Book review: Designing Interactions
Disclaimer: I met Bill Moggridge (the author) when he volunteered as a judge, with Brenda Laurel, and Andrew Dillon,…
Category: design
Creativity: Supply vs. Demand
Creative people like to create – no surprise there. But most people who create things struggle to get anyone…
In defense of simplicity
Recently two notable design advocates, Don Norman and Joel Spolsky, challenged the value of simplicity in design, and I’m…
Handcrafted software: Jackson Fish
Hillel Cooperman of Microsoft and Tastingmenu fame has started his own software company, called Jackson Fish Market. He was…
Book review: Dreaming in code
I was greatly anticipating Scott Rosenberg’s, co-creator of Salon, new book, Dreaming in code and was happy to get…
Time’s best inventions of 2006
Although this list isn’t in a web friendly top ten format, it’s certainly interesting to see what the folks…
Browser review: Opera 9.02
Rounding out this week of browser reviews: to be honest I can’t recall the last time I took a…
Browser review: IE 7 & Firefox 2.0
Something’s wrong if, after 5 and 2 years respectively, the two most popular web browsers deliver mutually low-key major…
This week in ux-clinic: managing sensitive designers
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m managing a small team of relatively young designers. They’re smart and…
Liveblogging the IDEA2006 conference
Rather than torture y’all with my first foray into liveblogging, I’m writing live comments, insights, and brlliant notes on…
Maps of war: animation of middle east history
The folks over at mapsofwar.com have put together an exception little visualization of the history of the middle-east, showing…
Doodles, drafts and innovators
There’s a great online exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute, exploring the history of various innovations – focused on the…
Where designers should go: Seattle IXDA ’19 edition
[Updated 1-31-19] I love Seattle and enjoy showing people why. When visitors interested in design or engineering come to…
This week in ux-clinic: the usability police
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’ve been asked by the boss to do a usability review of…
The ideal designer & project manager
One question I’m often asked is what is the ideal designer? – I get this from managers or VPs…
This week in ux-clinic: Designing for novices and experts
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re a start-up of veteran designers and software developers, building a cutting…
IDEA 2006 Conference, Seattle, Oct 23/24
I’m not a ra-ra kind of guy, but I’m super excited about this conference. Information overload is real: we…
Interactionary at SXSW? You decide
SXSW ranks as the coolest conference I’ve never been to: a wild combination of film, music, digital media and…
This week in ux-clinic: harvesting the idea farm
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re early on a project and doing lots of prototypes and crazy…
This week in ux-clinic: Can UI be funny?
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re supposed to be designing a short tutorial for an on-line banking…