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Good Morning, Everyone

Welcome to a new and simple eleganthack design, finally live. The old eleganthack I’m moved to archives.eleganthack.com, and this lifestream blog I made my main interface. I kept thinking I’d do some fine tuning then starting writing here again. Six months later I realize the important thing is not to fuss around with it endlessly, but to get to writing again (and fussing endlessly will come when I’m procrastinating on writing.) You will have to resubscribe to the RSS, sorry.

So you’ve been wondering, what have you been up to, wodtke? Well, reading a lot about architecture, which is a passion I pickup after I wrote the chapter on social for my book. The result (so far) has been some insights on how the classic understanding of space can be applied online. I’ve presented this at IDEA, and I hope to further develop and extend these ideas at Interactions 10 Here are the slides from IDEA.

a makeover for eleganthack

My blog gets varying levels of love. Sometimes I’m posting all the time, sometimes a month or two […]

My new baby.

My new baby., originally uploaded by Box and Arrow.

travels with amelie

IMG_2302, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. Now it Italy, but had a brief stop for a birthday […]

Context is King!

Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com Except rules are tricky things with an operation like Flickr’s. The […]

Size Matters

early draft of a section from 2nd edition of blueprints We all would like to think there was […]

Researching Search

more outtakes from the 2nd edition of Blueprints, most likely destined for the long anticipated yet never begun […]

First day of preschool!

First day of preschool!, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. And at the end of her first week, […]

Calling SV IA’s…

Check out the PARC Forum on September 18, 2008 Residual Categories: Silence, Absence and Being an Other Residual […]

Designers and Doctors

Several years back, John Zapolski urged all the members of my design team to read Atul Gawnde’s essay […]

Anyone want to help me write a book?

First draft of a chapter for the second edition… love to get some help as I warm up.

Background: we’re trying to tighten up the book so it reads more quickly and can be accessible to more people. In doing so, we tried to collapse two chapters into one. I’m wondering if the section “those people” should just be axed. Yes, it’s useful information but is it really relevant to information architecture in particular and is it really necessary in this era in which there are so many good books on user research?

Please forgive dreadful formating madness… I exported pretty directly from Word, and we all know how well that works. But I’d rather spend time writing than formatting.

One thing after another

My daughter was born a week after my grandfather’s second wife died. He said to me on the […]

Love

IMG_1792, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. Sometimes your heart isn’ t big enough to hold that much […]