Ideas and Discoveries

Audio-obsessed museum visitors prefer to listen to their audio guides rather than look at the art, revealing a lesson in interface design.

An “empathy suit” helps designers discover how well their creations work for aging customers. Are there clues here for software and web developers, too?

Today my personal odometer hits 36, and egad, I’m suddenly on the north side of my thirties.

An architecture exhibit offers some useful usability lessons for web and software designers.

Don Norman despairs that simple doesn’t sell, and the blogosphere reacts. What makes simplicity so difficult?

It’s always fascinating to see what misguided winds have brought people to the Big Medium shores.

Gift ideas, eye candy and brain food for the design-obsessed

When designer’s block strikes, hit up Mother Nature. You’ll be surprised what you might learn.

In which thousands of fantasy fans are spotted at the Louvre.

I’m giving myself a new challenge: Take a day off.

The challenges of preparing this most American of meals conjures thoughts of home.

A Rembrandt painting captures the odd psychology of software development.

Why I don’t dig Digg.

Secrets of a successful launch event.

Inspire customers with evidence that they’re kicking ass.

Color me morbid, but I’ve got this minor fascination with the visual trappings of 19th-century anatomical science.

How can it be anything other than a good omen that on the very day I sit down to write my first blog entry, my morning paper devotes its cover and a four-page spread to Web 2.0?