Victor

It’s odd how bad business people are at running meetings. I work with some of the premiere organizations in the world in many industries and you rarely ever see an agenda, goals for what needs to be decided, or even a leader to keep everything organized. It’s just streams of chaos, folks interrupting each other,…

I asked “what’s the most beautiful thing you’ve experienced today?” and etoile responded probably the most beautiful thing today was someone saying hi to me unexpectedly who hasn’t been talking to me in person. instant messenger, sure, but in person…… it’s a strange side effect of the ‘communication revolution’… communication is not just words, voiceless…

Would you take branding advice from a company called DareStep?

I was starting to soften my position on Nike today. With the Lance Armstrong sponsership I really wanted to like Nike again, because Armstrong’s achievements get me all chocked up. I haven’t bought any of Nike’s stuff since they were busted, twice, a few years ago for horrible labor conditions and salaries. But I figured…

I just washed my new VW Beetle for the first time yesterday. All those curves feel really good sliding a soaping sponge over. Yes, I know that sounds ridiculously materialistic or perverted, but it is a much different sensation of always moving in an arc rather than the boring flat surfaces of other cars.

New York bloomed on Friday. The temperature rose into the 80’s, and people came out in their shorts, skirts, and t-shirts. The parks were filled, and there was that feeling of spontaneous interaction moving from the offices, museums, and bookstores to the streets.

I recently answered an email that explained an oft-arising issue regarding design patterns… RE>so just what is the difference between a pattern and a guideline? The big windows [from A Timeless Way of Building – vl ] pattern sounds like guidence. Patterns do provide guidance, but they’re not guidelines, they’re much more. Watching how people…

John Thakara put his design challenge of pervasive computing online – an awesome talk from CHI 2000 that pretty much floored everyone, challenging us all examine what people really want and what is really the best thing to create before we start designing.

ABC Back on Time Warner Cable — for Now. It’s really sad that subscribers would get “irate” about such a loss, really very sad.

The absurdity of the Elian Gonzolas situation really needed someone to make fun of it.

Interval Research Shutting Down. Sad, they contributed some interesting research with a lot of potential. I shouldn’t be too surprised though. I heard a talk from a woman at CHI 2000 who left Interval to continue her research in haptic interfaces at a Canadian university (even though her research could have resulted in some paradigm-shifting…

Just posted a new paper: Introduction to Pattern Languages for Technology Interaction Design A “Razorfish Report,” intended to be a brief introduction to the topic for information architects and interface designers. (download a Microsoft Word file) Comments welcome.

At least we’re getting some variety in the weather this weekend, or Like 42 different names for snow…

We have some people here at work that are both incredibly intelligent and big gamers. I think I finally found a place they hang out: Gamasutra. I’m particularly interested in their take on Artificial Intelligence.

Just had a brilliant idea to start a group weblog for the information architects here at work. As we grow bigger and more geographically and organizationally distributed it becomes harder to exchange those little bits of information that make our jobs easier, higher quality, and more fun.