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Pet Peeve #3.11: Windows Vista lameness…

August 29, 2008

I meant to add this awhile back but never did.  It’s just too good to not have.
Probably the worst, most heinous new feature I’ve seen in Vista… inexpicable, really — so unbelievably wrong and terrible from any and all design and human-centered perspectives — is this “copy file” dialog when you are, say, dragging a […]

Pet Peeves, Technology, Design - 0 Comments

Cute plush creatures every day for a year!

July 10, 2008

I went into a neat shop today as I explored Seattle called The Anne Bonny.  There were some great works of art in there (some fantastic drawings/paintings by an artist named Travis Louie) and lots of used brick-a-brack.  But, then I went upstairs and was delighted to discover the workshop of Coco Howard, where she […]

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Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer

July 2, 2008

Kristy Scovel and I finished (finally!) our video for school, which premiered at the IIT Institute of Design to about 20+ people on Monday, June 30, 2008.
With the guidance, support, and great intentionally bad interviewing prowess of our advisor, Jeremy Alexis, we set out to create an educational video for new ID students and other […]

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