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What, me worry?

Redesigning American Business shows why outsourcing shouldn’t scare designers…. “Designers are teaching CEOs and managers how to innovate. […]

slides back

Thanks for your patience. The slides are back up. This is the latest version, with a bunch of […]

the future

All watched over by machines of loving grace is Adam Greenfield’s brilliant take on the future of our profession, […]

compete

According to Michael Porter, there are essentially two ways to compete: cost and differentiation. A Dry Cleaning Story […]

small is beautiful

Not small multiples, but rather multiple small… Bullet Madness is a collection of teensy bullets, arrows, icons and […]

Competing with design

Like most folks, I get envelopes full of coupons all the time. So far, the only ones I […]

Further Hotel Tales

In DC, I stayed at the Hotel Monaco. The stodgy exterior belies a hip interior. It’s another of […]

customer service

At the Hotel Lucia, one can order a pillow to one’s liking. Let me repeat you can order […]

Death to wireframes part 12

Nate has posted our natek: Web Visions Presentation, which makes a simple proposal to make wireframes more meaningful […]

Defining moments

I’m doing a lot of defining these days, between widgetopia and a project I’m working. This defintion of […]

Remember this

7 Things to Know about Building a User Experience Team is a succinct checklist of criteria to keep […]

I juiced

I juiced with the Philippe Starck Juicer, and it made me sad. Juice flies everywhere. The item is […]

you go, IDEO!

BW Online | May 17, 2004 | The Power Of Design After just seven weeks with IDEO, Kaiser […]

free advice

After joining Yahoo, I have taken up many of the services, including calendar, mail, movies, etc. One thing […]

IA, ID, GWB and WSJ

A recent article on document design in the WSJ shakily raised the question: Is a poorly designed memo […]

the latest…

Just in time delivery comes to knowledge management is a tight little article that I have referenced many […]

search this!

from California legislator moves to block Gmail – News – ZDNet “A California state senator said Monday she […]

Plaxo this!

In Joi: Opting out of Plaxo Jay explains why he’ll never use Plaxo, and Stacy of Plaxo explains […]

and then?

I’m catching up on blogs. I suddenly wondered what my world view would be if I read nothing […]

for teachers

I was just thinking that the netflix queue is a great design problem for any design class. Queue […]

dream projects

I have a little list of websites I dream about fixing. The top two are: 1. Netflix: Everything […]

notable

radio vox populi: live from the commons is notable both for its crisp infographic, tasty design, as well […]

Geek fight!

from Risks of Quantitative Studies “Number fetishism leads usability studies astray by focusing on statistical analyses that are […]