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How Bad is Bad?

Dec 1, 2008

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

John Gruber invites public ridicule to the UI design of this file renaming application. And yes, it certainly looks terrible, like a stereotypical case study in haphazard, bloated, bad UI design. But is the UI design really that bad? I’m not so sure. As someone who has had to do all manner of complex and…

Talking about Sketching about Interacting

Nov 11, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Education, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, The Future, User Experience Design

If you’re in NYC this Thursday, you should come to see From Sketching to Experience, the first of Liz Danzico‘s Dot Dot Dot series of small, informal (and free) lectures. These lectures are the ramp-up to SVA’s new MFA in Interaction Design program. I’ll be one of the speakers this Thursday, and am also going…

Vote: The Machinery of Democracy

Nov 3, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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

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:…

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…

Obama Futurama

Aug 29, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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…

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…

iPhone Apps I Want

Jul 28, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

I am thoroughly enjoying the debut crop of iPhone Apps — a welcome improvement over the (mostly) second-rate half-baked apps available in the Jailbreak era. Here are a few imaginary apps and functions I wish I could be using right now. 1. Batch Sync Most New Yorkers with iPhones will recognize this scenario: You get…

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…

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