Me, Michael Bierut, and User Experience Week 2006
Part 2 of my conversation with Michael Bierut has been posted.
In this installment, we touch on ethics, politics, and designing tangible futures. Lots of good stuff. Some favorite passages:
“I also sometimes hear that, for instance, design adn politics don’t mix. Sure they mix. Everything mixes. The goal is to seek an integrated life, which [...]
IDEA 2006 – Three new speakers announced!
Over the past week I’ve had some great discussions with people whom I wanted to present at IDEA 2006.
And in that last week, I’ve lined up three new speakers:
Fernanda Viegas, IBM Research, History Flow
Fernanda will address the upsurge of visualizations online, and how more and more people are able to visualize their [...]
peterme wikipedia contrail
Finally a blog meme I like.
Darin Morgan – writer of three brilliant and one good X-Files episodes
Lesson 3 – hip-hop song (no entry)
Lily Tomlin – American actress, in the current movie A Prairie Home Companion
Robert Osborne – host on Turner Classic Movies (I was trying to see if they at all mentioned why he walks [...]
Don’t you all know what each other is going to say?
So, one of the things that is explicit for me in planning IDEA is that I *don’t* want the usual suspects speaking. I’m feeling particularly good about this as I look over at the latest cause of conference buzz, Aula.
The main public event features Clay Shirky, Joichi Ito, and the follow on private event [...]
The World of The Sinister
I live with one, and work with at least two others.
I’m talking left-handed people. The most recent episode of Quirks and Quarks, CBC Radio’s weekly science program, has a lengthy and interesting segment on what causes left-handedness (MP3, 20 min) (hint: still not quite known), and typical traits of left-handers. If you’ve got a [...]
Stories of the George Foreman grill
From the It’s old but it’s new to me department comes this story of the George Foreman grill as a means for the impoverished to prepare a meal.
I recently subscribed to a bunch of new podcasts, including NPR’s Hidden Kitchens, and this was the first download. It’s remarkably touching, particularly hearing George explain his [...]
Thoughts while reading the premiere of IN: Inside Innovation
Its process of creation stirred controversy in the blogosphere. Last week, the first issue of BusinessWeek’s Inside Innovation appeared to the world. Here are my thoughts as I read it.
- Marissa Mayer on the cover? Really? Did BusinessWeek feel a need to “catch up” to Fast Company? Do magazines talk of a Mayer gap? (Or, [...]
Don has a point but…
In a recent essay, Don Norman bitches about the tendency among designers and researchers to call the people who are the subject of their efforts anything but, well, “people.”
And I think he has a point — words do matter. Though I think he overstates the point — those other labels (well, except for “consumer,” which [...]
20 Minute Book Review: jPod
(Written on the commute to work, which lasts 20 minutes.)
My colleague Janice attended the super swanky D conference; among the schwag bag items was Douglas Coupland’s latest novel jPod.
I’ve been reading Coupland’s work since Generation X, and have found it to be wildly uneven. I distinctly remember enjoying that debut book (though I’ve never looked [...]
The Small Things
Living with an archaeologist, and having spent a very little time at her dig site, I came to appreciate how it’s about the small things. Hell, when I was digging, I was excited to be digging up rocks, because at least it wasn’t just sand or dirt.
Anyway, Stacy reports a major find on her site: [...]
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