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R.I.P.: Owning Music (1880-2008)

Feb 6, 2008

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in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Last.fm‘s announcement that they will be allowing their users to listen to full-length versions of millions of music tracks is one of the final nails in the coffin of the traditional recorded-music industry. Owning music is dead. The new business model for making money in the music industry is simple: Design a better music distribution…

Challenge: If You Can’t Say Something Nice about OLPC…

Dec 23, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Politics, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

The One Laptop Per Child is now appearing in people’s mailboxes. But I’m a little sour about all the unquestioning praise for the user interface design, which to me looks like a complete disaster. So I have a challenge for UX pundits and professionals who are also proud new owners of the XO: Say something…

Kindle Review in the Form of a Photo Collage

Nov 25, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Books, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Images, Interface Design, Language, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

‘m not going to say much about Kindle — as an iPhone owner, I find both the device and the service colossally dumb. But the breathless excitement over the supposed “death of the book” is even more preposterous, especially to book lovers like my wife and me. For us, books, periodicals, and printed matter of…

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.

Think of Al Gore. Don’t be a Dick.

Oct 13, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Education, History, Personal, Politics, Science, Storytelling, The Future, TV & Movies

Al Gore and Iron Eyes Cody. Go check out the original TV ads: Canoe and Horseback Whenever I am about to do something wasteful, like throwing a plastic bottle in the trash or turning the air conditioner on when it’s 74 degrees, my wife says these words to me: “Think of Al Gore.” The phrase,…

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…

Idiocracy is Reality

Sep 14, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Work

In the future of the movie Idiocracy, Carl’s Jr.’s slogan becomes “Fuck You, I’m Eating”… which isn’t really a stretch from the attitude expressed in their current ad campaign. In fact, a lot of marketing today deliberately insults and degrades the consumer. Why?

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…

Technology and War

Jul 2, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in History, Politics, Technology, The Future

I’m disappointed in the pace of technological change lately, in particular when you consider that we live in a time of war. During World War II, some of the most astounding technological developments of all time were developed, both by the Allies and the Axis powers. In some cases existing technologies advanced by leaps and…

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…

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