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Last night I had the honor of facilitating a panel with the brilliant duo of Ted Booth (Dir. of IxD @ Smart Design) and Jennifer Bove (VP of IxD @ HUGE).

Moving from industry to education; from deep/big urban to small town; and I’m sure many more.

Though the first attempt didn’t take, there has been strong support for a take 2. I really want to teach this special workshop on Sketching for IxD and I hope you can make it—now on Oct 29th.

Yup, I’m leaving Motorola as of the middle of December and starting off the new year as a Professor of Interaction Design at the Savannah College of Art & Design in historic Savannah, GA, USA.

In looking at my upcoming workshop on RIAs and IxD I thought I’d write a bit about defining an RIA in terms of user experience but also technology (sometimes they are inseparable).

Ok, I have been trying to keep politics off this blog, but this video by Sarah Silverman is AWESOME!!!

When thinking about sketching, there are several pieces that make a sketch a sketch, but to really make it a useful tool the quality of appropriate fidelity is one of the most important.

I’ll be teaching two 1-day workshops for SmartExperience.org in October. One about the interaction design of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and the other about Sketching in Interaction Design.

I listen to music all the time. (It stops the voices.) But I have had this recurring them in my head. The songs I truly love just feel like air. Like they are part of the landscape, like a natural emergence.

Here is my fundraising letter I’m sending to folks to hopefully convince them on donating to Obama through my fundraising page. Check it out! I also made it available as a Published Google Doc.

I’m trying to raise $10,000 to help Barack Obama. Go here and to donate:
Dave’s Barack Obama Fundraising Site

Last night changed me. I can no longer be a by-stander in the country I have chosen to live in. So I am writing here (well it is my blog after all) to ask you to join me.  … read on!

Submit by Aug 31 and if accepted you get in free! Here is the full announcement.

On the Information Architecture Institute’s member’s only list there has been a discussion about the place of IA (I’ll even extend it to UX practitioners) in an organization. The conversation then turned towards discussing the nature of the dichotomy of “creative” vs. “technical” since so many agency and corporate cultures split teams in this manner. Below is my response to the thread.