Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part I

Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part I

Image: View from inside the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon As we look at the techniques and practices used within the product & user experience discipline, we can look at the macro level concepts of: Understand, Define, and Validate. These are considered by...
Lumon

Lumon

I had the privilege to work out of the legendary Bell Labs campus, now the Bell Works, in Holmdel, NJ this past week.  I grew up near this facility and it was an incredibly secret campus with a strict no-trespassing policy. As kids if we even tried to cut across the...
Beware the charm offensive

Beware the charm offensive

Image: Mother, the computer used on the Nostromo to guide the team in Ridley Scott’s “Alien”. Copyright 20th Century Studios (The Walt Disney Company) Beware the “charm offensive”! Over the course of my career I have seen lots of personal interaction...
Design is the answer

Design is the answer

Design should not dominate things, should not make architecture and decoration out of them. Things should be made to accompany man and serve his well-being. Alvar Aalto I have said this for years and many times before, art is a statement. Art can exist on its own....