Design
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Sketchbook
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People
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Retail Design
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Her shop in Brooklyn is small but cozy. In a line around the walls are framed samples of her work with inlaid photos of the happy customers. The storefront blends in with the others on the block. The simple sign over the window reads, ‘Websites – Cheap.’ Patrons come in and chat about what they’d…
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Intertwingled Conversations
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Sharing a desk with Craig, I noticed it’s not unusual for him to be talking to one team member on his mobile while conducting multiple simultaneous IM sessions.
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New Book from James Lileks
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Just browsed through James Lileks‘s new book The Gallery of Regrettable Food and it’s hilarious. I read through the first 20 pages in the bookstore and laughed out loud at every one. And it’s chock full of that sumptuous 50’s pastel artwork.
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Interview with John Weir
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On designing iht.com: ‘I feel with sites like the IHT that radical change is often not good, purely for the sake of design. It is expensive, time consuming, requires change on the user’s part, disrupts the publishing work flow and opens up all the problems which come with software development.‘ @ Ordinary Life
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Interview with Adam Greenfield
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On Razorfish Tokyo: ‘I can tell you that the energy in the office is like night and day compared to my old gig. It’s nice to have actual projects moving forward for actual clients–high-profile ones, at that–and a management structure that understands and values information architecture.‘ On the best IA tool: ‘The tool that most…
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Map Navigation I’d Like to See
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Redesigning Yahoo Maps a bit.
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Process
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Writer’s Workshop Critique Format
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Looking for a Lighweight Way to Receive Peer Feedback In the past I attempted to improve the quality of information architecture work on the department level using heuristic analysis. It’s relatively easy to do, but in reality I found analysis sessions difficult to run because 1) the presentation and feedback process is time consuming due…
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Estimating Time for Design
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Words of wisdom from Shel:
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Usable, Useful, Desirable
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Apparently Liz Sanders of Sonic Rim coined the phraseRazorfish uses it often, as do othersIt sounds like an updated “Firmatas, Utilitas, Venustas” from the architectural historian VitruviasVitruvius on proportion I’ve been thinking that different kinds of artifacts have different ratios of usability, usefulness, and desirability. It’d be nice to express this at the beginning of…