Jack Moffett
About: With a BFA in Graphic Design from WVU and a Masters in Interaction Design from CMU, I have been designing web, desktop, and mobile applications for about 10 years. I've worked in both academics and industry and teach on the side. As the only interaction designer at my company, I'm one of those designers that must cover the gamut from initial user research through to implementation and testing. My clients have included DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson, Shell, Eaton, Lockheed Martin, and many organizations within the U.S. military.
Discussions
CMU Meet-up
--It's no surprise that there are quite a few attendees with Carnegie Mellon connections—both alumni and current students. I know I would like to mee...
Blog Posts
Updater Hater
--Adobe Updater, the utility Adobe software uses to check for updates, runs once a week. It seems to run after I have launched an Adobe application. ...
Choking Hazard
--I found this on the back of a small item one of my daughters had left on the floor. Now, that’s great advertising!
Senz
--If you’ve been following DesignAday for awhile, you know I’m a fan of any designer who grabs one of the everyday objects we take for granted and sh...
Interaction ’09 Program
--The program for Interaction ’09 was posted Monday. I’m sorry to say that I’m not on it, but given the fact that they had 160 submissions for 28 slo...
Blog of the Week: Engage!
--David Malouf’s blog, Engage!, was one of the first design-related blogs I started reading on a regular basis. Of course, he was David Heller at the...
Stalled
--Public restrooms can be an interesting design space. Matters of privacy, crowd control, cleanliness, accessibility, maintainability, and security m...
What a Picture is Worth
--I was at my daughters’ school this evening for an open house. While walking through the halls, I noticed this display. If I were John McCain, and ...
Blog of the Week: Information Aesthetics
--I’m teaching Information Design and Visualization again this semester—this time to seniors. They are working through a series of data visualization...
Remote
--I haven’t yet purchased all that many applications for my iPhone. There are a few in particular that I want to get, but I haven’t taken the time to...
Information Junky
--A question about information management was posed to the IxDA list today. The poster wanted to know how people handle all of the information they c...
Back to Basics: Read-Only
--One of the things I always have to point out in software that I’ve been asked to take a look at is the use of disabled fields for the display of “r...
I Want My AppleTV!
--I picked up an AppleTV soon after they were released, and I have been extremely pleased with it. Apparently, it is not selling in huge numbers, as ...
A Really Cool Device
--My wife usually turns on The Today Show in the mornings. I noticed that their political analyst, Chuck Todd, is using Microsoft’s Surface to presen...
Adobe Creative Suite 4
--I had high hopes for Adobe’s presentation of CS4 this morning. They were really playing it up, and even stated at the start that this is their bigg...
Designer’s Toolbelt: CopyPaste Pro
--I’ve tried a couple of clipboard utilities in the past, but I finally found one that works in a way that I find useful. CopyPaste Pro from Script S...
Opposites Counteract
--The Verizon Fios on-screen guide has channel numbers running from top to bottom—that is, low at top to high at bottom. So, you scroll down, using t...
Blog of the Week: 90 Mobiles in 90 Days
--91 days ago, Rachel Hinman of Adaptive Path set out on an endeavor she referred to as “creative recovery”. After working for eight months on concep...
Back to Basics: Previous & Next
--The Romantic languages read from left to right and from top to bottom. This directional flow of information is ingrained within us from early child...
Dude, you froze over Hell!
--I always figured it would be a cold day in Hell when I was caught writing about Dell as an example of good design. Blink. Blink. Yep, that sentence...
In the Details: Half Moon
--The iPhone indicates podcasts that have not been played by placing a blue dot to the left of the title. This is consistent across iTunes and the Ap...
Setting the Table
--Jessica Enders of Formulate Information Design has an article on A List Apart titled Zebra Striping: More Data for the Case. This is a follow-up to...
I’m a Pusher Man
--When Steve Jobs announced the new push features for iPhone 2.0, I thought, “That will make a lot of people happy, but it really won’t affect my usa...
