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Vote: The Machinery of Democracy

Nov 3, 2008

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in Behavior, Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

This is a website Behavior made for the Smithsonian’s American Museum of National History during the 2004 Presidential election campaign. It is the web companion for Vote: The Machinery of Democracy, an exhibition of artifacts from America’s long and colorful history of voting technologies. It was a fascinating physical exhibition. And I’m still proud of…

UI Complexity Increases Exponentially

Oct 29, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Images, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, User Experience Design, Web

Designing for One User (Bespoke User Interfaces)

Oct 26, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Behavior, Business, Design, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web, Work

What if someone paid you thousands of dollars to design a user interface or an application for just one person? Most design work is done for audiences: whether designing mass market products or niche objects of desire, we seldom have a single, real person in mind when we work. We think of audiences as groups…

Post-It Pollster

Oct 21, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, History, Images, Information Design, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

Twittering the Election

Oct 8, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Design, History, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Last night was the second U.S. Presidential Debate. One of my favorite new election-based interactive user experiences (in addition to CNN’s approval graphs and CNN’s magic wall) is Twitter’s election.twitter.com. Here’s a sample of what you would have seen during last night’s debate: TechCrunch reviewed this site last week. Here’s their review in its entirety:…

Design Thinking Out Of The Box

Oct 6, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Interface Design, The Future, User Experience Design, Web, Work

From “The Seduction of the Interface“ Saturday’s New York Times (in the Business section, of course) had an interesting article about “design thinking”. For starters, it included by far the clearest summary of what design thinking is that I’ve ever read, including from all the design thinking leaders: While definitions vary, design thinking usually involves…

Graphing the Debates

Oct 4, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, History, Information Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, TV & Movies

One thing that’s been fun about watching the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates on CNN is that you get to also watch a scrolling EKG-like graph of how viewers are actually responding to what is being shown. The methodology appears to involve a live audience, selected by CNN, to manipulate some sort of control that…

Seducing Web 2.0

Sep 24, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Education, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

Last week I delivered a brand new presentation at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, right here in New York City, entitled The Seduction of the Innocent: Merchandising in Interactive Product Design. (I’m presenting it again this Friday at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam, hopefully with a few enhancements.) The topic itself went through an…

Don’t Design the Box

Sep 14, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Design, Interface Design, Social Interaction, User Experience Design, Web

What happens when Microsoft’s marketers design the iPod’s box. How, if given a chance, might this thinking have shaped the product itself? There’s a classic [1] product design exercise called “Design the Box” in which a product’s packaging is conceptualized first, before the product itself is designed. The idea is to view the product from…

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…

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