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Muddling Through eBay

Jun 24, 2007

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in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, User Experience Design, Web

The online auction site eBay recently redesigned their site, and (as it usually has in the past) the new design is being subjected to some pretty harsh critique. When critics bash eBay’s design, they usually focus on the site’s general visual design, or on the information design of individual pages. Even I have in the…

Grace, not just Efficiency, in Queue Management

Jun 23, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Branding and Marketing, Business, NYC, Reviews, Social Interaction, User Experience Design

Large retail stores and fast-food restaurants have a simple choice when designing their checkout customer experience: Multiple registers, multiple lines, one line per register Multiple registers, single line This problem is known in the retail industry as “queue management”. The New York Times today features an article comparing the checkout experiences of several New York…

The Don’t Stop Believin’ Game / Bristles on the Long Tail

Jun 17, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Business, Music, Personal, Reviews, Storytelling, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

At least Tony didn’t pick Heart’s “Magic Man”! Almost every Friday near the end of the day, someone at Behavior will start playing loud music to help remind everyone to stop working soon — the musical equivalent of the whistle that tells Fred Flintstone that it’s quittin’ time. This Friday, my partner Jeff blasted “Don’t…

The Google Street View Racial Gerrymander

Jun 14, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Business, History, Images, NYC, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, Web

I love Google Street View. But what a surprise I had when I tried to view my own building and found out that the Street View photo-truck decided that they would limit their coverage to upscale (i.e., white) neighborhoods.

Sopranos and Seinfeld: Plus Ã‡a Change…

Jun 11, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, History, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies, Work

Sartre would be proud. The shocking (and to many viewers, utterly disappointing) ending of The Sopranos series finale was perfect. The tableau itself was a perfect jewel: the nuclear family all together, happy it seems for the moment, but completely surrounded by unknown and unseen danger. David Chase pumped the scene full of more tension…

Klutzes and Touch Screens

Jun 6, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

The HTC Touch (ht Dave Malouf) is a new touch-screen mobile phone with an iPhone-like seductive user interface, replete with the same kind of stunning UI bells and whistles — animations, rotations, sliding, flinging, and bouncing — that we are all eagerly awaiting in the Apple iPhone. A recent review in MEX magazine, however, isn’t…

Start Your Own Sopranos Finale Office Pool

Jun 6, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Gaming, Information Design, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies

UPDATE 6/11: See the results of the pool, and my take on the Sopranos finale, here. In anticipation of The Sopranos series finale this Sunday, everyone I know is making predictions about who lives, who dies, and all other kinds of plots and events. To help make the speculation even more interesting, I’ve put together…

Creative Creationists

Jun 3, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Design, Education, History, Politics, Reviews, Science, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design

I’ve always wanted to believe that rational scientific thought and creative/artistic thinking are not just incompatible, but that they are in fact closely linked. Both in my personal art projects and in my professional work as an interaction designer, artistry and science have always gone hand in hand. My peers and friends generally share this…

Art Direction in the CSS Zen Garden

May 6, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, User Experience Design, Web

I was browsing through the CSS Zen Garden recently, and I was struck again at just how great it is. [If you’re not familiar with the CSS Zen Garden, go there and you’ll figure it out] I don’t mean to say that I think the designs are all excellent (more than a few of them…

A View From Singapore

May 1, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Education, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, User Experience Design, Web

Going through my server logs the other day, I discovered that my series of articles from last summer, User Research Smoke & Mirrors, was a required reading assignment for a User Experience Design class at the National University of Singapore, taught by Mr. Raghavendra Reddy. In browsing the official site for the course, I was…

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