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Category Archives: interaction design
Artifacts & Behavior: activating reciprocity
February 25 10
got handed this today. It’s a loyalty card for a local café.
Interesting thing about it is that they make it really easy for you to get your first “freebee”: by giving you 4 purchases on the card you only have to purchase 1 coffee to then experience the satisfaction of a free coffee.
nice example of [...]
Social Life of Visualization at wds09
October 10 09
Yesterday I presented our research on using data visualization inside the social web at Web Directions South. Here’s the slides from the presentation, and an associated report we published for the research.. You can read the notes with the presentation over at slideshare
on design literacy
October 7 09
After yesterdays chat with Dan Hill, the EdDirections workshop, and werock event last night, I’ve been thinking about how design moves out of the studio and into the cubes & labs.
design. experience. interaction.
September 25 09
so – after a few weeks getting my head very damaged, I’m feeling a lot better about were I am wrt a meta discourse on interaction design. Highlights from the past few weeks for me were:
Herbert Simon’s use of the word “cookbooky” in Sciences of the Artificial
Richard Buchanan’s “placements” and subsequent alignments I started to [...]
Design at the threshold
August 23 09
At our recent ixda board retreat (caveat – I’m an IxDA Director) there was overwhelming agreement that we (the org, network, & field) were at a tipping point. Technological culture has extended to affect so much of our experience*, and it’s clear that Design is going to play a pivotal role in helping us thrive [...]
The Social Life of Visualization
August 2 09
We’ve just published an article, The Social Life of Visualization, over at JohnnyHolland.
The article introduces our framework for Social Data Visualization, and gives a good intro to the idea of object centered social systems. Let us know what you think!
Social Visualization Patterns
July 9 09
Today we launched the first major public outcome of a project I’ve been leading for the last year, a site documenting our Social Visualization framework. You can check it out at http://socialvizpatterns.info
Visualizing a fundraiser
June 28 09
Decided to sit down this afternoon and get jiggy with processing. For my first sketch I visualized the recent fundraiser IxDA ran to rise money for our next-gen infrastructure development.. check it out and let me know what you think!
making it up as we go along
May 28 09
I believe that interaction design (and by extension, service design) is an emerging practice.
Designers who do this kind of stuff are making a lot of it up as they go along. They’re inventing new methods, creating hybrids of “best practices”, testing the effectiveness of their existing methods, and (thankfully) sharing their discoveries with the wider [...]
