Click ‘n Play
I spent today looking at ~60 entries to Exhibit A, and thought I’d share some thoughts on what I saw. Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising, considering this is an AIGA event, but the number of sites that used images to display text was shocking. Designers have *got* to get over this need for typographical control. [...]
The Brilliance of Eternal Sunshine
The only movie I’ve seen in theaters in the last coupla months that’s truly worth the price of admission (if not more) is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be finding much of an audience, even with Jim Carrey in the cast. The irony being, this is probably Carrey’s single [...]
Kill Bill Vol. Lame
So, a week ago, I saw Kill Bill, Vol. 1 on DVD, and enjoyed it more than I had predicted. It’s basically a fun action movie, with stylized fight scenes, and, well, it’s fun. So, last night, I saw Kill Bill, Vol 2, which is receiving crazy critical accolades. It sounded like it would be [...]
Mini-thoughts on Minneapolis
I’m in Minneapolis for a few days. Primarily as a judge for Exhibit A, an interactive design case study competition. But also to enjoy the city. I’d last been here in 1997, and remembered it fondly. So I came out a few days early, and have done a fair amount of wandering and hanging out. [...]
Caterina told me to
1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. The Best American Science Writing 2003 We descend the Bodingo peninsula, an elevated ridge of land south of the park’s border that runs down [...]
A9 – The New Search
Amazon has released A9, a search engine that can search both the web, and within its books, simultaneously. Nifty. One thing that’s been getting a lot of press is how it presents your recent searches. Such an idea is hardly new. On August 29, 1999, I pointed out how Microsoft was doing the same with [...]
Points and Lines – User Research Analysis Goodness
One of my favorite sessions at the IA Summit was Laurie Gray’s case study on ethnography of stockbrokers and their trading methods(2 MB PowerPoint. It’s got Laurie’s notes, so you can really follow along). There’s a lot of good in it, but what most excited me is how Laurie used a simple visualization to better [...]
Brad DeLong Thinks — You Should Listen
From a political point of view, I’m something of an anomaly — a free-trade liberal. (Hell, a free-trade quasi-socialist). Brad DeLong, economics professor at Cal, and former economics advisor in the Clinton Administration, recently posted to his blog a piece he co-wrote with Stephen Cohen, “Thinking About Outsourcing.” I continue to find Brad’s thoughts and [...]
Enterprise Content Management is a Process, Not A Technology
My business partner Jeff just wrote an essay titled, “Why Content Management Fails,” about the pitfalls of standard CMS implementations. CMS vendors have spent years trying to convince customers that content management is a technology, and with the right solution, the problems go away. But in talking to people at organizations big and small, we [...]
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