Monthly Archives: December 2008

The jackhammering behind our office is awesome. Sigh. # A 20′ Multitouch Wall in Three Weeks: http://nuigroup.com/log/dubaiwall20/ # Ball-it is cool: a ball-like remote control device you gesture with. http://icanhaz.com/ball-it (thanks @chadt!) # We just cracked 300 (307!) subscribers to our RSS feed! Thanks for reading! http://tinyurl.com/6pdkfo # BART launches an API (!): http://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/index.aspx # [...]

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For all of you aspiring shoe designers out there, swing by the Fluevog store in the Haight tomorrow and bring a drawing of your dream shoe. Fluevog is hosting a party to honor the latest winner of their Open Source Footwear project.  You can read an interview I did with Stephen Bailey to get more [...]

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UPDATE: I updated this diagram in 2009 for the second edition of Designing for Interaction that addresses some of the shortcomings I note below. The diagram now looks like this (click for larger image): Like almost nothing I’ve done, a model that I put in my first book Designing for Interaction showing the overlapping disciplines [...]

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Amazon has started to deliver copies of my new book Designing Gestural Interfaces and the book will supposedly be on shelves tomorrow. In honor of that, I’m releasing some drawings my friend Rachel Glaves did for the book, suitable for using in documentation. Especially useful for those of us who can’t draw well, the drawings [...]

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It is awfully hard to change learned behavior. Once people get used to do something one way, especially if they do it very regularly, it is hard to get them to change. It is often easier to change the non-human parts of the system than it is to change human behavior. We’re seeing this a [...]

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For as much as designers like to use the iPod as an example, seven years after its launch, we’re still as a group mostly ignorant of how it was made. There is still a mystique around it. Enter The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Steven Levy.

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