Undefined
--I was on Adobe’s site today looking to see if they offer a competitive upgrade from QuarkXpress to InDesign and saw a link for the Upgrade Tool. I ...
Undefined UI
--Undefined UI
Pump Stumper, Part II
--Way back in January, my buddy Jeff related a story to me about a very poorly designed gas pump user interface experience. Part of that story involv...
There’s the enter button!
--There’s the enter button!
Back to Basics: Right-Click Menus
--Also referred to as “contextual menus”, the right-click menu is a quick method for accessing actions that may be performed on specific objects on t...
The Devil is in the Asterisk*
--The photo below is the top of two single-serve containers of Hunt’s Lemon Meringue Pie flavored pudding. It’s hard to make out, due to the creases ...
Made with real milk, except when it’s not.
--Made with real milk, except when it’s not.
In the Details: Saving Space
--Apple has obviously made screen real estate a priority in the design of the iPhone user interface. An apt example of this is the newly added search...
Blog of the Week: Kick It
--Dan Saffer has made quite a name for himself over the past few years. He graduated from my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, with a masters d...
Table Redesign
--Here’s a table that Wes Casto designed in my class on Information Design and Visualization last Fall. He started with two existing, separate tables...
Table Design by Wes Casto
--Table Design by Wes Casto
Ubiquity
--Aza Raskin announced a new experiment he has been working on at Mozilla Labs called Ubiquity. The problem is one of those that is so obvious, you a...
Postpone No
--I’ve asked the developers I work with to postpone no. There is one developer I work with that, upon seeing a sketch for a design I’m working on, wi...
Missed Opportunity: Webplaces
--During my second year of grad school, back in 1998, I proposed a spatial representation of websites to evolve the web. I even went so far as submit...
Life Beyond Tree Widgets
--It took me long enough. I had a feeling I’d be waiting until the last minute. The only reason I haven’t waited until the weekend is because I will ...
Back to Basics: Disable or Hide?
--Developers often ask me whether a function should be hidden when not available, or merely disabled. I gave them the following two rules in my UI De...
Generation mY
--I’m old enough to remember life before VCRs. If a TV show was going to be on when you weren’t home, tough. You made a point to be home on a certain...
In a Past Life
--I was involved in a discussion this afternoon about my past work experience when it occurred to me that there has been a fundamental change in my p...
Back to Basics: Differences
--The difference between user interface designers and software engineers basically comes down to priorities. We each spend time focusing on different...
Show & Tell
--Tonight was the first class of the semester. This is my fourth year teaching at WVU. While in the past I’ve been teaching graduate-level courses, t...
Cup of Fries
--Here’s an example of user-centered packaging design. Burger King’s french fry containers are specifically designed to sit within a car’s cup holder...
Cup of Fries
--Cup of Fries
Munch Munch Munch
--Obviously, Chuck E Cheese doesn’t sell pizza. They sell an experience for kids that includes pizza. And while their pizza is underwhelming, the exp...
It CAN be Improved
--I don’t typically have any use for spray paint. However, last week’s vacation bible school decorating found me emptying several cans. Let me tell y...
Yes
--My good friend Jeff, who shared his encounter with a poor gas pump UI design some months ago, sent me a photo he nabbed with his iPhone during chec...
Excuse me, where is the “yes” button?
--Excuse me, where is the “yes” button?
Open it with Adobe
--To those of us in the design community, Adobe is well known as the producer of software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, and the...
Bringing Experience Design and Sustainability to Vacation Bible School
--It is very satisfying to bring my professional skills into other important aspects of my life. In the past week, I’ve been helping prepare for Vaca...
Wordle
--Wordle is a fun little web application that builds word clouds. With a number of font, color, and layout options, you can get some really nice resu...
Wordle
--Wordle
In Comparison: Email Search
--We are adding a search feature to one of our newer products, and I was consulted today on its design. Someone had said, “It should work like Outloo...
In the Details: Utility Knife
--I recently purchased a new utility knife to replace the previous one, which I had lost some months back. After perusing the selection at my local h...
