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Video is a Verb

Jan 2, 2009

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What do you do with a video camera? You video. I’ve always wanted to coin a phrase or invent a word, to have a term of my own invention be spoken by thousands or even millions of people every day. An astonishingly large number of my friends and peers have done exactly this, some spectacularly…

Adversarial Design, Part 1: Collaboration Through Disagreement

Dec 16, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, History, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

Disagreeing with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, as I did two weeks ago, is like walking into a minefield. Although Gruber has a cutting wit, he is thoughtful and respectful when it comes to discussions of technology and design. But when you spar with Gruber, you also step into the ring with his readership, tens of…

Shoot Your Family

Dec 15, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Education, History, Personal, TV & Movies

I have two pieces of advice for user experience design professionals visiting their families over the traditional end-of-year holiday season. First, take this opportunity to do some intimate, informal usability testing with your family and loved ones. I’ve written about this before, but I am encouraging it again: There’s a good chance that many of…

Designed in Detroit by General Motors

Dec 13, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Education, History, Politics, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

I am a 37-year-old user experience designer, and I don’t have a driver’s license. I don’t even know how to drive a car. I moved to New York City when I was 18 and I just never really needed to learn. Moreover, I don’t even find automobiles all that interesting or seductive, at least not…

Voter Intent / User Behavior

Dec 1, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, History, Information Design, Interface Design, Politics, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

In Minnesota, they are currently recounting the ballots in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. As part of the process, they are re-analyzing thousands of ballots that were discarded during the initial optical-scan machine count due to problems with the ballots themselves — usually stray marks and incompletely-filled-in dots. Usually, a human…

VOTED!

Nov 4, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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

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:…

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…

Going to Amsterdam

Sep 24, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Business, Education, History, Information Architecture, Personal, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

When I was just 20 years old, I went on a student exchange program to Amsterdam to study sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Those six months I spent in Europe, impoverished and starry-eyed, shaped a lot of who I am, both personally and creatively. I’m delighted to say that I will be back in…

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