If you read this article you’ll be a better designer/developer/producer because it’s going to be a swift kick to your groin. There’s a reason why 99% of all of the shit out there fails. It’s because somewhere in the design process common sense gets thrown out the window. I know you’re really good at engineering [...]

Imagine for a moment that surfing the web is like a string. It spans a great distance into the horizon in front of you and behind. Now imagine that every time you visit a website a knot forms on the string. Sometimes these sites only hold your interest for a moment and other times you [...]

Human’s have an uncanny ability. Drawing information in we interpret our observations. Not only do we observe but we compartmentalize. This is in a sense what makes us Human. Compartmentalization leads to comprehension and you have compounded logic. There is a chair in the room, there is a banana tied to a string on the [...]

There’s an elephant in the room. I’m going to call it out, we have wicked problems in the interaction design field. A discipline that was birthed to cultivate innovation in user experience is stuck in it’s post modern ways. Want to fix it? Stop using esoteric buzz words and designing with hot keyed boxes and [...]

I am officially and indefinitely boycotting the iPhone SDK. Our application the Cool O’Meter 3000 was denied live status in the Apple App store. In essence they said that we made an application that was too simple to warrant worthiness to the droves of iPhone and iPod users. The first thing that probably comes to [...]

I think you’ve got it right. Life is fleeting and we need to take as many pictures of it as possible. The world is your moving sidewalk and every two feet is another opportunity. When traveling with my father he’s always snapping a picture or pulling out the video camera to capture a series of [...]

I teach a class. On paper I teach about what it takes to become famous on the internet. But in actuality I try to inspire my students to want more. Examples in class aren’t always youtube videos, though sometimes they are, usually I show them works by other students or people making it big (read, [...]

I’m forever fascinated with people. It’s no surprise that I went into a field having to do with the study of them. For those following along at home, if you guessed that I’m a psychologist please deduct two points now. I don’t deal with people directly or with their inherent problems per say. What I [...]