Reviews

IA Summit 2008: User-Centred Design Is Dead?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Jared Spool, the IA Summit 2008 keynote speaker, posited the idea that UCD was an out-dated methodology that should be retired by the UX community. Why? According to Spool , in the last 30 years, there has not been one website or other digital innovation that can point back to ...

SxSW Keynote: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder and CEO

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Photo Source: Wired Blog Referred to by some industry analysts as a train wreck interview, there is no shortage of opinions debating the merits of Sarah Lacey's keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook. I will leave it up to the blogosphere, twitter, Cnet and Wired to ...

SxSW: The 10 Things We’ve Learned at 37 Signals

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I went to Jason Fried’s talk about what he’s learned from starting 37 Signals, the Chicago-based company responsible for Basecamp and Highrise. With his no nonsense and thoughtful approach to running a company it is easy to appreciate why 37 Signals is such a phenomenal success. His panel was intelligent ...

SxSW Opening Remarks: The Youth of Today is Engaged, Creative and Politically Active

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

A lively and thought provoking panel between Henry Jenkins (MIT professor and Cultural Theorist) and Stephen Johnson, CEO of outside.in and author. Photo Source: ArMiller Here were some of the main takeaways: New forms of learning are emerging and Jenkins and Johnson argued that today’s youth culture is not dumber. The youth ...

Rocking the Digital World at SxSW Interactive 2008

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

SxSW Interactive is now well and truly underway. The crowds have gathered. This year the Interactive Festival is expecting more than 7500 attendees drawn from all walks of life including designers, developers, usability professionals, start ups, consultants, authors, tech evangelists, cultural theorists, project managers, bloggers and journalists to name ...