Monthly Archives: September 2008

The US economy is in the toilet and everyone who doesn’t work in the stock market or in government is either stuffing money into their mattress or simply watching the market freefall with jaw dropped. What is a designer to do?

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Tom and I went last week to go see “Breathing Life into Buildings: Interaction Design for Physical Spaces” hosted by the San Francisco chapter of the Interaction Design Association.

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Let’s face it: most talks around sustainability and green design are dull, preachy, and hand-wringingly apocalyptic when they aren’t all “Design Can Save The World!.” Which is why I was so happy to stumble onto Lunar Design’s The Designer’s Field Guide to Sustainability (pdf).

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Earlier this week I attended a talk at Adaptive Path by Dan Roam. It’s not surprising that the author of “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures” would be pretty handy with a pen, but the talk provoked more thought than I anticipated.

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My friend and former colleague Brandon Schauer tipped me off to the Open Prosthetics Project. It’s a really fascinating glimpse into the future of product design, when the values of “Web 2.0″ (transparency, community participation, hackability, the sharing of data) permeate fully into the world of physical objects.

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Nicholas Carr has written an important, yet readable, book in The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. It’s a book that, if the thesis is true, (and I suspect it is) it will have vast implications for those of us working in the technology and product design fields.

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When we were first talking about what the philosophy was behind how Kicker would design products, one of the terms we came up with was Inside-Out Design. Meaning that we care as much about how the product works as we do about how it looks or feels.

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Here is a pdf version of the Tap is the New Click presentation slides (8mb) for your downloading pleasure!

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I’m giving two presentations of my “Tap is the New Click” talk in New York next week. Both on the same day: Wednesday, September 17! First in the morning, it’s at Web 2.0 Expo. Then that night, I’m speaking at IxDA NY’s monthly meeting. As I understand it, the evening talk is currently packed to [...]

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Thomas Erickson and David McDonald have put together an interesting selection of essays in HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community . In a sense, this book is the B side to Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions in that it tells the history of interaction design, but in a less linear [...]

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