I’m very interested in how we develop the next generation of interactive design talent. Partly because I’ve been both a educator (teaching and developing curricula at Art Center) and an employer (my own studio, Triplecode, and within other firms). And also because my own personal path has covered a wide range of professions. David Malouf wrote a interesting post on Johnny Holland about design education: Interaction Design’s Early Formal Education & Beyond. He starts with…
 
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The recent earthquake in Haiti is devastation beyond belief. But it’s been so encouraging to see how interactive technologies are playing a part to help those in need. The American Red Cross’ mobile giving program, where anyone can txt “Haiti” to 90999 and automatically donate $10 to Haiti relief, has been a big success. [You may want to pause and do this yourself right now.] They’ve posted information on how much has been given ($3…
 
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Over the past several years I rarely read I.D. magazine. And so when it was recently announced that the magazine was going to cease publication I wasn’t terribly moved. Yes, it was sad to lose an historic design voice. But the magazine had been feeling less and less relevant. Perhaps it was just another casualty to the web – and the focused discussions that take place on increasingly specialized websites. But after reading Julie Laskie’s…
 
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Welcome to my new blog: Inventing Interactive. My friend Terry, who runs Sknitter, mentioned that keeping a blog fed is a lot of work. We’ll see how it goes — but if I don’t start I’ll never know. I’ve been involved in interactive media design, in one form or another, for almost 20 years. I’ve seen it change a lot in that time. From an scrappy collection of outsiders to a core part of our…
 
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