Month: February 2009

Just recently re-discovered this through a facebook posting by a former frogdesign colleague…it is quite eloquent, profoundly succinct, a true personification of Dieter Rams‘ severely austere ethos as a designer–pure…

Continue Reading Dieter Rams’ 10 commandments for good design

I attended the Interaction’09 Conference, held in downtown Vancouver early February 2009, featuring a wide assortment of speakers and topics from “performance art robotics” to “waiting” (yes, just waiting) to…

Conversations, engagements and embodiments. Let me explain further… Conversations are central to what we do as interaction designers: staging necessary and significant dialogues with the stakeholders & teammates as well…

First it was interaction design. Then service design. What’s the next hot thing for design? Policy Design. (that’s my big gamble :-) The latest firestorm over Facebook’s privacy and content…

I wrote about simplicity last year in a posting based upon Paul Rand’s famous dictum: Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest…