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Going to Amsterdam

Sep 24, 2008

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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…

Seducing Web 2.0

Sep 24, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Education, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

Last week I delivered a brand new presentation at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, right here in New York City, entitled The Seduction of the Innocent: Merchandising in Interactive Product Design. (I’m presenting it again this Friday at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam, hopefully with a few enhancements.) The topic itself went through an…

I’m Delighted to Tweet You!

Sep 7, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Personal, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

There are about a dozen people I follow on Twitter whom I’ve never actually met (or whom I’ve met only briefly) but who after months of exchanging tweets I can honestly call good friends. In other words, we have formed our friendships completely on Twitter, from scratch. This is probably happening to a lot of…

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…

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…

Interview: IA in the Public Sector

May 28, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Information Architecture, NYC, Personal, Politics, Social Interaction, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

UX Social is Olga Howard‘s new initiative to investigate connections between user experience design and public policy. Recently Olga has been interviewing information architects about their views about IA in the public sector. She interviewed quite a few of us at last month’s IA Summit in sunny Miami. Her interview with me is now posted…

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