Noise Between Stations

Victor

  • BrainHeart

    •

    1 min read

    http://www.brainheartmagazine.com/ Leave it to the Swedes to come up with a smart, sensible tech magazine that makes sense in 2002, an accomplished forty-something to Wired’s sniveling adolescence. It’s published by a venture capital firm in a socialist country. Unfortunately not all of the articles are online, like Diane Coyle’s wonderfully honest and passionate “The Promise…

  • Italy as Color Palette

    •

    1 min read

    This poster is cheesy, still I think those old Italian houses make a wonderful color palette.

  • Basics

    •

    0 min read

  • Companies

    •

    0 min read

  • Interaction Metaphor

    •

    0 min read

  • Research at IDEO

    •

    1 min read

    Alex Wright reviews The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO IDEO blurs disciplinary boundaries wherever possible. That’s especially true when it comes to research, a cornerstone of IDEO’s design process. Many design firms still treat research as a stand-alone discipline practiced by Researchers (with a capital R). At IDEO, research is everyone’s job.

  • Tools vs. Agents

    •

    1 min read

    New Architect’s By Design: Wisdom from the Industry gives off lots of sparks, especially this one from Henry Lieberman, Agents Research Lead at MIT Media Lab: Applications and menu operations are like hammers and screwdrivers. Each is specialized to do a particular task. There’s nothing wrong with tools, but having a different tool for each…

  • 9.11 Tribute

    •

    1 min read

    I’m off on vacation. I’ll leave you with this 9.11 Tribute site IA’d be a former co-worker of mine. I like that you don’t have to navigate upon arrival, you can simply sit back and absorb it. Sometimes the web can be like film.

  • Philosophy

    •

    0 min read

  • Complexity and Cars

    •

    1 min read

    Go read Haughey and come back. No really, go ‘head. It’ll just take a sec. Back? Interesting, right? That Niklaus Wirth quote is how I feel about ideas like emergence. It’s interesting, but trying to replicate them in a product isn’t necessarily desirable design practice. It’s just, interesting. Regarding the BMW, I used to drive…

  • Isn’t That Quaint?

    •

    1 min read

    Over beers with Meghan in marketing: Meghan: Wow, you’re still with the fish? What do you do?Me: I don’t know if you’re familiar with all our titles…I do information architecture…Meghan: Oh my god, I remember all those ridiculous titles. What the hell were we thinking?

  • Alex Wright

    •

    1 min read

    Just discovered Alex Wright’s site, agwright.com, I didn’t realize he kept a blog.

  • Reaching Out

    •

    2 min read

    I recently worked with a Fortune 200 company spec’ing work on an application for an important group of internal users. Not too long ago they had converted some of their mainframe/green screen applications to browser-based apps, but not for the right reasons and without much success. No one inside the company has interface design expertise.…

  • Business of Design

    •

    0 min read

  • Leslie’s Back

    •

    1 min read

    Harpold.com