Date range: Jun 2008 thru Aug 2008
Total results: 6

Jul 29, 2008: Another book signing: Nathan Shedroff on sustainable design   0 comments
I'll once again plagiarize my announcement over at the Rosenfeld Media site. But first: Nathan Shedroff is a truly outstanding person. And there's really no design topic that's more important than sustainability. Wow. I. Am. Thrilled. OK, here's the announcement: Four years ago, Peter Morville rolled out the user experience honeycomb, with its seven facets of UX. Since then, there's been something of a cottage industry of suggesting new facets (all of which, unfortunately, throw off the geometry of Peter's elegant hexagon). Perhaps it's time to consider adding yet another facet: sustainability. What and how we design has implications, especially when our designs are ultimately fabricated, transported, and physically consumed. In this time of post-peak oil and environmental worries, designers have an even greater responsibility to consider how our work impacts our planet. That's why Rosenfeld Media will be publishing Nathan Shedroff's newest book, "Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable". It's a…

Jul 29, 2008: My life comes crashing down   1 comment
On the other hand, it's been a great boon to my personal productivity so far. The story from Mashable.…

Jul 15, 2008: New RM book signing: Kevin Cheng on comics   4 comments
I'm quite excited about this one. In the interests of efficiency, I'll just steal the announcement from the Rosenfeld Media site: Many in the user experience world are become quite familiar with Kevin Cheng's wit and perspective through OK/Cancel, the brilliant comic strip he co-creates with Tom Chi (more about Kevin here.) Now we'll get to delve further into Kevin's creative mind: he's agreed to write See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas for Rosenfeld Media. Kevin and I have been bouncing around this book idea for years, and I'm thrilled that we'll have an opportunity to work together. Many recognize that comics are a powerful design tool, but assume they need to be artists to create comics. Through his workshops Kevin has been disproving that assumption for years, and now his book will do the same for a wider audience. See What I Mean will teach anyone, regardless of drawing ability, how to use comics to…

Jul 12, 2008: After the deluge, a question   13 comments
Nate's now over three weeks old and entering that state of fat and (mostly) happy. MJ and I are tired but doing well, and Iris is doing a bang-up job as big sister-in-chief. If you've been around a newborn for any amount of time, you quickly realize that wearing shirts other than white or off-white is a pointless pursuit: most of what goes down inevitably comes up. It's also summer in NYC, so my wardrobe consists exclusively of shorts, white T-shirts, and cheap sandals. That'd be fine, if I hadn't realized—at a way-too-early hour this morning, while feeding Nate—that that's essentially my normal wardrobe. And then it dawned on me: I'm 43 years old. And I still dress like I'm 23. That really ought to change. Once the weather cools down a bit, at which point Nate's digestive tract should have matured, I've got to upgrade my wardrobe. So, my question: where do…

Jun 20, 2008: I'm Lou Rosenfeld and I approved this message   19 comments
Mary Jean, who's always been the best writer in the family, writes: Nathaniel Oscar Rosenfeld was born Wednesday, June 18, at the extremely hospitable hour of 2:54 p.m. He was a strapping 8 pounds 6 ounces, and within minutes of emerging had figured out where the snack bar was, so we expect that number to stay impressive. After the world's longest pregnancy (27 years), everything went about perfectly with the labor and birth. That kid was so overripe he fell right off the tree. Iris is crazy about having a little bother brother. When Lou called her after the birth, I could hear her scream with excitement, through his phone, from six feet away. She suggested we use her middle name, Rachel, as his too, but we decided that a little individuality would be a good thing for both of them. Check them both out here. We're trying to remember how to do this infant thing again, but have…

Jun 10, 2008: One of these things is not...   4 comments
McCain's web team must have since been shamed into fixing their site's information architecture, because "Golf Gear" is no longer one of its four main tabs. But there's a screen grab over at Talking Points Memo...…