T-Fault
--My wife was working on the french fries while I manned the grill. We’ve been using a T-Fal deep fryer for about ten years. I happened to walk throu...
I.D. 2008 Winners
--I.D. has announced the winners of their 2008 Annual Design Review. I was expecting to find a number of inspiring designs, and there were several, b...
UI Design First Aid
--For a variety of reasons, not least of which being that I am the sole interaction designer, there are situations in which I am inaccessible to the ...
Dumbest Survey EVAR
--Zoom Panel is a web-based, consumer survey company. Once signed up, you receive email invitations to take surveys online. You know, through a web b...
Dumbest Survey EVAR
--Dumbest Survey EVAR
UI Gardener
--Have you ever weeded an overgrown flower bed? I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that I had to do so this weekend. I’ve been away so much this summer th...
Boom Blox
--My kids received birthday presents from some of their aunts and uncles over the holiday weekend, one of which was Boom Blox, a game for the Wii. I’...
Blog of the Week: Architectures of Control
--Dan Lockton is working towards a Ph.D. at Brunel University on the topic of Design for Sustainable Behavior. His blog is full of interesting exampl...
Pole Position
--Pole Position
In the Details: Dimensions
--Not long ago I gave my first impressions of the new version of Delicious Library. I was entering a couple of newly purchased books and noticed some...
JUGgernaut
--A New York Times article caused a bit of a stir in the design community this week. In the recent past, success stories like Target’s ClearRx pill b...
Googlephrasing
--Mark Hurst, over on Good Experience, introduced Googlephrasing back in 2004. Prompted by a more recent post, I Googled “Design is defined as”. Th...
Mowing Children
--There is something about the illustrations on warning labels that I find to be humorous. When you take a very serious mishap in which people tragic...
Mowing Children
--Mowing Children
sEating
--My pastor told an amusing story at the beginning of his sermon Sunday. He and his wife were at a wedding reception. He picked up the cards with the...
They Can’t Handle It
--My father-in-law took us to his favorite little ice cream stand. While I was eating my butter pecan cone, I observed several patrons disposing of t...
Trash Can Handle
--Trash Can Handle
Arrows
--Randy Pausch repeatedly told us in class that you can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. Showing superhuman strength, resolve, ...
Speaking of old...
--The majority of the objects at my vacation spot, both natural and man-made, are far older than I am. As we were making dinner Saturday evening (the...
Alcoa Wrap
--Alcoa Wrap
Old-Time Interaction Design
--The General Electric clock in the photo below belonged to my Great-Grandpa, Hartzel Smith. It used to hang in his kitchen. It now hangs in the kitc...
Old-Time Interaction Design
--Old-Time Interaction Design
In the Details: D
--I have another small qualm with my Mazda5. The current position of the gear shift is indicated by a large, lit, digital letter on the dashboard. So...
Missed Opportunity: MMTRG
--A few weeks back I was in the shower (where all the best ideas come from), and I was thinking about the iPhone 3G. Specifically, I was thinking abo...
My Worthless Skills
--I won’t be posting next week. I’m off for another week in the woods of West Virginia. Before I leave, I’m installing the iPhone 2.0 update and gett...
Full Service?
--I had an interesting experience on my trip to Cape May the weekend before last. One of the girls needed a pit-stop, and having seen the gas prices,...
WALL•E
--I took my girls to see WALL•E yesterday. The movie lives up to Pixar’s reputation. I quite enjoyed it. It’s amazing the amount of expression—of dee...
In the Details: Drag & Drop
--UI design gets tricky when a single action can potentially invoke many functions. Take dragging, for instance. If I depress my mouse button and the...
Animator vs. Animation
--I just enjoyed a clever animation by Alan Becker and want to share it. Alan is an artist who posts his work on deviantART. If you enjoy the origina...
User Oriented Design?
--For over ten years, I’ve been claiming that I practice User-Centered Design (UCD). To me, this has meant that my process includes learning about th...
