design

The best technologies disappear into the environment to minimize distraction from the content or experience at hand. Yet we design for distraction, and we call it engagement. When you say “engagement,” I now hear “theft of attention.”

As devices multiply, the new opportunity is less about designing individual screens, and more about designing interactions between the devices.

Smashing Magazine published The Mobile Book this week. I was honored to contribute the book’s final chapter about designing for touch.

New hybrid keyboard-touch laptops and tablets have changed the game. When any desktop machine could have a touch interface, we have to proceed as if they all do.