A few local people may know this already, but this post is to formally announce that after a crazy set of events, I'm headed off in a couple of months (if all the paperwork comes through) to the UK, namely Newcastle, to do a funded PhD at the University of Northumbria on the future of tangible interaction in relation to mobile devices (admittedly,...
With UX being a young discipline, it's still hard to know what the required readings are (and in fact where there are readings aside from blog posts). However, a number of people have created compilations of appropriate books. Here they are:
I recently attended IXD10 (it rocked). But one thing concerned me - a defininite lack of younger people (not too many under 30, and next to none under 25, those few being students). What's more, I'd seen this happen at other conferences, and even looking around mailing lists. Where are the younger voices?
Know about Godwin's Law? It's the rule that given any argument about politics, as time goes, the likelihood of someone mentioning Nazis approaches 1 (and that person immediately loses the argument).
Like many designers (what's that joke about carpenters and their houses again?) my own website stood through most of 2009 sadly neglected as a front page and some blog entries.
For those who follow what's going on in the UX world, one of the best things to happen this year is the establishment of a global UX Bookclub collective. We've had an Auckland group since June, which has had some great discussions on books ranging from mental models to sustainability. Here's a...
I was invited to give Unitec product design students an overview of UX. I trawled through the IXDA mailing and my favourited web pages to put together this 101:
In preparation for UX Australia, I recently read keynote speaker Alex Wright's 2007 book Glut. Beyond the obscure title, Wright's book is an entertaining history of what we now call information architecture (even if...
