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Experience Design User

Apr 1, 2009

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in Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Personal, User Experience Design, Web, Work

A week ago, Jesse James Garret veritably bellowed the words “user experience designer” in his plenary address at this year’s IA Summit in Memphis, attempting to create some common ground between the information architects and interaction designers in the room and across the industry. In a strong and deeply-felt speech, he admonished the community (-ies?)…

Putting Things Off to Get Things Done

Feb 7, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, graphpaper.com, Information Design, Interface Design, Personal, Technology, User Experience Design, Work

Tubes for the Sticks

Feb 2, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, History, NYC, Personal, Politics, Science, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

In his Time Magazine Person of the Year interview, Barack Obama said “it turns out there’s some spending that has to be done on information technology, for example, that we can do very swiftly.” If recent speeches by the new President are any sign, I sure hope he’s talking about rural broadband access. Like many…

Farewell

Jan 21, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, History, Images, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, The Future

I loved this picture so much I just had to find a way to look at it every day to make the moment last. And now, if you have an iPhone, you can, too. Presenting the Farewell George Bush iPhone Wallpaper! Download it. Credit for this image is “Reuters AFP/Saul Loeb/Pool” (UPDATE: Full credits in…

Mastering Interaction Design: Deadline January 15th!

Jan 14, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Design, Education, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

As you might already know, The School of Visual Arts, one of New York’s leading art and design institutions, is gearing up for a brand new MFA in Interaction Design program beginning this September. SVA has for many years been highly regarded, especially for its vibrant and cutting edge MFA programs (for example in Design…

Grand Old Redesign

Jan 4, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Design, History, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, The Future, User Experience Design

Newsweek invited four “hot” design firms to “reboot” the brand of the Republican party to appeal to younger voters. Not an easy challenge. And while the design work itself looks good, I think each of them missed the big picture objective by failing to speak to core Republican values. First up is Pentagram. Pentagram proposes…

Video is a Verb

Jan 2, 2009

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Christopher Fahey

in graphpaper.com, History, Information Architecture, Language, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design

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…

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…

Behavior is Seven!

Dec 4, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, NYC, Personal, Web, Work

Today is the seventh anniversary of the incorporation of Behavior, the humble web and user experience design consultancy I helped found in 2001. Happy birthday to us! My four awesome partners and I started the company in what at the time seemed like the worst possible economic climate to launch a new business. The one-two…

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…

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