SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design

The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer

For some time I had been slowly acquiring books, reviewing books, and recommending books to collegues who were interested in “getting into” interaction design, user experience design, information architecture or usability. This eventually led to me cataloging my list of what I consider the best books in the field. With help from my friend Dave [...]

Nine Abstractions of @SemanticWill

Author Note: I had a conversation with John yesterday. He had just awaken from sleep after flying into LA from Spain. He asked that I work to review and edit some of my original work which form some of the earliest Pre-Simulationist writing mostly for the benefit of new Pre-Sims who might never see some [...]

Club Rain. A Lyrical Reflection on #IxD10

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.” Rainer Maria Rilke The universe slumped in a hammock off Bay Street, devising ingenious new ways to break my heart, her robe parting suggestively at her forked and dangling legs. Between the serene [...]

Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

A few weeks ago, I was able to collaborate with Brynn Evans in creating a presentation for Enterprise Search Summit West. Here is the description of the presentation as well as links to the original on SlideShare. Social search has the potential to improve search practices beyond what is possible with traditional informational retrieval algorithms. Two [...]

Strategic Social Design & SxD. Some humble thoughts.

(caveat emptor: This is just a draft of thoughts I ran together this morning about some thinking I have been doing. I published it in the blog just to force me to tend to it, edit it, and gain feedback while I think through some of the issues that have been vexing me about designing [...]