When I was in Brazil I had some wonderful conversations with Jonas Löwgren. It was so fortuitous that we finally meet after conversing and collaborating across the miles so far away from both of our homes. We were sitting at breakfast 1 morning talking about interaction design (that was every morning) ...

... Is to apply the arts--both aesthetics and creative process--to contexts of utility while maintaining balance between the market, construction, and the human situation (not Hannah Arendt's version) and facilitate those who are more expert at those same three areas of concern.

I came back from Brazil about a week ago. My time there was really great! Pictures of architecture, fruit and people can be found on flickr. The Interaction South America conference (my reason for the trip) was really great. Érico Fileno (@efileno) led a wonderful team of organizers to great ...

Recently on twitter I asked folks who they felt were the best and most influential graphic designers besides the almost ubiquitously accepted, Paul Rand. I said that I was compile the list of folks, so here it is. Massimo Vignelli Milton Glaser Roger Black Erik Spiekermann Louise Fili Paula Scher Saul Bass Susan Kare Josef Muller-Brockman Wolfgang Weingart Jan Tschichold Tibor Kalman Barbara ...

Below is the slide deck (on slideshare.net) for my keynote presentation at Interaction South America in Curitiba, BR. It seemed to be well receive. It was video taped and you might have been lucky to see the live web cast, but if not I'm told the video will be replaced ...