Institute of Design’s Strategy Conference 2008 – A Disappointment

Over on Adaptive Path’s blog, I’ve blogged about my attendance at ID’s Strategy Conference (First, second, third). It definitely spurred some interesting thoughts, and I met a bunch of people new to me who were involved in interesting work. This is the third ID Strategy Conference I’ve attended, if you include HITS (the prior incarnation [...]

Hyperlinked tinkering

(I’ve posted this to Adaptive Path’s blog, but since it touches on common peterme.com themes, I thought I’d reprint it here. I might modify it a little bit, too. ) I’m in Chicago attending the Institute of Design’s Strategy Conference. I’ll be blogging thoughts inspired by speakers. The event started with a presentation by John [...]

RANT: Designers and crappy jobs

When we started Adaptive Path, we set out to create the kind of services firm we wanted to work for. And much of this was in reaction to common practice in services firms. There are many things we reacted to, but this rant focuses on one thing – how employees are (mis)treated. One of the [...]

Visiting Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland (and points proximate)

Stacy and I, for a belated honeymoon-type thing, are planning on visiting Ireland and Scotland from June 8-23. We fly in and out of Dublin, and would like to see Dublin and its environs, and then hop over to Scotland for some Edinburghian and possibly Glaswegian splendor. Of course, we really don’t know what we’re [...]

The Rise of the Networked Neighborhood

Earlier today I attended a presentation by Bernt Wahl on the work he’s doing specifying neighborhood geodata. A masters’ project for UC Berkeley’s iSchool, it also seems to be what underlies the business Factle. Maps tend to be geared around discrete entities such as streets, zip codes, city boundaries, county boundaries, etc. Neighborhoods have proved [...]

Married.

Among the many reasons I’ve been posting so infrequently was wedding planning. My own. Last Saturday, Stacy and I conducted our ceremony at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. Ryan posted a set of 16 beautiful photos from the event. To be truly forthcoming, Stacy and I were already technically married, having done a San Francisco [...]

Design will have a seat at the table – what do we do with it?

Of late, there’s been some discussion about whether the role of design will have a seat at the table — you know the table, the large mahogany one where all the important decisions are made. Adaptive Path’s search for a CEO (or, as one candidate put it to me yesterday, “It’s like your adopting a [...]

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