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World IA Day – Finding Inspiration

February 14/2012

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When I met with the new Board of Directors for the Information Architecture Institute in Iceland last year, we worked hard in taking the first steps to rethink the IAI and how to keep all future endeavours not only centred on the needs of the community and advancement of the discipline, but also to involve more of the global community in everything we offered.

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The “Meta User Experience”

February 7/2012

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I do not intend on making this another Defining The Damn Thing post, there are plenty of those for all tastes in our industry. But I’d like to share my thoughts on a few points that I don’t see people discussing very often on UX. The Meta User Experience which is the User Experience of our User Experience projects…

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Think About Our Collective Future In Design

December 18/2011

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Connectivity is a given. And we all have an interest in working together. Because for all the wonders that technology can do, here’s what it can’t do. It cannot make our choices for us.

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An Espresso-Driven UX Approach

December 13/2011

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It was during a recent espresso-fueled debate around User Interface Design and UX as a multi-disciplined field that I got myself into trouble. In order to prove the effectiveness of UX tools to a bunch of skeptics, I agreed to create a concept iPad application. I had one week.

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DTDT: What Is Content? [And Who Cares?]

December 6/2011

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If you hang around the user experience world very long, you’ll learn that one of our obsessions is DTDT — no, not Do the Damn Thing — but Define the Damn Thing. Bless our hearts, it can seem that we love little more than endlessly debating the what of what we’re doing.

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