Being late spring, it’s that time of the year when hundreds of newly minted design graduates join the “real world” of design practice. So what would I say to someone eager to join the community of professionals dedicated to improving the human condition through useful/usable/desirable products and services? Other than some pithy trite axiom, I’d […]

A couple of very insightful interviews on the creation of real-world software and hardware products for Apple by third-party vendors: How Apple hardware is born How Apple software is born

Per a recent ixda discussion thread, here’s Dan Saffer’s list of the best articles for interaction designers to read. And Jack Moffet mentioned a couple very good ones too by Lauralee Alben on the heart of IxD and Marc Rettig’s short history of IxD. I would add this one from Cooper’s Kim Goodwin, on how […]

Following up on the initial posting on Google’s “data-driven” ethos by web designer extraordinaire Doug Bowman, and the subsequent heated debate on data vs. design (on ixda, etc.), another web design guru, Luke Wroblewski has published a beautifully compact articulation pointing out the falsity of the debate (which the NYTimes even used in their article […]

One of the most critical ideas advocated at CMU via Dick Buchanan’s seminar was that of “interaction” as extending beyond mere websites and software forms towards…well, lots of things: products, services, systems, processes, even entire environments. Indeed, going further, “interaction” is most powerful as a perspective, set of methods, and the core basis of human-centered […]