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Lou Kahn: Architects Not Designers
As quoted in Brownlee and De Long, Louis I Kahn, 177. I think architects should be composers and not designers. They should be composers of elements. The elements are things that are entities in themselves”
User Experience Design and Information Architecture – Centered and Bounded Sets
The centered set approach is like gathering cats rather than herding cattle. The center is the pail of milk that draws the cats. This morning I finally checked Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence off of my reading list. I consumed … Continue reading
Logo Studies for The Understanding Group
Note, this post has moved to TUG’s blog: MakingThingsBe.Gd.
Giving A Talk at Lansing IxDA Chapter Kickoff
Update: Proud to announce that Michigan’s own Dan Klyn (@danklyn) will be our new guest speaker Sept 16. Don’t miss it! http://bit.ly/bZLJqGless than a minute ago via Tweetie for MacIxDA LansingIxDALansing
Lovely Quote from Dan Saffer’s Twitter
A beautiful design always contains some unexpected combination that shocks us with its appropriateness. W. Brian Arthurless than a minute ago via Tweetie for MacDan Safferodannyboy
I’m Running For A Seat On The IA Institute Board
Here is my position statement. If you’re a member of the IAI you should have received your ballot via email last night or this morning. ======= Position Statement: IA and IAI Could Be Much Muchier I’ve spent the first third … Continue reading
Two Recent Publications, And An Upcoming Panel
A few weeks ago I was honored by a request from beloved former colleagues at Q LTD to write something for their newsletter and blog – the piece I wrote is called Wildly Appropriate and it contains the story of … Continue reading
Ignite Your UX Sales Pitch (from IUE2010)
Due to some choreographical issues, I was unable to attend the “Ignite Your UX Sales Pitch” session at IUE2010. The event organizers were very kind to show my slides in my absence – here they are in a PDF format … Continue reading
Closing Keynote at IUE2010: The Nature of Information Architecture
Thank-you to everyone who stuck around for the closing keynote at Internet User Experience 2010 – it was an honor and real pleasure to share some of the work that I’ve been doing over the past year to such a … Continue reading
This Year
and then Kathy showed up and we hung out trading swigs from a bottle all bitter and clean locking eyes holding hands twin high maintenance machines