The Gauntlet Has Been Thrown
--Ever since February, I’ve had a ghost task on my to-do list. Ghost tasks are the ones that haven’t actually been written down and prioritized, but ...
Separation Anxiety
--On the return trip from my cousin’s wedding this past weekend, we took the ferry from Cape May, NJ to Delaware. While we roamed the ship a good bit...
Separation Anxiety
--Separation Anxiety
Roughing It?
--This is the first time I have utilized the internet from inside a tent. Actually, that’s not quite true-I sent three email messages prior to writin...
Perfect Fit
--Last night saw our third, and best attended, programmed event for the local Pittsburgh chapter of IxDA. We were hosted by Fit Associates in their S...
Timeline
--There are a lot of software applications out there for creating visual artifacts from slideshows to spreadsheets, any number of different types of ...
A Plug for Green Plug
--There is a box in my basement of old computer peripherals and other consumer electronics. Each device is packed with its own DC power supply, fitti...
Designer’s Toolbelt: Versions
--As an Interaction Designer, I work very closely with software engineers. To that end, I must integrate my own processes and tools with theirs. In t...
Blog of the Week: Design for Service
--Service Design is one of the more recent sub-divisions of design to be recognized. It has only been considered a design discipline since 1991, and ...
iPhone Omissions
--I’m compelled to make a few corrections. In my musings about the iPhone 3G announcements, I made some incorrect statements. Now that I’ve had time ...
ATMpossible
--After swiping my card in an ATM yesterday, I pressed the button beside the “Fast Cash $50” option. It threw up a dialog that said, “Not a multiple ...
iPhone 3G
--It’s difficult for Apple to keep secrets these days. Nobody was surprised by yesterday’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G. GPS was rumored, althou...
The Problem with Patents
--The news came out last Thursday that iRise has filed a patent infringement suit against Axure. For those of you that don’t know, Axure sells a soft...
Blog of the Week: Putting People First
--If I were to pick a single source for news about usability, experience, service, sustainability, and innovation—in fact, most aspects of user-cente...
Gary’s on Crackow
--I just saw what has to be the least informed commentary on Apple’s iPhone to date. Gary Krakow, senior technology correspondent for TheStreet.com, ...
What We Do Best, Part II
--Responses to my question have continued trickling in over the past week. I find interesting the number of responses that are not design-specific.As...
Eating Utensile Strength
--I attended our annual church picnic on Sunday. I had heard that one of our members ordered eating utensils made out of starch. While I appreciated ...
Having a Fit
--I had intended to give my wife a Wii Fit for her birthday last Wednesday, but was not able to acquire one in time. Like the Wii itself, FIt is in h...
Blog of the Week: inspireUX
--Every few days, Catriona Cornett posts a quote on inspireUX. Each one is neatly laid out as a small card. As the instructions on the blog say, “ins...
Designer’s Toolbelt: Firebug
--Firebug is a free, open source add-on for Firefox, and nobody who does web work should be without it. Regardless of which tools you use for generat...
Delicious GUI
--Delicious Monster has finally released version 2 of Delicious Library, an application for cataloging books, movies, music, games, and practically a...
Hang it all!
--An ironing board is a designed object. It is shaped to a specific purpose. It has a broad end and a narrow end. It has rounded corners. It is a fla...
Hang it all!
--Hang it all!
What We Do Best
--Last Thursday, I gave my quick answer to the question “What do you do best?” On Friday, I posed the question to the IxDA list. Here are the answers...
Tangible Interaction Design
--I just read today the announcement for a new masters program at CMU: Masters of Tangible Interaction Design. So what, you may ask, is Tangible Inte...
What I Do Best
--I was recently asked what I do best. Please don’t think I’m a braggart when I say that it was a difficult question to answer. With my broad design ...
Critique: Adobe Mobile Gallery
--Of all companies, I would expect Adobe to have a decent Flash-based website. The Adobe Mobile Gallery is an excellent example of gratuitous use of ...
KFC
--The legacy of Colonel Sanders has, in recent years, been heavily branded as KFC, rather than the verbose Kentucky Fried Chicken—so much so that I n...
