Automated community moderation for reducing spam
Exploring ways to automate community moderation to reduce bad members and bad content like spam.
Concept is to baby as execution is to bathwater
Li Ming Hsing's crosswalk sign illustrates the gulf between concept and execution. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Design is your strategy
The Medici Group's Frans Johansson talks about strategy and iteration and changing the world for the 99% conference.
Agile+UX - remembering what a team's sposed to be
Many engineers would rather light fires and throw axes, but someone's got to do the dishes. UX is the dishes, and you've got to get it done.
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, 2nd ed.
If you’re looking for the best introduction to user experience, Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web is the book you should buy.
Internet piracy
His favorite philosopher is Yarrrchimedes. He only watches G-rated movies. No Arrr.
(More) tips for writing well
Sixteen tips for writing well when writing about design learned from the trenchant trenches at Boxes and Arrows.
UX Health Check presentation from Redux DC
Watch Livia Labate's quick, 20 minute introduction of the UX Health Check at Redux DC on video, or view the slides.
Agile + UX: (un)Synchronizing UX and development
User experience can help agile teams create better experiences, but agile isn't designed to manage user experience.
It's just "User Experience"
Richard Dalton has started an online petition for replacing IA and IxD with "user experience design". Go sign it.
IA Summit 2009 presentation slides
The Non-linear Creations blog has collected a list of IA Summit presentations that have posted their slides.
The User Experience Health Check, quantitative metrics for the qualitative user experience
At the 10th annual IA Summit, Livia Labate and I presented the UX Health Check, a method for evaluating any user experience.
Random collected thoughts on design
Random thoughts on design's basic constructs, the contexts in which these constructs live, and what out methods really help us do.
Things you need to do to write a book
Six lessons-learned while working on the second edition of Blueprints. Write your first book like it's your second.
The secret to writing well
Answer three questions for the audience, and you'll be on the road to writing well.
A 21st century primer
Four great pieces highlight what the 21st century will look like and how you can design it so.
Frank Gehry interview from TED
Nice interview from RSW from a TED conference a few years ago where Frank Gehry talks a little about why he does the work he does.
Presentation - Faceted seach best practices - Wed, Feb 4
I’ll be presenting with two others Wednesday, February 4, as part of the Taxonomy Community of Practice series of teleconferences.
EVENT: Steven Heller at the Museum of Fine Arts, Wed Jan 21
Steven Heller, the noted designer, author, and critic speaks Wednesday, January 21 at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Design Camp - Bryan/College Station - Sat, Jan 17
Design Camp, a bar camp for designers kicks off Saturday, January 17 in Bryan. It's free so head on up.