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Georges Seurat Dot Com

Oct 31, 2007

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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…

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…

“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…

There is No Strategy!

Sep 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Language, User Experience Design, Web

Designers of interactive products and services are having more and more influence on how businesses work, providing guidance that goes go far beyond layouts, flows, grids, colors, and movement — ideas that are fundamentally more that just look and feel. We are helping businesses understand and solve broader challenges, helping them define their core feature…

TimesSelect is Dead. Times Op-Ed Columnists Become Relevant Again.

Sep 18, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, NYC, Politics, Reviews, Storytelling, User Experience Design, Web

The New York Times is ending their TimesSelect “service” as of tomorrow, September 19th. Despite my deep resentment of the whole TimesSelect idea in the first place, I applaud the Times’ decision to end it and to finally align themselves with the way the web’s culture of thought actually works. During the 2004 election cycle,…

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…

Me vs. You (vs. i)

Aug 17, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Language, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

In this final chapter of Pronoun vs. Pronoun (see previous chapters User vs. You, User vs. Tron, and You vs. I), we will now weigh in on the great schism between Me and You. Almost every web design team I’ve ever worked with has had to, at some point, wrestle with the “Me vs. You”…

User vs. Tron

Aug 2, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Images, Interface Design, Language, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

This is just a reminder that, in Tron, the citizens of the computer system worshipped their users. And make no mistake, “users” was exactly what they called them.

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