D&AD Awards
--The winners of the D&AD awards were announced last week. It was a record-breaking year with six Black Pencils awarded. A very prestigious award, th...
Blog of the Week: The Prepared Mind
--Where have you gone Chris Gee? The Prepared Mind was the first blog I subscribed to an RSS feed for. Chris was an active blogger and provided good ...
Here I Come to Save the Day...
--I have always been a one-mouse-button man. I have had my reasons. I’ve never found multi-button mice comfortable. It always felt as if they were fo...
One Line of Service Design
--This post is a couple months late. I was tagged by Jeff Howard, author of the blog Design for Service, back in March, but I somehow missed it. I ju...
I’m a discount code!
--I mentioned a few days ago that I had contributed a “perspective” to Luke Wroblewski’s book. I just received my copy in the mail today. At 226 page...
CrayAngles
--About any restaurant we go to these days provides crayons and something for my kids to color on. We then repeatedly bend over to pick up the crayon...
CrayAngles
--CrayAngles
Blog of the Week: Icon-O-Cast
--There aren’t very many design-related podcasts out there. A select few are of consistently high quality. Lunar Design started Icon-O-Cast in June o...
In the Details: Button Hook
--All of the cars I’ve driven in the past have had pretty standard switches for the automatic windows. They are vertically-oriented, two-way switches...
Instant Winner
--The internet has improved a lot of things and created wonderful new experiences. Due to this success, it seems that everything now must have a web ...
Web Form Design
--Luke Wroblewski’s new book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, has just been published by Rosenfeld Media. This promises to be a very insightf...
Free Speech
--I was traveling this weekend to attend a cousin’s wedding. On the drive there, my car was damaged when a piece of metal pipe flew off of a flatbed ...
Blog of the Week: Brand New
--What do Ford, Starz, Discovery Channel, the Seattle Founders FC, Thomson Reuters, SanDisk, and Intuit all have in common? They’re all rebranding th...
Keyboard Tradeoffs
--For the past four and a half years, I’ve been using Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I love the flexibility provided by the cordless devices. ...
Upgrade
--Tonight, I’m saying goodbye to an old friend and welcoming a new member of the family. I purchased a new Mac Pro to replace my 4.5 year old Power M...
Sent from my iPhone
--Thus reads the default signature in Mail on the iPhone. Thus far, I have not made the effort to change it, nor have many others I know. Are we decl...
In the Details: Volume Control
--Another feature of my new Mazda5 that I really like is the automatic volume adjustment. The volume increases as the car speeds up and decreases as ...
Synchrosurprised
--Back in November, I wrote about Microsoft’s new Sync system, which is currently available in Ford vehicles. I was impressed when a reviewer reporte...
“Never tell me the odds.”
--Han Solo, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back How many times have I heard a respected celebrity claim that the only reason they did the t...
Roulette Vendor
--There’s an elaborate vending machine in the building at which I’m working this week. Rather than dropping cans or bottles down through a slot, the ...
Hit with the Ugly Sticker
--I was riding to lunch with a co-worker the other day and noticed that he had one of those paper floor mats that mechanics use while your car is in ...
Sorry Safari
--Now that the iPhone SDK has been released and third-party apps are on the way, nobody is claiming that web apps are the future of phone software. I...
Talking sMac
--I love my Mac… which makes me all the more sensitive to its faults. I often commend Apple for their attention to detail. Now I have a question. As...
DesignAyear
--It was exactly one year ago today that I began this little blog. I’m happy to report that I’m getting what I wanted out of it, although it is takin...
Blog of the Week: Adaptive Path
--I typically attempt to bring something new to the blogosphere on DesignAday, rather than simply pointing out posts on other blogs. I am, however, o...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
--Rachel Hinman made a very useful post to the Adaptive Path blog about a CHI presentation by Elaine Huang titled “Where do mobile phones go to die?”...
Narrative II
--Building on the Time Series, Tufte gives examples of a few distinct types of narrative visualizations. The illustrative example of the life cycle o...
