Monthly Archives: November 2008

• We’ve played with @Boxee and it seems cool although it has some interesting interaction design problems. We’d be happy to help solve them… #
• OH: “It’s like The A-Team. But feminine. And a latte.” #
• New PC + experimental hardware up and running (finally). Now we’re watching each other perform

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Last year, I wrote up an Interaction Designer’s Thanksgiving. That was a more general list of what we should be thankful for always. This year, I want to focus on what we designers should be thankful for this past year. So, without further ado, here’s my list. Continue reading A Designer's Thanksgiving 2008 >>

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Never underestimate the power of a good click. Continue reading The Power of the Click >>

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• Week o’ Wireframing. #
• OH: “This document is like short-story writing by engineers. Be very afraid.” #
• Wrestling with technical constraints to figure out a certain gesture/action combo. #
• We’re wondering how much of this gestural g-speak interface is live and/or useful: http://oblong.com/ Cool looking though. #

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Despite a panning review in the New York Times and scoffs from Joel Spolsky, I really enjoyed Outliers: The Story of Success by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, who is also the author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Continue reading Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell >>

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It would be difficult to name a more influential article written in the last 20 years in HCI or Interaction Design than the late Mark Weiser’s The Computer for the 21st Century. Starting with its now-infamous first sentence (“The most profound technologies are those that disappear.”), the article has had a profound impact on how we think about computers and, really, about the future itself. Continue reading Tabs, Pads, and Boards (and Dots) >>

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We’re coming up on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10. I’m a big supporter of this, and of Amnesty International, which works to protect these rights. Which got me to thinking: why isn’t there a list of users’ rights anywhere? What is the baseline that all users of every product everywhere should expect? So using the UDHR as a starting point, I drew one up. Continue reading A Universal Declaration of Users' Rights >>

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