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Designing for One User (Bespoke User Interfaces)

Oct 26, 2008

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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…

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…

Exploring the Alternate Twitterverse

Sep 4, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Gaming, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Using some clever detective work (about which I will say little except that Google was really all I needed), I think I’ve uncovered the master plan behind the Mad Men Alternate Twitterverse that I’ve been enjoying lately. I could be wrong, but here’s my theory of how this all works: First, there are a large…

Mad Men’s “Alternate Twitterverse”

Sep 3, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Gaming, History, NYC, Personal, Reviews, Storytelling, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

I just found out that @benjamin_spock is following me on Twitter. I’m getting the feeling that I’m being sucked in to an Alternate Twitterverse generated by Mad Men. About two dozen new Twitterers have followed me over the last couple of weeks, and the majority of them have been characters from Mad Men. At first…

The Wisdom of Don Draper, Part 2: It’s Toasted!

Sep 1, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Personal, Reviews, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Work

As promised, I’m going to begin featuring some of my favorite Mad Men scenes in which Don Draper practices exquisite creative communication. Today’s episode: Lucky Strike. One of the most thrilling parts of my job is pitching our creative ideas to clients, whether it’s when we’re trying to win new business or during the actual…

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…

The Wisdom of Don Draper

Aug 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Upon a friend’s recommendation, a couple of weeks ago I started following don_draper on Twitter. More precisely, I’m following whoever is Twittering and playing the role of Don Draper, the main character and fictional creative director of a 1960’s Madison Avenue advertising agency on AMC’s critically-acclaimed series Mad Men, now in its second season. What’s…

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…

Flickr Usr

May 26, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

I’ve always loved Flickr, but I’ve never had the time to really use it as diligently as many of my friends apparently do. The Flickr Uploadr software always seemed a little wonky to me, and I didn’t savor the idea of sorting my photos locally in folders or in iPhoto and then having to repeat…

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