There is a well-known saying by Benjamin Franklin that states, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” If we take that lens to interaction design, we could say: In design nothing can be said to be certain, except eye candy and following new trends. The screens are changing, but the approach, sadly enough, is not....Read more

As we see more devices flood the market, we run into challenges with the variety of specifications and building user experiences for them. Here is my presentation at FITC Mobile, where I discuss the options. Total running time: 50 minutes, 10 seconds.

In this presentation, I walk the audience through the entire process of building a sample...

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I don’t know the back story for the Target stick-on handle, but as a customer I knew right away that the simple, attachable handles around my large items was a simple stoke of genius. Why had no one thought of this before? (Note: I am sure that Target wasn’t the first to do this, but it is where I first discovered it.)

I was, however, certain...

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Revolutions don't spring up every day, unless your talking about the Middle East and North Africa these days. Political revolutions aside, it’s interesting to look back throughout history at the series of major revolutions that have driven profound socioeconomic and cultural change over the last 500 years. The importance of each, their individual...

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Everyone is embarrassed by their baby pictures. The Web should be, too; check out this candid shot of a Geocities page from 15 years ago, when the browser was still in diapers and Ajax something you used to clean the shower. It's like a Greatest Hits collection of every bad gif, font and color scheme its designers could get their hands...

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