Narrative Visualization by Andrew Carnill
--Narrative Visualization by Andrew Carnill
Narrative II Detail
--Narrative II Detail
Grate Expectations
--I’d never consider myself to be a great movie buff—I don’t see all that many movies. However, I do get really excited about a small number of movie...
In the Details: Cruise Control
--Seeing as how the new Mazda5 is my wife’s car, this weekend was the first time I had driven it for any significant distance—a couple hundred miles....
Blog of the Week: I Love Typography
--As an Interaction Designer who spends most of my time limited to the fonts that come standard with Windows XP (Let’s see, should I use Arial or Ver...
How often do you think this motion-sensing paper towel dispenser...
--How often do you think this motion-sensing paper towel dispenser gets set off by people entering and leaving the restroom?
Designer’s Toolbelt: xScope
--I recently became aware of a great little utility from The Iconfactory called xScope. It’s comprised of seven tools that can be toggled on or off a...
A Promising Vision
--Autodesk has posted a video showing the results of research into green building design through a process known as Building Information Modeling. Am...
Can’t Touch This
--On Friday, Engadget posted a video demonstrating a working prototype of a touchless remote control. An original concept video had appeared on YouTu...
Blog of the Week: Design View
--As regular readers have likely noticed, I’ve begun featuring design-related blogs in my Friday posts. I’m taking a slightly different tack with thi...
Missed Opportunity #7: Incremental Brake Lights
--Several years ago I was driving to work and brainstorming ideas for new automobile features that would improve the commuting experience. Some dealt...
In the Details: Speedometer
--The speedometer on the dash of my new Mazda5 is quite large, which makes sense, as it is typically the most important gauge, or at least the one th...
Mazda5 Speedometer
--Mazda5 Speedometer
rEject
--One of the products featured in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, which I wrote about last week, is the Eject Powerstrip. It’s innovation is ...
Lazy Validation
--The agency that handles my local taxes just made on-line filing available. I decided to take advantage of it Saturday. It was better than filling o...
Required Fields
--Required Fields
Blog of the Week: A Brief Message
--I spend entirely too much time reading blogs. It keeps me up late at night. It isn’t healthy, but they are so interesting—they make me think, and I...
Literarture
--I had been planning on posting about another interesting product design, but that will have to wait. I’ve just been overawed by the work of Brian D...
Brian Dettmer’s Book Art
--Brian Dettmer’s Book Art
Safari, So Good
--Apple released an update for Safari yesterday, bringing it to 3.1. While they have added a lot of advanced, HTML 5 features, I was most intrigued b...
Safari, So Good
--Apple released an update for Safari yesterday, bringing it to 3.1. While they have added a lot of advanced, HTML 5 features, I was most intrigued b...
Web Inspector: DOM
--Web Inspector: DOM
Web Inspector: Network
--Web Inspector: Network
Greenery
--The winners of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition held during the month of February have been announced. There are a lot of innovative ideas. I...
In the Details: Rain Sensor
--The evolution of auto design is relatively slow due to a number of factors. I don’t expect to find mind-blowing innovation in a new car, but I am t...
Blog of the Week: Logolog
--When I see a really clever logo, one that just nails it, I get a quick rush of adrenaline. Call it a design high. Denis Radenkovic’s Logolog is a g...
Blog of the Week: Logolog
--When I see a really clever logo, one that just nails it, I get a quick rush of adrenaline. Call it a design high. Denis Radenkovic’s Logolog is a g...
If Apples Could Talk
--Apple is famous for keeping its design process a secret. Interaction Designers regularly speculate about what goes on in Cupertino. It is remarkabl...
disSolution
--Iconocast, the podcast produced by Lunar Design, just published a presentation by Jeff Smith, Lunar’s CEO, and Nirmal Sethia, Director of the Cente...
Blast from the Past
--Based on an idea published by Robert Scoble, a wiki has been created to collect all of the skills that have become obsolete. Titled “Obsolete Skill...
