This is great: Guy Kawasaki opened up a BoutyUp fund so everyone could pitch in and get Dave Winer a new Diamond encrusted iPhone. Details here: http://www.bountyup.com/bounty/Buy+Dave+Winer+a+Jeweled+iPhone It was when I was doing a freelance gig, producing the online version of the 1996 Bank of America Annual Report (kindda ironic, as that’s where I work
It never ceases to amaze me, that the best experience we seem to come up with for feeding a computer, after multi-touch this-and-that and semantic wonderment, and peer2peer, socially syndicated gobble-d-gook, are text fields, radio buttons, check boxes and menus. My Dad used to say that he had an unparalleled skill at creating errors on
Woke up. Made coffee. Made breakfast for the kids. Touched base with the blogshere. Brainstormed a new product idea with Donna. Signed up for Last.fm. Signed up for medium, whatever that is. Signed up for some voice-to-blog thig Guy twittered about. Created a new amp/pedel cobo in Garage Band. Learned some new minor chord voicings
If you’ve ever struggled to make a decision … you’ve engaged in the design process, though you may not have even known it. In the next 5 chapters I’m goign to describe the 5 phases of design: Discovery, planning, design, execution, and follow-up.
My professional objective is to come up with the most amzing experiences imaginable. Imaginable. Think about that word for a minute. Imaginable. Not experiences we know how to build… Not even experiences we know. Just great experiences which will make people say “that was amazing! I want to do it again, and I’m going to
Listening to conversations between designers and developers is an endless source of amusement. Contributors and visionaries from both camps will always have expectations and frame questions from the view of their own professional specialty. It gets even better, when a programmer and a designer discuss working Agile methodologies, and gets even better when they have