Listen to the sound of my speaking voice…

…introducing Day 2 from this most recent Adaptive Path’s UX Week, as a podcast from IT Conversations. You can download the presentation deck (PDF). The podcast cuts me off, as I was also introducing Michael Bierut, but you’ll see those slides in the PDF.

First day in Chile

Stacy and I arrived yesterday at 6:30am in Santiago airport, after something like 16 hours on planes or in airports (Oakland –>(change planes) Los Angeles –> Lima (stay on plane) –> Santiago). We slept for shit — during the longest leg, from Los Angeles to Lima, we were in the same row as a voluble [...]

The Kodak Camera: the first “consumer electronic’ device?

In my talk Stop Designing Products, I cite the 1888 release of the Kodak Camera as possibly the start of what we now call consumer electronics. I say this knowing that the camera was wholly mechanical — no electricity, so no electronics. But it had the characteristics we associate with such devices — complexity that [...]

San Francisco Values

Yesterday the Chronicle featured an article on “San Francisco Values,” as a response to all the San-Francisco-values bashing happening in this midterm election season (if the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, representative from San Francisco, will likely become Speaker of the House). Having lived in the Bay Area for almost [...]

Traveling to Chile and Peru, 9-27 November

Stacy and I are in active detailed planning mode for our Big Trip of the year. On Thursday 9 Nov we head to Santiago, Chile, from where we’ll be taking a bus to Santa Cruz for the first Latin American Information Architecture Retreat. On 13-14 Nov we’ll be in Santiago, where I will be speaking [...]

Wherein I look a gift horse in the mouth

This evening I attended an event at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto. I was looking forward to something similar to Yahoo’s Design Expo from a bit back — demonstrations of cool new mobile technology, things to play with, people to chat with. Instead what I got was a ’99-era party with boatloads of [...]

San Francisco in 1891

Written by Annie Haskell (one of the people Stacy is learning about in her dissertation work) We, some of us, watched our baby lie, sick and feverish and heard with sinking heart the doctor say: “The child needs fresh air; the house is full of sewer gas; boil the water before drinking, it is a [...]

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