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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

What are the characteristics of good interaction design

[This is a response to the question on Quora, "What are the characteristics of good interaction design?"] THAT is a great question and I don't think anyone has truly answered it from all the intricate points of view that go into the making of a a fantastic interaction. The area that I ...

Featured on the Home Page of Slideshare.net

My presentation, "Make Your Users Boogie" is featured on the SlideShare.net home page under the UxLX 2012 event spotlight sidebar.

Peer Loft is looking for a 3rd Co-Founder

Using my blog for a little recruiting ... Peer Loft, the startup I'm now working on overtime, is making a new Software as a Service platform focused on amplifying the peripheral vision of creative professionals, by creating passively occurring transparency as modeled in the traditional artisan/designer studio of the pre-digital world. We ...

What’s your creative/collaboration super power

I was reading the great wrap up of the 99% conference by Behance. There is some really great thoughts captured/curated in that piece. It's like a real Making Ideas TED. Kudos to the organizers and editors. The one thing that jumped out at me was report of Keith Yamashita's talk: KEITH YAMASHITA ...

Studio = Serendipity by Design

[Today, I read a great piece by Mark Boulton (@markboulton) on his experience past & present with design critiques and how they've sorta been lost in the web design (and by extension I'll add the UX community). I've had this 1-2 written piece on the design studio and Mark's post ...

The Future of Me?

So after a billion twints (twitter hints) and Facebook teases over the last few months, I'm ready to explain what's been going on and more importantly what will be going on. The biggest piece is that I will no longer be a full time professor at SCAD. I love teaching; I ...

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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