Category: Work

My Aging Fleet

Aug 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Design, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Work

I’m pretty well-known among my friends and peers to be a gadget geek. But over the last 5 years or so, my gadget-acquisition pace has crawled to a near standstill. Most of the electronic hardware gadgets I’ve been using lately are actually pretty ancient: Mobile Phone: 2002 iPod (3G): 2003 Canon PowerShot Digital Camera: 2003…
Watch Me Speak in NYC: Thursday July 19 and Thursday July 26

Jul 15, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Business, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, NYC, Personal, Social Interaction, User Experience Design, Work

I am speaking at two upcoming events sponsored by several New York-based information architecture organizations. When my wife asked who the organizers were, I said “It’s the IA Union!” At both events, I will be delivering a version of my informative, fast paced, and fun IA Summit presentation, “Interaction Design Style“. July 19: IA Summit…
My First Podcast

Jul 11, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Business, Information Architecture, Personal, Storytelling, User Experience Design, Web, Work

A few months ago during an intermission at the 2007 IA Summit, Christina Wodtke and Bill Wetherell accosted me in the hallway of the Las Vegas Flamingo hotel. The next thing I knew, Christina was interviewing me for a new series of Boxes and Arrows podcasts. The 16-minute interview has just been published, and I’ve…
Sopranos and Seinfeld: Plus Ã‡a Change…

Jun 11, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, History, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies, Work

Sartre would be proud. The shocking (and to many viewers, utterly disappointing) ending of The Sopranos series finale was perfect. The tableau itself was a perfect jewel: the nuclear family all together, happy it seems for the moment, but completely surrounded by unknown and unseen danger. David Chase pumped the scene full of more tension…
Interaction Design Style (My IA Summit 2007 Presentation)

Apr 1, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Art, Books, Business, Design, Gaming, graphpaper.com, History, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Language, Music, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design, Web, Work

It’s been a little less than a week since my IA Summit presentation. To my great surprise, it went really well. I mean really well. In the next day or so I will be posting a summary of my experiences preparing and discussing my topic, which was, in a word, style. Many people came to…
Come to my Stylish Talk at the 2007 IA Summit

Mar 21, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Art, Behavior, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Information Architecture, Language, Personal, Science, Social Interaction, Storytelling, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

I am speaking next Monday at the 2007 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas. My topic will be “Interaction Design Style“. It will be a highly visual romp through a variety of topic having to do with the concept of style and how it fits into the design of interactive systems: The definition of…
Stop Putting Dates in File Names!

Mar 6, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Information Design, Interface Design, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

You know who you are. You are my friends, colleagues, and clients. You’re really smart about how to use computers and stuff. You’re great people. But I just can’t stand it when you put dates in your file names. Whether you put dashes between the numbers, use two- or four-digit years, I still can’t stand…
Early Adopter vs. Efficient Person

Jan 18, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Work

As a UI developer, I want to be an “early adopter” of as many new technologies and gizmos as possible. Even if they’re clunky, non-helpful, efficiency drain tools, I feel like it’s my obligation to be well-informed about the latest gadgets and websites. So I’m often downloading trial versions, and occasionally checking out a friend’s…
One Month

Dec 17, 2006

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, graphpaper.com, Personal, Storytelling, Work

I haven’t posted in a little over a month. I’ve been telling myself that my first new post wouldn’t be a narcissistic navel-gazer about why I haven’t posted — that I would instead just get back to the business of writing posts about real things, starting where I left off as if there were no…
I Like to Crash

Oct 31, 2006

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Business, Interface Design, Personal, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

I am an extreme multitasker. I usually have at least fifteen windows open on my desktop at any given time, often as many as thirty. I usually have several Firefox windows open at once, too, each with a dozen or more active tabs with pages I either intend to read or need to use as…