Rhode Island School of Design is doing an experiment on Twitter. He is looking for design hybrids. It's a great idea and is totally in the spirit of many of the conversations I've been trying to lead around the realities of design and the ...

My latest on Johnny … It’s about creating human connections

Well of course I have to add a link pointer to my latest piece on JohnnyHolland.org. The piece is a teaser for the presentation I'll be giving in Malmö, Sweden this coming June at the From Business to Buttons conference. Check out the piece.

If you ever wanted to understand the history of the Internet

This is an amazingly well done detailed video/animated history of the technology that makes up today's Internet. Very COOL!!! Thanx (@flytip)

Intra-technological age (1/2 baked, but gotta get it out there)

I have had this idea in one shape or another for a few weeks now. It all started during the days of the heavy debates on the IAI and IxDA lists about the nature of our communities and the relevance if any to the term UX for me in particular ...

Summer camp for a professor = consulting

This summer I need to go to camp. Yup. Like the young school teachers who turned camp counselors over the summer, I too need a job. So let me talk a little bit about what I can do for y'all. Remotely: Do Interaction Design work. UI Design work on web, software, embedded and ...

What? You aren’t going to “From Business to Buttons”?

Do you live/work in Europe (North America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa or Latin America)? Are you involved in the world of products or services that involve electronics, software or web sites? Do you manage these products, design these products, or otherwise help define what it is they'd do? Then you have to ...

Kudos to Kicker on another amazing design case study

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="380" caption="VOIP Conf Phone - by Kicker"][/caption] When I think back on the early days of the creation of DUX, back in Minneapolis, when we talked about case studies for design. THIS is what I had in mind. THIS type of case study from start to finish of ...

Video Prototyping is the NEW best tool for IxD

I recently was honored to have some time with the Esteemed Bill Moggridge, co-Founder of IDEO, author/editor of Designing Interactions, designer of the first laptop and the person who coined the phrase "interaction design". Let's just say I was a tad faklempt at the honor. Unfortunately, I can't go into right ...

My 2008 State of IxD presentation (from back in Dec)

I'll let the video stand on its own! I'm so excited that this talk came to the web finally. NYC IxDA - Dave Malouf - The State of Interaction Design from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

today, on twitter I announced I’m quitting IxDA

Not only did I say I quit IxDA, but I also give up the identity of Interaction Designer and the belief that "interaction design" is a discipline of design. Note the new twitter ID. I'd like to thank the following people for helping me come to this conclusion: Andrei Herasimchuk Jarod Tang Jared Spool Milan ...

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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