Why You Are Not an Artist
Picasso. Van Gogh. Beethoven. Hendrix. O’Keefe. Kurosawa. Kahlo. Kafka. Magritte. Bukowski. These are people most agree are worthy of…
Category: design
The Future of WordPress: video
Here’s my talk at last months WordCamp SF. Thanks to everyone who offered thoughts on my request for ideas…
The tradeoff of the hyperlink
Nicholas Carr’s recent post on delinkification explores whether we’d be better off if we didn’t use hyperlinks in-line. He’s…
Gears of War 3: My wishlist for Horde
I own an XBOX 360, but only play a handful of games. Most games I’ve tried these last years…
The end of the killer feature
At The Economist Ideas Economy event Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, in an excellent talk about open source software,…
How UX can get anything they want
I’m a fan of the unconventional view that most people, most of the time, worry about the wrong things.…
Don’t be original, just be good
As another way of making the arguments I made in Good beats innovative nearly every time, here’s graphic design…
TurboTax Design FAIL
I’m so hopeful when I install the new version of something. Everyone is. An upgrade, the payment of cash…
Problem Solving & Kobayashi Maru
Over on my post Do constraints help problem solving, Aaron asked: I’m currently completing a dissertation titled Development in…
Good beats innovative nearly every time (repost)
Go here to read this article.
Why you should be a team of one
One of the best exercises a working person can do is this: spend some time doing the jobs of…
Three design lessons from the best vehicle of all time
When it comes to design and leading industries, we like to think it’s the amazing that wins the day.…
The future of UI – interview on CBC
The folks at CBC’s Spark show interviewed me about the future of UI, and the boring post. Good stuff…
The future of UI will be boring
In an interesting post on daring fireball, Gruber rhetorically asks: Our desktop computers human interfaces haven’t fundamentally changed since…
When visualizations go wrong, part 2
Here’s part 2 of my continuing series of visualizations gone wrong (part 1 was about a viz on web…
When visualizations go wrong
Sometimes information visualization goes wrong. We quickly confuse whizzy fun visuals with using visuals to make explaining things easier.…
Elliason does it again (amazing art)
One of my favorite living artists, Elliason, has a new project open in Copenhagen (He’s the guy who did…
Video: extended Q&A at RIM in Waterloo
From awhile back here’s a video of an experiment in public speaking – instead of doing the same song…
Management lessons from Gears of War 2
Recently I’ve been playing tons of Gears Of War 2 for XBOX 360, because of it’s fantastic HORDE mode.…
Cool UI at Nobel Peace Center
In Oslo last week I stopped at the Nobel Peace Center. Among the exhibits was this one which had…