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I’m Writing a Book!
photo by chotda
After two years of discussions with Lou Rosenfeld, I’ve finally signed with his publishing company, Rosenfeld Media, to write a book entitled See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. For those that don’t know, Rosenfeld Media is like an O’Reilly for user experience books. They focus on compact, practical [...]
How Improv Teaches You to Build a Better Product
Improvisation: a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
Last year, I started attending a weekly informal group of improv enthusiasts. We’d spend a few hours in a living room practicing various improv exercises. Occasionally, we’d bring in instructors to help us improve our craft and give us more specific pointers.
As unstructured as [...]
IA Summit: Inspiration From the Edge
I’ve often believed that the best designers don’t get their ideas and inspiration from the place they work. As a designer that works in the social web space, I do look at a large number of new sites that come through the pipeline for inspiration. However, I also am a big advocate of experimenting with [...]
IA Summit: Content Page Design Best Practices
Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form and Yahoo! describes a framework for designing content on a site.
He begins with a discussion on how we currently optimize for sites - by studying their hierarchy and how pages relate to each other within the site. However, the site does not live on its own but rather as a [...]
Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web
A friend of mine pestered me to join a new site about a month ago. I had heard of it. From what I had heard, it was a new dating site with the worst name: iminlikewithyou (iilwy). As in “I’m not in love with you but maybe I’m in like with you.” The name alone [...]
At TED
Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). [...]
Restart Now? OK, How About Now?
What genius at Microsoft decided it would be a good idea, after an automated Windows Update, to not only give you a “we’re going to restart your computer in 5 mins if you don’t stop us” dialog but have it come up every 15 mins or so with no recourse to stop it?!?!
So if it [...]
Back from Eastern Europe
I just returned from CHI in Vienna, Austria last week, which is probably the largest conference for the industry that I work in. OK/Cancel and going back to school has made me realize how little I knew of the industry as a whole so this experience was very different from the last CHI I went [...]
New From Adobe!
What is it with Adobe’s Photoshop series? EVERY new version, they seem to redefine their File menu. Of all the menus, that one should be the easiest to keep consistent. O for opening a file, S for saving, right? Last time, Adobe changed the recently opened files to be in a submenu of File. Worse [...]
Worth 1000 Words
Kathryn and I are both into taking photos. I don’t consider myself even good enough to be called an amateur photographer because even that title seems to imply a certain level of skill and commitment these days. Nevertheless, we like taking good pictures and spending the time to compose good shots.
Worth1000.com has photography contests that [...]
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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.
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