http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ thoughts and observations about design, information architecture and design history en-us 2008-02-04T21:55:22-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/new_year_new_role_new_blog.shtml I have started anew and am now blogging over here.... 611@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ 2008-02-04T21:55:22-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/zero_one.shtml The Zero One festival is this week taking over San Jose. A Gallery Crawl happens on the 8th and all the museums and galleries are open with events and installations as part of the festival. The show my sister curated... 610@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Interaction Design 2006-08-07T14:30:35-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/the_fuss_over_tagging.shtml Tagging seems to be as much of a "HOT" thing in the web world right now as Web 2.0. I know we are doing a lot of thinking about tagging here at work - especially in the context of nailing... 609@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Information Architecture 2006-06-21T11:59:20-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/tribes.shtml Reading Peterme's post about being without a tribe struck a nerve with me. I have been feeling like I am ungrounded lately. Several years ago it was super clear. Being very involved in getting Boxes and Arrows off the ground,... 608@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ People 2006-05-31T23:25:47-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/on_the_nature_of_identity.shtml I have been thinking about Identity a lot lately. One of the things my team thinks about in relation to the Yahoo! Network is identity and how a person is represented across the websites. It got me thinking back to... 607@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Community 2006-05-29T16:21:20-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/remiss.shtml I have been so slack. I thought when I revived this site that I would have things to say but I am sooo busy at work it is hard to sustain the interest after hours. I am however hiring -... 606@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Interaction Design 2006-05-15T22:28:12-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/josef_muller_brockmann.shtml This great flash site of Josef Muller Brockman posters shares some of the highlights of a current gallery show in Dublin. Brockman is one of the great poster designers from the Swiss school of design.... 605@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ History 2006-04-08T20:14:21-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/summit_interview.shtml I forgot to mention that the folks at AOL interviewed me at the summit and you can get the podcast of it at iTunes. I talk about the Yahoo! Network Map that we had in the poster sessions and the... 604@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ AOL 2006-03-29T17:48:46-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/recovering_from_the_summit.shtml Got back from the IA Summit around 2am last night. A 4 hour flight delay. But I am jazzed. I had a great time and feel reinvigorated for what I do and for all the cool work. All my pics... 603@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Information Architecture 2006-03-28T23:30:44-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/etech_this_week.shtml Bill Scott - who works with me at Yahoo! on the Pattern Library inititatives - represented Yahoo! at eTech this week and gave the Yahoo! keynote. From what I hear, he gave a great talk that really drove home... 602@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Conferences 2006-03-10T12:19:32-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/ia_summit.shtml I will be attending the IA Summit at the end of this month - this will be my 5th one. BranchLogic and my team at Yahoo! collaborated on a project last year that will be presented in the Poster sessions.... 601@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Information Architecture 2006-03-02T22:59:42-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/yahoo_interaction_pattern_library.shtml The reaction to the recently launched Yahoo! Pattern Library and the UI Code Library has been amazing. When we (Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler and myself) presented last year at the IA Summit we were asked by a lot of people... 600@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Patterns 2006-02-14T15:34:49-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/just_launched.shtml So today we took a huge step to contributing to the collective knowledge base and released to the public (with Creative Commons license) our very own Pattern Library and UI Interface Code Library. We have worked really hard to take... 599@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Patterns 2006-02-13T16:34:38-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/resurrected_from_the_deep.shtml I have decided to bring Design Writings back. Since I am no longer editing Boxes and Arrows, I thought I might occassionally have something to say. So here I am, back in the world and hope that folks find their... 598@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ Information Design 2006-02-13T16:27:57-08:00 http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/designwritings_retirement.shtml As I am sure you have noticed by now, I am not keeping DesignWritings up very well lately. My photographic life, my job and Boxes and Arrows, as well as some recent health issues, have left me little time to... 597@http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/ People 2003-12-06T17:31:42-08:00