Posted on 03 August 2010
Over the last years I have noticed that many books and articles talk about the usefulness (or not) of personas, delving a little into the actual production and design of the persona as well as defending it’s usage. Very few explicitly define some of the activities that occur within the design research phase. It was [...] Continue Reading...
For some time I had been slowly acquiring books, reviewing books, and recommending books to colleagues who were interested in “getting into” interaction design, user experience design, information architecture or usability. This eventually led to me cataloging my list of what I consider the best books in the field. With help from my friend Dave [...]
Social Interaction Design is not web design. It’s not interaction design. It’s about designing complex ecosystems that support conversation, collaboration, intimacy — in short, community. Problem is, many people – even in the IxD world – don’t understand what conversation is, or how to create engaging communities.
“By its very nature, design is about exploring, about options, about embracing many disciplines and multiple points of view.Within this sometimes confusing and often contradictory diversity, leadership is the ability to discern vistas and pathways.” A Socio-Cybernetic Model for Designing Leadership in the UX Community View more presentations from Will Evans. Read more on UXLeadership.com [...]
This is really just a montage of images related to Power, Systems, Control & Being (I need to return tonight and add sources and links for all of you)….so these are more ‘video-clips’ of ideas floating around that haven’t been mixed down yet. It’s almost there, so I can wash the coffee stink off me [...]
If you are an experience design professional passionate about Search, you must attend the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC May 11-12. I have spoken on designing social search in the enterprise as well as designing search experiences a few times at this conference – and it really is the best conference around this problem space. [...]
