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Obama Futurama

Aug 29, 2008

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in Business, History, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Barack Obama’s speech was tremendous. He was strong, forceful, and honest while fighting tooth and nail for most of the fundamentally liberal ideals that I share — arguing them openly instead of filtering or even hiding them as most liberal Democratic candidates have in the past. And in the several places where he strayed from…

The Wisdom of Don Draper

Aug 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Upon a friend’s recommendation, a couple of weeks ago I started following don_draper on Twitter. More precisely, I’m following whoever is Twittering and playing the role of Don Draper, the main character and fictional creative director of a 1960’s Madison Avenue advertising agency on AMC’s critically-acclaimed series Mad Men, now in its second season. What’s…

UX of a Salesman

Aug 7, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Technology, User Experience Design

Running shoes must be usable, but it’s their seductive design that really sells the product. I’ll be delivering a new presentation concept about “merchandising” at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in New York this September 18th (and again two weeks later in Amsterdam at Euro IA). Not about merchandising as in the design of retail…

Quantity vs. Quality in a Design Process

Jun 17, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Technology, User Experience Design, Work

The NeXT Cube and the Apple Mac Cube. Are they iterations? Discussing his upcoming biography of Steve Jobs, author Leander Kahney describes Apple’s prototyping process: It’s a process where they discover the product through constantly creating new iterations. A lot of companies will do six or seven prototypes of a product because each one takes…

OMMA Nom Nom Nom

Jun 17, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, graphpaper.com, NYC, Personal, User Experience Design, Work

I am going to be speaking today, June 17th, at the OMMA Publish conference here in New York City, on a panel entitled “Optimizing for Performance: Adding Value to Your Site”. OMMA is focused on online media marketing and advertising, publishing several trade magazines and sponsoring several conferences each year in these areas. My panel…

Flickr Usr

May 26, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

I’ve always loved Flickr, but I’ve never had the time to really use it as diligently as many of my friends apparently do. The Flickr Uploadr software always seemed a little wonky to me, and I didn’t savor the idea of sorting my photos locally in folders or in iPhoto and then having to repeat…

The Peculiar 20th Century

Mar 2, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Books, Business, Design, History, Music, Personal, Reviews, Science, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

Fish Magic, 1925, Paul Klee It is said that a fish, even a really smart one, cannot really grasp the meaning of the concept “wet” because it is the only condition they know. There is no “dry” to compare it to. Humans, too, have a tendency to imagine that the way things are today is…

R.I.P.: Owning Music (1880-2008)

Feb 6, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Last.fm‘s announcement that they will be allowing their users to listen to full-length versions of millions of music tracks is one of the final nails in the coffin of the traditional recorded-music industry. Owning music is dead. The new business model for making money in the music industry is simple: Design a better music distribution…

Doing Things vs. Getting Things Done

Jan 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Language, Personal, Reviews, Storytelling

A quick thought for this fine Friday: Something about the term “Getting Things Done” always bugged me. Now I know what it is. It’s the passive voice. Instead of the indirect phrasing using the verb “to get”, maybe we really should simply say “Doing Things“. GTD isn’t about getting other people to do things —…

Design Research is a Design Process

Jan 24, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, Science, User Experience Design, Web, Work

I have a tendency to be extremely skeptical about user research in the design process. This is mostly because so much of it is, IMHO, (a) fundamentally bad (e.g., employing sloppy research methods or hamfisted statistical analyses), (b) flatly dishonest (e.g., dressing unscientific research in pseudo-scientific drag in order to justify a desired result), and…

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