Interaction’09 highlights

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…

IxD is about three fundamental things

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…

Next big thing: policy design

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…

The complexity of simplicity

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…