Say hey if you’re at DUX
I’ll be at the DUX conference for the next couple days. If you’re there, look for me or drop me an email and we’ll meet up.
CMU Design Listmania
Jeff Howard, a recent CMU Interaction Design alumna and friend, just put together a set of Amazon Listmania booklists that cover the primary readings for the graduate program, along with a couple of selected courses. They’re all good, but I especially recommend the Graduate Design Seminar and Design Management lists. Both were taught by Richard [...]
Google Talk
Designers rarely get to work on their dream projects. When I was researching instant messaging in grad school, the prospect of designing a new instant messaging product was fanciful at best. When I came to Google, the odds improved a bit. When I became the designer on Google Talk, it still didn’t quite seem real [...]
Larry or Sergey?
Guilty admission: I can’t remember which of the Google founders is which. Terrible, I know, but true. Ever refer to a person by the wrong name? What a faux pas. I almost did it yesterday. I was in a meeting with both of them. Me, them, and just a couple others. I was talking to [...]
Eater of Burritos
Oh how this city makes me proud. Burritoeater.com aims to be the Web’s most complete source of information on San Francisco taquerias – where they’re located, what they look like, if they’re open late, whether they serve breakfast, what the SF Department of Public Health says about them, which ones double as cell phone retailers, [...]
Trendy Typography
I’m no hardcore type geek. I mean, I love my humanist sans serifs (Syntax, Scala Sans, you make my heart go pitter-patter), but like most designers for web and software, my daily world rarely extends beyond a few universally-installed regulars. But I thoroughly enjoyed Typographica’s Our Favorite Fonts of 2004. It’s a concise summary of [...]
Microsoft Social Computing Symposium
I had to admit a tiny ping of melancholy when Molly mentioned that she was heading to the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium. The irony here is that I’m up here in Seattle right now, working with engineers in our Kirkland office. Between the people I met at IBM Research, grad school, conferences, and then all [...]
One List to Rule Them All
Last weekend I got coffee with a businessperson who was looking to move into interaction design. Shocking, I know, but also a good sign. He asked for a good resources to get started. In the past I’ve given people an extensive list of books, articles, websites, etc. This time I tried to go simple — [...]
I could’ve demoed for him
Going through old unpublished blog posts and found this story from a year and a half ago: Just before I left Pittsburgh for the summer, a co-worker friend came over to my house to record some voice-overs (my place was the unofficial recording studio for the Design department). While I was getting set up, she [...]
Comments Re-enabled
Comments are back. I had a bad case of the comment spam and forgot to re-enable them. Thanks. Also, after too long just admiring the brilliance that is del.icio.us, I’ve started occasionally posting. If I keep up, I may do that linklog thing here – we’ll see. Finally, as a show of good faith that [...]