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What’s on my iPhone

Posted on 23 April 200925 May 2011

Preston Smalley discusses his most used iPhone apps: Facebook, NY Times, Mint, eBay and Google as well as the ones he wishes existed or were better: LinkedIn, Tom Tom, Skype, PowerPoint, and Fitbit.

Product Design and The Recession

Posted on 15 October 200815 August 2018

One topic that continues to come up in discussions I’m having with colleagues, friends and family is the economy—what’s the macro-level impact of the recession we’re facing and how it may affect our industry. I’m somewhere in the middle on whether we’re looking at a deep 10 year recession or a shallow 12 month one….

Thoughts on Product Planning and Innovation

Posted on 20 August 200815 August 2018

I’ve discussed with a few people recently different models for product planning and strategy which reminded me of a paper I put together last fall in my design innovation class. I’ll post the PDF here now and hope to make it a more formal blog post soon. PDF: Leading Innovation Strategy and Process in Firms…

THE book on form design

Posted on 7 May 200815 August 2018

Congratulations to Luke Wroblewski on the release of his new book! Luke has become the foremost expert on form design in the design industry and has now put together all his thoughts in an easy to use book. He provides the good, the bad, and the ugly of form design with many modern examples. Finally,…

THE book on form design

Posted on 7 May 20087 May 2008

Congratulations to Luke Wroblewski on the release of his new book! Luke has become the foremost expert on form design in the design industry and has now put together all his thoughts in an easy to use book. He provides the good, the bad, and the ugly of form design with many modern examples. Finally,…

Reflections on Interaction08

Posted on 22 February 200826 February 2008

Wow! What a terrific conference! I’m fired up about Interaction Design following the inaugural IxDA conference in Savannah, GA. As I reflect on the conference, here are the highlights for me: Bill Buxton [video, book] – We must embrace our unique qualities as interaction designers, respect the talents of others (e.g. developers), and together change…

New Interactions Magazine

Posted on 8 February 200820 February 2008

On my flight to the Interaction Design Association’s first conference in Savannah, GA I found it fitting to flip thru the revised Interactions Magazine. Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko, the new editors of the magazine, did a bang up job bringing in an assortment of new contributors which I found quite refreshing. Notably I really…

Email as an Input Method

Posted on 1 October 20071 October 2007

I’ve noticed a number of services are popping up that use email as an input method in very creative ways. Here are a few examples: Tripit (Travel site aimed at organizing your itineraries) Users can forward any confirmation email (e.g. from an airline, hotel, rental car company, or travel site) to a unique email address…

Yahoo’s Elegant Interaction Design in Search

Posted on 1 October 20078 February 2008

I read in Techcrunch about Yahoo!’s new improvements to search results. What caught my attention was how elegant the search suggestion widget operates. Unlike other search suggestion sites which annoyingly get in the way all the time with their smarts, this one senses hesitation in the search box and only then displays the results–that way…

SxSW 2008

Posted on 13 September 200723 September 2007

I’m looking forward to attending next year’s SxSW and am impressed at all the panels that people have proposed. Below is one I’d like to moderate, provided I get selected. 🙂 Letting Community Content Shine Through How do you design a site that lets users feel it is truly “community owned and operated”? A site…

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