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Designing for One User (Bespoke User Interfaces)

Oct 26, 2008

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in Architecture, Behavior, Business, Design, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web, Work

What if someone paid you thousands of dollars to design a user interface or an application for just one person? Most design work is done for audiences: whether designing mass market products or niche objects of desire, we seldom have a single, real person in mind when we work. We think of audiences as groups…

Idea: Video “Mix Tapes”

Oct 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

We love sending video clips to each other. Links to YouTube videos of cute animals, spectacular accidents, inspiring speeches, nostalgic memories, and music videos fly back and forth through our email inboxes all day long. We gather around each others desks and call family members to our laptops to spend a few minutes watching a…

Post-It Pollster

Oct 21, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, History, Images, Information Design, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

Twittering the Election

Oct 8, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Design, History, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Last night was the second U.S. Presidential Debate. One of my favorite new election-based interactive user experiences (in addition to CNN’s approval graphs and CNN’s magic wall) is Twitter’s election.twitter.com. Here’s a sample of what you would have seen during last night’s debate: TechCrunch reviewed this site last week. Here’s their review in its entirety:…

Design Thinking Out Of The Box

Oct 6, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Interface Design, The Future, User Experience Design, Web, Work

From “The Seduction of the Interface“ Saturday’s New York Times (in the Business section, of course) had an interesting article about “design thinking”. For starters, it included by far the clearest summary of what design thinking is that I’ve ever read, including from all the design thinking leaders: While definitions vary, design thinking usually involves…

Going to Amsterdam

Sep 24, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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…

Don’t Design the Box

Sep 14, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Design, Interface Design, Social Interaction, User Experience Design, Web

What happens when Microsoft’s marketers design the iPod’s box. How, if given a chance, might this thinking have shaped the product itself? There’s a classic [1] product design exercise called “Design the Box” in which a product’s packaging is conceptualized first, before the product itself is designed. The idea is to view the product from…

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…

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