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I crush your head

todd — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:41:58 +0000

Who knew that saddam liked the Kids in the Hall?

Angered Hussein: ‘We will crush your heads’

OZ IA

todd — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:56:14 +0000

Looks like OzIA is shaping up to be a great conference. I wish I had the time to get down there. AP’s own Dan Saffer will be presenting on documentation (it’s really more interesting than it sounds) and giving a workshop on models of invention. We’ve had giant post-its with various models up in a hallway here for weeks sparking comments, counter-models, and even some heated discussion. There’s no telling what Dan’s going to put together but it should be enlightening. Of course, the other presenters are top notch as well. In particular, Eric Sheid always has something interesting to say and Donna Maurer is talking about Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.

A great discussion

todd — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:03:06 +0000

There’s been a lot of really great discussion around my last post to the AP blog. It’s exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when I put the post together in the first place. Make sure to check it out.

Time is running out?

todd — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:24:09 +0000

I walk past this this funeral home/chapel every morning and I always wonder if the clock was included in the sign as a public service or a symbolic gesture? Did they intend to make us contemplate our mortality? In what ways do the functions, features, and interactions we include in our designs communicate something far beyond “intended use”?

Unintended message

todd — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:55:56 +0000

This extra visual element is not only unnecessary but it has changed the message that they are trying to communicate. (Note: the place is called Butterfly, which I think is a much nicer kind of fly than the one they have ended up expressing.)

Layers of evidence

todd — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:52:37 +0000

The world is messy. Physical, social, and cultural material and activity overlap and intermingle constantly. How do researchers untangle the many layers of evidence to discover the discrete activities? How do we avoid losing something in the untangling?

Designing services for the sub-cellular

todd — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:49:31 +0000

Service design is tricky due to it’s need to span multiple contexts and “touch points”. It means having to account for and incorporate the social, the cultural, and the esthetic. What kinds of issues arise when one of the touch points is biological or genetic?

Nice advertising

todd — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:32:53 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more of this in the world?

New Job, New Home, New Everything?

todd — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:28:24 +0000

Apparently moving your family, your dog, and all of your stuff from one coast to the other takes a lot of time and seriously distracts you from blogging. Add to that the new job at Adaptive Path (which I have hit the ground running in) and we can see why it’s been about a month since my last post. Still, the last post is sort of appropriate since I am now in the SF Bay Area indefinitely and am happy to get together with anyone who may be interested.

Btw, I’m working on a very interesting project which has got me thinking about a lot of interesting blog posts. When I have a bit of time to breath, I’ll get those out ASAP.

In San Francisco

todd — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:19:38 +0000

I know this is late notice (it was late notice for me too) but I’ll be in SF all this next week. If anyone wants to get together for dinner, drinks, etc., drop me a line.