--Engage! - Interaction Design

Teaching SmartExperience.org class starting end of May

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:35:10 GMT

I'll be teaching a longer reprise of the course I taught last year on Interaction Design for Rich Internet Applications for SmartExperience.org. Course detail and registration information is here: http://smartexperience.org/classes/ixd-ria/ What I can tell you I've changed is: 1. A clearer course outline and instruction format 2. A defined project that every student is going to do 3. Clear outline...

Shared Google Reader

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:50:49 GMT

I'm not posting as much as before, but what I do do now is share a lot of what I find interesting in my daily readings using Google Reader. To see the latest, just look at the ride sidebar that says "Interesting". But if you want to you can go to my Google Reader Share page. There is a...

Creativity: Allowing beautiful accidents to unfold ... AKA Serendipity

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:35:23 GMT

When I think about what makes design so special I often get stuck, but today it was loudly pronounced to me as a process of purposeful accidents leading to serendipity. Today, while I was working on the visual design for a desktop application, I was "happy" with the design. Then by accident I hit the wrong layer in Fireworks and removed an element I had not planned to remove. The result? Well, I LOVED IT without that element and the design got pulled together after that on so...

Ok, I hope I'm back!

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:30:35 GMT

So I think I stopped the re-direct problem I was having. what a horrible world we live in when people have to hack sites like mine (I mean what! I have like under 1000 viewers) to try and increase their spam to really unethical sites. Well, no one wants to read this, but I hope to be back blogging soon. I'm very disappointed that the commenting feature isn't working, nor is the talk to me link off the left sidebar. Just email me directly. What I really want to do is find a way to...

Interaction08 | Savannah is close to selling out

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:31:14 GMT

With over 315 attendees registered for Interaciton08, this 1.0 conference for IxDA is going to tear it up in beautiful and historic Savannah, GA. Our many sponsors saw the light and put their money where their mouth is, after we announced our...

Buzzword vs. Google Docs

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:42:54 GMT

If this was just about ONLY writing docs, Buzzword is the best online rich internet app for composing documents I have used to date. Let's just start there. The level of graphical presentation, fluid transitions, great communication design, wondering discovery of advanced features, paper centric features, amazing spell check (yup, they upped the ante on spell check even), and wonderful iconography make for a much more...

Mommy, mommy! I'm a co-chair of Interaction08 | Savannah!!!

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:42 GMT

So yesterday, due to my really really hard work on help Dan Saffer bring Interaction08 to life, I have been given the title of co-chair of the conference. Yea!!!! Resume fodder for everyone! This is a really big deal for me personally (so sorry if I came across as light in the above paragraph). Dan and I have been working closely together on Intearction08...

Hey! I've been podcasted - Foundations of Interaction Design - in voice!

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:28:22 GMT

Listen to me talk about interaction design's foundations on Boxes and Arrows. Listen to the podcast here.

RIA? - Who cares?

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:11:06 GMT

I mean really? It's been almost 3 years since Jesse James Garrett coined the term AJAX (even longer since Macromedia [now Adobe] started using the term RIA itself) and in so doing set us off on our parade down RIA lane. ... Why is htis still considered a separate area of design and technology? Seriously, I just read the title of a blog entry about RIAs going mainstream. I mean name me a GOOD mainstream site that doesn't use some sort of richness. Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc. Ok, my...

NYC UXNet Holiday Party Announced

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:18:11 GMT

As I mentioned in my blurb about why I am excited about Interaction08, there is going to be a UXNet Holiday Party in NYC where I'll be buying anyone a drink who registers for Interaciton08 while at the party. I'll have an iPhone to register with. Here is the announcement for the party. See you...