If you’re not a Fast Company subscriber or reader, you should be. There’s always some good content. It’s not always the first to report, but it does provide a great breadth and depth of topics, particularly around design and technology. As a designer and techno-geek, Fast Company recently published a couple articles on “killer” Microsoft [...]

Recently, a student of my Interaction Design course at DePaul University asked about “ribbon” design in user interfaces. For you Microsoft Office users, you know what I mean – the new navigational element of the 2007 version. Anyway, she’s working on a fairly complex Windows-based application that is “used to drive specialized medical equipment that [...]

Last week I had the honor of presenting a “selling the value of user-centered deisgn” workshop to a very important financial and economic regulating body. As part of the workshop I developed this presentation. The presentation covers: Why is user-centered design important? How do I communicate the value of user-centered design? Understanding how to prove, [...]

I recently interviewed someone that used Wordle for the cover of their portfolio. Intrigued, I thought I would check it out for myself. (Excuse me if I’m behind the times on this one.) From Wordle’s website… Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to [...]

I have to admit, it’s pretty damn cool to see the impact of your work in action. Especially the comments, opinions and feedback from people you don’t even know. Case in point – our manifest team continues to discover more content posted to the great Interweb about the Microsoft Surface Table application we built for [...]