You Can Never Leave
--To anyone who has been reading this blog regularly, it is no secret that I choose to use Macintosh computers. I use MS Windows as little as possibl...
Log Out Blocked
--Log Out Blocked
Another Ding in the Universe
--Apple has been getting a lot of press—most recently from Fortune’s Top 20 Most Admired Companies, in which Apple was ranked #1, and a few other art...
Interaction Design in the Wild
--Some Interaction Designers believe that Interaction Design is strictly about digital products: software, computers, phones, etc. I believe that Int...
Easy Open Tab
--Easy Open Tab
zoom zoom
--I wrote the other day about my disappointment with Chrysler’s new line of minivans. We had been impressed with the Toyota Sienna. Yesterday, we mad...
Holy Banner Ads, Batman!
--I typically don’t mind banner ads. Having been desensitized, I very easily ignore them. Occasionally, I have even seen banner ads that were clever....
Pitching Manure
--There was a discussion on the IxDA list last week about “de-skilling”, and someone posted this quote from author Robert Heinlein: A human being s...
Satisfraction
--ChangeWave released a report today on the trends in corporate smart phone purchases. It’s no surprise that RIM has the lion’s share with 73%. Palm’...
Morph
--Nokia has a video up on YouTube showing a futuristic concept device based on nanotechnologies. While the technology itself is quite cool, I appreci...
Morph
--Morph
Techsuck
--Time has been weighing on my thoughts lately. I never seem to have enough of it. I’m involved in so many activities, all of them rewarding, but I’m...
Choice Bits from Alan Cooper
--I don’t take a lot of notes. I did, however, make sure to write down anything that really made me think during the sessions at Interaction 08. Thes...
Driving a Living Room
--Being a relatively young adult, I have only owned three cars thus far: a Dodge Neon, a Chrysler PT Cruiser, and a Chrysler Voyager. The latter two ...
Luke Arm
--Dean Kamen is at it again. The inventor of the AutoSyringe, the first insulin pump, the all-terrain wheel chair, and most recently, the Segway has ...
Pseudo Tabs
--I’m in the market for a new car, looking to replace a Chrysler Voyager. I was checking out the Mazda5 on their site, and decided to use their “Buil...
Pseudo Tabs
--Pseudo Tabs
frAgile
--Interaction 08 saw quite a bit of debate around the role of design in an Agile development environment. Viewpoints ranged from Jeff White and Jim U...
Designer's Toolbelt: Thermo
--The most exciting thing I saw at Interaction 08 was a demo of Thermo, Adobe’s upcoming user interface prototyping tool. Narciso Jaramillo, a senior...
Design Delivers
--One of my co-workers told me the other day that he started out with the typical engineering mindset that it was most important to build a thing rig...
I'm a Designer
--On Sunday, as I was walking between the River Club and the Sheraton on my way to another session, I realized I was walking beside David Armano, aut...
Sharing the Pain
--Saturday night’s reception at Interaction 08 was hosted by Microsoft. Aside from the four Xboxs that were set up (one of which was running Rock Ban...
Things I Learned at Interaction 08
--Bamboo chairs are aesthetically pleasing, but they aren’t very comfortable. Appetizers are apparently best served in an assortment of glass dishes ...
Schwag Bag
--One of the most important questions to be answered about any conference is, of course, “What’s in the schwag bag?” Interaction 08 delivered in spad...
I'm a Selfish Social Butterfly
--I’m back from Interaction 08, and I’ll be posting about it for several days. This was an outstanding conference for a multitude of reasons. From a ...
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Hi Jack--I don't think we're ready to show newer versions of Thermo publicly yet, but I'd really be interested in your thoughts on what you've seen so far (and I can do the earlier demo for you if you haven't seen it).
Fixed. Thanks for the report.
Jack, I'm looking into it right now.
I saw your comment to Tony about trying to add items to your calendar. I am having the same problem trying to add things to my schedule. I have tried in Firefox and IE on Win XP and in Safari on Mac OS 10.5.1 and I also cannot get it to work.