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Should Bloggers Assume that Their Readers are Dumber than They Are?

Jul 10, 2007

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in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Information Design, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, User Experience Design, Web

Several bloggers I know have confessed to me that occasionally they’ll compose and publish articles or posts that they don’t feel especially passionate about, writing things that they aren’t particularly proud of or inspired by, simply because they know that certain topics, ideas, or opinions will give them an easy and predictable traffic boost. For…

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…

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…

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…

In Defense of PowerPointism

Apr 29, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Design, Language, Personal, Social Interaction, Storytelling, User Experience Design

Will Wright‘s cryptic, clip-art crazy PowerPoint slides make sense when he’s right there talking about them. Microsoft’s PowerPoint is frequently blamed for the poor quality of many presentations and for a supposedly- disastrous state of communication in both the private and the public spheres. Public speakers are lambasted for their wooden stage presence, crippled by…

Experience or Don’t Experience. There is no Try.

Apr 8, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Books, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Interface Design, Language, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

The word “experience” comes from the Latin word “experÄ«rÄ«”, or to try. It’s strange, then, that in modern English the two words, “experience” and “try”, have such different meanings: when we try something we tend to take a sip or a nibble, get our toes wet, or go for a test drive around the block.…

A Peek into the Sausage Factory (IA Summit Presentation Post-Mortem)

Apr 2, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Art, Books, Business, Design, History, Information Architecture, Information Design, Language, Personal, Reviews, Storytelling, User Experience Design

My IA Summit presentation was an experiment in what is a new presentation style for me. I have long admired the rapid-fire presentation style of Lawrence Lessig (aka the “Lessig method“) and in particular the example of Dick Hardt’s keynote at Identity 2.0. Also, Iâ€™ve always wanted to achieve the same aesthetic and pedagogical dazzle…

Come to my Stylish Talk at the 2007 IA Summit

Mar 21, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Art, Behavior, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Information Architecture, Language, Personal, Science, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

I am speaking next Monday at the 2007 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas. My topic will be “Interaction Design Style“. It will be a highly visual romp through a variety of topic having to do with the concept of style and how it fits into the design of interactive systems: The definition of…

SXSW 2007: Twitter & Social Cyborgs

Mar 14, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Images, Interface Design, Language, Personal, Reviews, Science, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

Essentially, Twitter permits large and disparate groups of people to synchronize their activities with one another without there being any obligation to actually engage in real planning. When you announce where you are and what youâ€™re doing, there is no â€œdealâ€ in place that any action will be taken on the information youâ€™ve shared, unlike…

SXSW 2007: Class Dismissed, or How My Panel Went

Mar 11, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, History, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Science, Storytelling, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

My SXSW panel, High Class and Low Class Web Design, is over now, and I can now share a little bit of about how I and a few others think it went. Some bloggers who attended the panel have already published their own notes and reviews, too, so if you want to skip what I…

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