Archive for June 2007

21 Jun 2007 1056H

D-School: Innovation Institutionalized or Higher Education Scam?

Occasionally I wonder about going back to school. No longer for the PhD, my MA was long and expensive enough, but, of course, when you’re young, you tend not to think about these things, because life is long and youth is forever. The latest of these inquiries revolves around another master’s, this time in interaction [...]

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21 Jun 2007 1043H

The freedom to play, the need to constrain

One thing that’s been wracking my brain lately is how to create a process wherein designers inexperienced in designing for interactive media are allowed to have a sandbox for experimentation and yet have their excesses constrained within the sandbox through vetting from user experience professionals.
See, each year there seems to be an endless stream [...]

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20 Jun 2007 0731H

Beer pouring robot

From Tim.

When you think about all the questions and decisions that went into making this happen, it’s sort of mindblowing. For instance, why? Why create an $800 beer pouring robot that opens a can of beer and pours it for you, and not very quickly at that? I suppose there is a bit of [...]

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15 Jun 2007 1056H

Thinking about experience design

Was piqued a series of posts on David Armano’s blog, Logic + Emotion, yesterday.
Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that it was, in fact, possible to override the political and economical to design every aspect of human experience, end-to-end, for a given business, either a service or product. From the business side, [...]

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12 Jun 2007 1024H

We’re hiring. A lot, in fact.

Shameless plug for the company.
If you are a user experience professional or information architect in or around Boston, Cleveland, and Chicagoland and are looking for a great place to work, I’d recommend you link up with us at Brulant. Here’s a job description for the UX and IA roles. It’s a fast moving firm [...]

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12 Jun 2007 0514H

Hands-free crutch

Saw this yesterday on CityTV’s Breakfast Television morning show. It’s pretty innovative, designed in Canada, and makes you wonder why someone didn’t think of it before, when you consider that the crutch is how old? The problem is that when you use crutches you can’t do a lot of other things with your hands since [...]

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12 Jun 2007 0508H

McDonalds using moms in participatory design

Who needs personas when you can engage the real people in participatory design. Plus, they become advocates for the product. Of course, six moms at a time is slow going.
Two more links about this, at the Trib and USA Today. Now the spin on it doesn’t seem to be really per se participatory design [...]

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12 Jun 2007 0505H

Camino 1.5, Safari for Windows, OS X Leopard

and features RSS support among a long list of fixes and enhancements. Can’t believe I missed it last week. It’s Awesome. I wonder if Sage integrates with it.
Why do we use Camino. It’s faster than anything else on the Mac platform and stays out of the way of the browsing experience, generally.
Speaking of [...]

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05 Jun 2007 2148H

re: New MacBook Pros

Okay, never mind the speed bump. Faster computers = nice, sure, but the front side bus is now 800MHz, which is encouraging, and the system can address all 4GB of RAM if it’s installed, unlike before. Never really needed all the RAM in my system anyway, but, good to know. They come standard with 2GB/667 [...]

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05 Jun 2007 2032H

Consulting Story #763

I have a car. Actually I drove from Chicago, which took 4 1/2 hours. It’s about the same if I took a plane and it got delayed, which my flights have been doing a lot lately. It’s also the same if you fly in and get a car, because then you gotta drive to town [...]

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