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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 [...]

Destined to Ignorance and Darkness

PM: i might see your comics talk at Y! Berkeley… KC: in april? PM: y KC: why … ? KC: it’s the same as the one at ia summit PM: it’s the same day as a career day at cal, which i’ll be going to PM: well, in case i can’t make your talk (or, [...]

Tag Yourself

You’ve seen conference badges at conferences and nametags at big parties. At the recent Adaptive Path party, I “tagged” myself. Ha. Ha. I’m so clever, right? I mean gee, Kevin, you’re such an original character. Well let’s see what happened. I put: Kevin OK/Cancel Yahoo Comics Canada Skiing and then ran out of space. During [...]

8 Presentations in 20 Days

The month of March is looking to be slightly extremely insane. I was happy to help get some of our work at Yahoo! accepted into the IA Summit – we’re presenting a 45min session on Communicating Concepts through Comics and doing a full day workshop where we teach people to use the technique. There’s also [...]