Bend your mind around Messrs Jones and Freitas

Recently, my colleague Ryan conducted a two-hour IM chat session with Matt Jones. You can read the highlights over in the Adaptive Path blog, but if you have the time, I encourage you to delve into the unexpurgated version available on Ryan’s site. Their dialogue triggered a few associative notions in my own mind that [...]

Alan Cooper Told The Audience What They Wanted To Hear, Not What They Needed To Hear

A couple nights ago I saw Alan Cooper present his Interaction08 Keynote, An Insurgency of Quality, for a local audience. His presentation is quite rambly, but I think the heart of the thesis was: best-to-market always beats first-to-market quality takes time interaction designers are craftspeople programmers are craftspeople business management is optimized for an industrial [...]

I wore goggles, too

I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s, and basketball was my favorite sport to watch and play. Needless to say, the L.A. Lakers were my team, and its centerpiece Kareem Abdul-Jabbar my favorite player. To the degree that when I would play b-ball with my friends, and we’d pretend we were [...]

UX Week 2008 – New site, impressive schedule

One thing that’s taking much of my time at Adaptive Path is programming our upcoming UX Week 2008 event. I’ve been trying very hard to balance inspiration and information; visions of where we’re headed mixed with practical how-tos. As such, we’ve got people you’d expect, like Don Norman, Jeffrey Veen, and a coterie of fellow [...]

33 out of 36

After scoring 24 out of 80, I explored the other tests on the site. One that caught my attention is the Mind in the eyes test, which asks you to describe what someone is thinking or feeling based just on looking at their eyes. I believe it’s related to Paul Ekman‘s work on reading faces. [...]

24 out of 80

A little bit ago I answered a set of questions meant to measure my empathy quotient. I scored 24 out of 80. That placed me in the “low” category, according to the test: 0 – 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20) I’m thinking of getting “24 out [...]

The latest issue of Wired – articles worth reading!

I’ve been disappointed with Wired for, oh, 10-12 years now, but the latest issue had three articles that deserve your time. A psychologist who is competing with math and stats nerds on the Netflix challenge. Social science reprazent! Chris’ article on Free! I love that he’s able to use Wired as a venue for launching [...]

Jill Bolte Taylor at TED2008

When I wrote about TED, I mentioned Jill Bolte Taylor’s awesome (and I don’t use that word lightly) talk. It has been posted to the TED site, and if you have 18 minutes to spare, it’s well worth it. It probably it won’t have the power of seeing it live, but I’ve heard from friends [...]

Ubicomp happens

The latest issue of Interactions magazine features an article titled “When Users ‘Do’ The Ubicomp,” (subscription required to read the whole thing) which is the first academic-ish article I’ve read that addresses ubicomp the way I think about it. Ubicomp futures tend to be portrayed as planned, coordinated, intentional, purposeful connections between the devices in [...]

MX 2008 – Giveaways!

We’re trying something new this year with the MX 2008 Conference… We’re GIVING THINGS AWAY! To remind you — MX is our two-day confab on the emerging discipline of creative leadership, and has perhaps the most stellar collection of presenters we’ve ever had. It’s designed for people who’ve been around the user experience block quite [...]

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