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Scrubbing the iPhone Scrubber

Nov 14, 2007

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in Design, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design

Apple discarded the iPod’s signature feature, the scroll wheel, in the iPhone and iPod touch. But the new scrubber bar is almost useless — it’s impossible to move the playhead any less than a few minutes per hop. So I thought I’d fix it.

Georges Seurat Dot Com

Oct 31, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Behavior, Design, Education, History, Images, Information Architecture, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

It’s hard to understate the pride I felt on behalf of my colleagues at Behavior when I read these words in Friday’s New York Times: “The Museum of Modern Artâ€™s elegantly plain exhibition of Georges Seuratâ€™s drawings begins with an unexpectedly extraordinary moment of computerized art viewing. Seuratâ€™s four surviving notebooks have been converted to…

Lying with (Advertising) Statistics

Oct 30, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Reviews, Science, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

A running theme here at graphpaper.com is the debunking of shoddy research methodologies and junk science used to lend authority to and help guide decisions in the design professions. I want to encourage my readers, and the industry as a whole, to (a) stop being so gullible about the research they hear about in the…

The User Experience Flip Mode

Oct 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Books, Design, Education, History, Interface Design, Personal, Science, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

One basic assumption of good experience design is that people fundamentally don’t like change. They can’t deal with it, it’s too risky, and changes will all too often lead to failures. But the human mind’s capacity to adapt to change, sometimes rapidly and seamlessly, can be astonishing.

Ambient Intimacy, Collective Musing, Intellectual Doodling

Oct 10, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

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

Leisa Reichelt coined the term “ambient intimacy” to describe the genre of social computing apps led by Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce. She was interested in the constant sense of closeness users feel with their circle of friends, no matter how far-flung, through technologies that informally reveal us to each other. Jyri EngestrÃ¶m, co-founder of Jaiku…

Check your Googlepulse

Oct 3, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology

Every person, place, thing, and idea whose name can be found on the Internet has an existence that can be detected and measured by search engines. The relentless spiders of Google will find you and rank you (and let’s leave for another day the techno-philosophical question of whether web pages that have no incoming or…

“Not Unpleasant” is Not Enough

Sep 28, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

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

An article in the New York Times the other day discusses a study that suggests that there are differences between men and women in how pleasant or unpleasant they find certain normal everyday activities. Apparently, for example, men find spending time with their parents far more pleasant then women do, while men disproportionally dislike home…

The Social Web’s Coffeehouses, Nightclubs, Country Clubs, and Taverns

Sep 27, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, History, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web

In the 17th century, a peculiar phenomenon emerged in England: men with no family or institutional ties to one another would gather informally to socialize, debate, and network with like-minded peers and colleagues, to discuss everything from politics to literature to economics, building social connections between them that hadn’t existed before. They met in taverns…

Our Swimmer

Sep 21, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Cycling & Running, Education, NYC, Personal, Technology

This is the least humiliating frame from my whole clip. I’ve recently started a swimming training program so I can competently complete my weakest part of the trifecta: Running, biking, and swimming. Hopefully by next summer I will be ready for my goal, to compete in the New York City Triathlon. An interesting aspect of…

Back to Mac, Part 1: Why I am Leaving Windows and Getting a Mac

Aug 27, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web, Work

As I was subtly hinting at in my last couple of posts, I have changed my Windowy ways. I have switched (back) to Mac. Finally. This is the first in an ad hoc series of articles documenting my experiences with this transition, looking at it from many perspectives: personal and cultural observations, usability and user…

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