My dreams have come true. Twitter has finally turned their Replies functionality into what they’re calling Mentions. For more than two years, replies consisted only of tweets that began with the person’s username, leaving us to search for ourselves to find all the other tweets where we were mere mentions. Now that Twitter has killed [Keep Reading…]
Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”
Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social. Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman [Keep Reading…]
More great press on the boxee NYC meetup
Earlier this week I told you about the 600+ people that attended the boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall on Tuesday. We’ve gotten some great press since then, and I wanted to share it. First, you can read boxee’s own recap of the event on their blog and check out TechSpank’s video coverage. Also: Boxee [Keep Reading…]
IA Summit 2009: A functional family reunion
Families fight. When you share that much time with the same people, and put your faith in them, and share a common history, and become reliant on one another’s successes, it’s very easy to feel disappointed and confused and argumentative when things don’t seem to be going right. But ultimately what allows you to express [Keep Reading…]
More than 600 people attend boxee NYC meetup
Last night I had the absolute pleasure of participating in a tremendously successful boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall. According to venue staff, more than 600 people were in attendance. It’s a huge space and the entire downstairs was packed, with many people also up in the balcony. I was thrilled to see such a [Keep Reading…]
User Centered Design is now closed
Last year at IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool declared that it was time for us to retire the dogma of user-centered design, citing that the most effective design teams don’t follow a specific methodology, but instead have a whole toolbox of techniques and tricks to use when the time is right. Flip through his slides [Keep Reading…]
IxDA Interaction 09: Day 3
My Twitter notes from Interaction 09 Day 3 — Sunday, February 8, 2009 — are below. I have gathered my tweets from Day 1 and Day 2 in other posts. Keynote: How to Change Complicated Stuff (e.g., the World) by Marc Rettig I’m Twittering from the last day of @interaction09 http://interaction09.ixda.org/ thanks to @boxesandarrows http://boxesandarrows.com [Keep Reading…]
IxDA Interaction 09: Day 2
My Twitter notes from Interaction 09 Day 2 — Saturday, February 7, 2009 — are below. I have gathered my tweets from Day 1 and Day 3 in other posts. Saturday Opening Remarks I’m Twittering from @interaction09 on behalf of the amazing @boxesandarrows. http://boxesandarrows.com @ebacon on the stage announcing the new @ixda board. @jdevylder is [Keep Reading…]
IxDA Interaction 09: Day 1
Well Interaction 09 was a blast! Vancouver is a hip, chic town and the energy level at the conference was really high. My favorite thing about the user experience community is just how much everyone loves each other and feels inspired by one another. While this year, IxDA’s second running the conference, had a very [Keep Reading…]
Hanging out at IxDA’s Interaction09
I arrived in rainy Vancouver late last night on Cathay Pacific’s once-a-day non-stop flight from JFK, along with Lou Rosenfeld, Peter March and Liz Danzico. I’m here to attend Interaction|09, the second annual conference organized by the Interaction Design Association a.k.a. IxDA. If you’re here and we haven’t met yet, please come over and say [Keep Reading…]
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