Dear Ron: Any Advice for someone to escape the ‘telecommute’ career path?
I get this question quite frequently, so I thought it best to address it in its own post. Here is the question. Any advice for someone with tons of experience as a designer and developer, but stuck in...
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Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures
Updated on March 20. Todd Sieling was kind enough to put the Gesturcons into an Omnigraffe stencil, so those are included in the package as well. Thanks! Updated the link on March 4th. Thanks to all...
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Spray on liquid glass is flexible and will revolutionize the touch screen
I hope some of you are as excited as I am about this recent discovery. This is spray on liquid glass on a microfibre. They caused this fissure to demonstrate the properties. One of the biggest...
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OCGM is being presented at CHI 2010 and a prime example of OCGM
I know this is a bit late, because my co-author has already reported it, but I am very happy to announce that some ears have been listening. The CHI ’10 Workshop, “Natural User Interfaces: The prospect...
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Goodbye Microsoft (sorta) and Hello *********
Well it’s been a chaotic few weeks here in wonderful Microsoft Land. I have been getting tons of questions about some things I said at CHI. Apparently, unknown to me, a few people overheard me talking...
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(Reader question) Why do you dislike design patterns so much?
I’ve been so busy at Bloomberg I haven’t had the chance to write anything new, even though I have a few things cooking already. I got this email from a reader and asked her permission to post. Enjoy....
View ArticleFinished up at Bloomberg
So, I have finally finished up at Bloomberg. I’m very happy with everything that I have accomplished over there. What a lovely experience. The design team is top notch. I’m eager to see how the world...
View ArticleLinguistics, Noam Chomsky and what they have to do with OCGM, the new...
I have always been a huge fan of Noam Chomsky. He revolutionized linguistics with a way of explaining the building blocks of all language. He broke linguistics down to its basics in a way that it could...
View ArticleSelling your ideas and winning approval in presentations
All designers know how to improve their designs. They read, they study, and they attend workshops. Articulating failures and successes and the reasons for each is also a great way of pushing something...
View ArticleLearned behavior of looking in footers for important information
I saw this article on Forbes pop up yesterday, http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevecooper/2013/11/30/designing-a-website-for-2014/ I read a few of the called out comments and this one popped out....
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