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Subway Orienteering

Oct 17, 2007

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in Architecture, Design, Information Design, NYC, Reviews, Social Interaction, User Experience Design

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (the people who run the subways) have done a test installation of a new feature to help riders orient themselves as they exit our often-labyrinthine subway stations. They’re placing sidewalk-level signage to tell riders which way is north and indicating which direction the nearest streets and avenues can be…

What I Learned in Art School (Is it Design Thinking?)

Oct 17, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Business, Design, Education, History, Personal, User Experience Design, Work

Like a fish who doesn’t know that he is wet, I have no idea what it is like to not be a design thinker. And I suppose that, conversely, a lot of people who talk about design thinking have no idea what designers are actually taught. Are we really taught different skills than our MBA…

Innovation Through Ignorance

Oct 15, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Design, graphpaper.com, Personal, User Experience Design

When I write a blog post about something I’m not an expert on, which is pretty much everything I write about, I usually Google the hell out of it first to (a) make sure I don’t say something stupid, (b) get some ideas I can build on to make myself seem smarter, and (c) avoid…

Check your Googlepulse

Oct 3, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology

Every person, place, thing, and idea whose name can be found on the Internet has an existence that can be detected and measured by search engines. The relentless spiders of Google will find you and rank you (and let’s leave for another day the techno-philosophical question of whether web pages that have no incoming or…

Inside the Airstream

Sep 29, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Images, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, User Experience Design

Peggy and I went upstate last weekend for our friend M.River’s birthday party. We gathered at Kate’s Lazy Meadow Motel in lovely Mt. Tremper, New York, owned and operated by Kate Pierson from the B-52’s. We stayed in one of her four (soon to be six) fully-functional vintage Airstream trailers.

There is No Strategy!

Sep 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Language, User Experience Design, Web

Designers of interactive products and services are having more and more influence on how businesses work, providing guidance that goes go far beyond layouts, flows, grids, colors, and movement — ideas that are fundamentally more that just look and feel. We are helping businesses understand and solve broader challenges, helping them define their core feature…

Idiocracy is Reality

Sep 14, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Work

In the future of the movie Idiocracy, Carl’s Jr.’s slogan becomes “Fuck You, I’m Eating”… which isn’t really a stretch from the attitude expressed in their current ad campaign. In fact, a lot of marketing today deliberately insults and degrades the consumer. Why?

42 Drawers (+12)

Sep 13, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Images, Information Architecture, NYC, Personal, User Experience Design

I just bought a pair of chests of tiny drawers — 54 in all. Believe me, I have enough stuff to put in these drawers. But here’s my question: How shall I organize them?

Back to Mac, Part 1: Why I am Leaving Windows and Getting a Mac

Aug 27, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web, Work

As I was subtly hinting at in my last couple of posts, I have changed my Windowy ways. I have switched (back) to Mac. Finally. This is the first in an ad hoc series of articles documenting my experiences with this transition, looking at it from many perspectives: personal and cultural observations, usability and user…

iPhone Microscopy

Aug 26, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Design, Images, Personal, Technology

I bought a folding loup with 10x magnification recently, after reading that the iPhone works nicely with photo loups. I also have a decent microscope that I just realized also produces nice images simply by holding the iPhone up to the eyepiece. More to come, definitely.

Category: Design