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When You Assume…

August 5, 2010
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Recently, there was a post over at DiscoBlog on the Discover Magazine site that mentioned a study that claims that women who wax have better sex.  It reminded me how quickly we can be led astray by settling on the first assumption.  At first blush, one would assume that if you are a woman and [...]

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Eee-liminate the Negative?

June 17, 2010
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Master Marketer (or, so he tells us), Seth Godin, put a piece on his blog today about the downside of dwelling on criticism. I completely agree that you don’t want to spend the majority of your time stewing on harsh comments that undermine progress and your sense of self-worth. However, criticism does serve [...]

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Gray Powell = Red Herring?

June 6, 2010
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Is it just me, or has the rumor mill surrounding Monday’s WWDC keynote by Mr. Jobs been strangely quiet? Perhaps I’ve just grown accustomed to expectations being frapped to a foam in the days and weeks preceding the distortion of the reality field. But, this time it seems quiet… Too quiet.
When the [...]

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Prediction: Facebook will sell you back your privacy

May 26, 2010
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Facebook today altered their privacy settings to tame what they called “something of a Frankenstein monster” of a privacy control panel. Facebook’s claim is that the way new features had been added caused the number of privacy setting checkboxes to grow like weeds. That may be true.
However, Facebook also leaned on a phenomenon [...]

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Design Traceability

April 23, 2010
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Kids are notorious for asking “Why?”  Each answer you provide leads to another “why.”  Each exchange leads closer to some central truth.  With kids, that central truth usually ends up being, “Because I said so!”  To designers, business stakeholders are also notorious.  Not so much for asking why as they are for saying, “I think [...]

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Design Science

April 8, 2010
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My grandfather told me a story (perhaps apocryphal) of a final exam he took in a college Philosophy class. As he told it, the professor walked in, grabbed the chalk, and wrote “WHY?” in big letters on the board. He then sat down without saying a word and began waiting for the students [...]

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A Salesman in Thespian’s Clothing

March 14, 2010

This may just be me, but it seems like there’s a… I can’t tell if it’s insidious or clever… trend to make commercials appear similar to the shows during which they air. I noticed it first during an episode of “Lost.” I noticed it because my wife and I almost always [...]

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Touchable Holography: Just freakin' cool.

August 6, 2009
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Experience Design Part 1: Definition

May 15, 2009

I’ve been asked to present to the senior management of one of our clients the fundamentals of Experience Design, as well as some thoughts about how they could benefit from employing the tools and techniques of an XD methodology. As I put my XD hat back on and collect my thoughts, I thought I’d [...]

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