Design Discourse
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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