Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends?
When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles. In case you haven’t read a single blog, Tweet, or Google+ post in the last week (and yet, somehow stumbled into this dark corner of the internet), Circles is Google’s way of allowing you to group people. You can put anyone into [...]
Brooklyn Beta
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Brooklyn Beta, a new two-day intimate web conference put on by Cameron Koczon of Fictive Kin and Chris Shiflett of Analog. I had the honor of being invited to present on some of our thinking and process behind #NewTwitter, the redesign of twitter.com. Smaller, Smarter, More Intimate The conference had only 150 [...]
Augmented Reality: Is It Real? Should We Care?
This talk was given at Interaction ’10 in Savannah, Georgia on February 6, 2010. Normally, I would put the slides up on my SlideShare but because so much of this talk was in video form, it seemed to make more sense as a post. Update: The video for this talk is now online thanks to [...]
So You’re Thinking of Becoming a Designer
A few days ago, my friend Liz Danzico asked a number of designers, researchers and other industry vetarans including Jim Coudal, Jared Spool, Joshua Porter, Ryan Sims, Steve Portigal, Whitney Hess and many others to answer this: So you’re thinking about being a designer? If I could tell you only *one thing* about going into [...]
Macroscopes
I’ve always been a big fan of the work that Schulze and Webb do and the insights from everyone in that company. I wasn’t able to see this talk in person but definitely recommend checking out this talk by Matt Webb on macroscopes.
Twinkle Hijacks Twitter Usernames
When iPhone apps first came out, there were two iPhone apps people tended to go with for accessing and posting to the popular Twitter service: Twinkle and Twitterific. Since then, superior applications such as TwitterFon and Tweetie have hit the market but the first to market advantage has ensured some measure of popularity with the [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Kevin is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, designer, and author. He is the co-founder of Incredible Labs and worked at Twitter, Raptr, Yahoo!, and Trilogy. He is @k on Twitter.
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