IxD Foundations Reading List
The past two falls have found me teaching the basic Interaction Design Foundations course at CCA. It’s great fun and we get into the basics of task flows,...
Category: Information design
Systems Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching the Systems class at CCA for the third time. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architect...
Visual Interaction Design Reading List
UPDATED 2019 – over the last four years, I’ve been teaching Visual Interaction Design at CCA (California College of the Arts) – which is a cra...
The Ultimate in Grids
I have long been a proponent of grid systems in design. After all, I started out as a print designer working on annual reports and other multipage projects. The...
By Popular Request – Page version of the Social Ecosystem Poster
Several folks have asked for a more portable version (4.4mb pdf) of the evolution poster we presented at the IA Summit 2010. So I have taken the diagrams and ca...
Unintended Side Effects
I have been presenting the material from our book over the last several months and have been asked questions about some of the anti-patterns and how we avoid or...
Diagramming the Social Ecosystem
One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the inter-relationships between categories,...
ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces
Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone. Christian Crumlish and I brought out some of the material we have been working on for you ...
Words to design by
At the Interactions 09 conference in Vancouver, Luke Wroblewski gave an interesting talk about the processes he and his team used to redesign the Yahoo! homepag...
yes we can! wow!
last night as the polls were closing and the election data was coming in, I stayed up to date by flipping around the tv channels AND visiting several websites. ...
IA Summit 2008 Here we come
Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted. Watch for more info but we will be c...
Seeking the future through the past
My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent t...
How to Submit a Proposal
I just finished as a reviewer for the IA Summit submissions and I have a whole new respect for how difficult it is to select and craft a program for a conferenc...
the importance of a common language
I am working on writing a set of use cases for a new project and as I am writing it occurs to me that the team I am working with calls all the different parts o...