Movies in Context
Jeff Gates proposes organizing a region’s movie showings by time instead of theater. It occurred to him because, as a parent, the most relevant piece of info isn’t where a film is showing, but when — because of scheduling a babysitter. From http://www.copa.org/images/bike/sare.html Such a system resonates with me, because I’m often in the mood [...]
Muy Bueno Muybridge
Ostensibly a biography of Eadward Muybridge, whose motion studies fathered cinema, Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows is more an historic tapestry of early northern California. Solnit realizes that to chronicle Muybridge’s life is to weave together a variety of themes essential to the period (1850s to 1880s), beginning with the notion of “going west” to [...]
Themes in User Experience, Part III – Emotion in Business
At the DUX 2003 conference, I found myself on a panel talking about organizational and business issues. I was substituting for Jeff, who was unable to attend. It was a great panel — each panelist presented ways they were able to get folks in their organizations to appreciate user-centered design. After the panelists spoke, I [...]
That Tricky Word, “Design”
Appropos of the DUX 2003 conference, I’ve found myself grappling with my relationship to the word “design.” It came to a head on the Tuesday following the conference, when I participated in a panel recapping what had happened. Before it began, I was chatting with co-panelist Hugh Dubberly, and mentioned that in the next iteration [...]
Up with Down With Love
It’s disappointing, but not surprising that Down With Love is doing such mediocre boxoffice. I caught it at the Parkway last night, and, well, I’m hazarding a guess that the film is simply too weird for most moviegoers. The movie is pure confection from start to finish, taking its Manhattan 1962 setting and running with [...]
Themes in User Experience, Part 2: Empathy
A long time ago, I wrote that “non-empathic geeks become engineers, and empathic geeks become information designers.” Empathy is a critical quality for people working in the user experience field. We’ve developed numerous tools, from contextual inquiry to usability testing, to help us get inside the heads of the people who will be using our [...]
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