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Blind Spot the Trailer
JJ Hadley made an excellent trailer to talk about why our new book is so important to business: www.vimeo.com/192042612
Blind Spot finally published
This book has been five years in the making, rewritten (from scratch) four times, and has finally shipped! My co-authors, Steve Diller and Sean Sauber, have worked tirelessly on it with me and it's time to share it with the world. Douglas Rushkoff was kind enough to...
New presentations posted to Slideshare
It was a busy two months in February and March with two different trips to Seattle and workshops and talks both times. In addition, I was in New York City with WebVisions also speaking and leading a brand, new workshop! I've posted everything to SlideShare for those...
My article on the ethics of business
I wrote this several months ago and updated it but it should be relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jd-beltran/spending-monday-giving-tu_b_8722958.html Thanks to JD Beltran for getting it published!
My UX Poland talk
My presentation from UX Poland this Spring on The Value Design Brings to Business, was just posted to YouTube.
Anthropomorphism: What Science Fiction Can Tell Us About Yelling at Computers and Naming Roombas
I had forgotten about this article in the Huffington Post from 2012 when our book, Make It So, came out:
The beginning of nathan.com
While compiling a presentation of my old company, vivid's, work, a trip to the Way Back Machine at the Internet Archive yielded the old versions of my own site. Here was the first version, from 1996. From the beginning, I had a list of Nathans, though it wasn't yet...
Design Quarterly 145: Hats
I designed this publication around Richard Saul Wurman's writings. It's got some of mine and Richard's favorite examples of his work (as well as others). It was one of my highlights from working with him at TheUnderstandingBusiness. 1989 It's only available from Ebay...
SONY Tradecomm interface
In 1994, SONY hired vivid to design the interface for a stock trading system within General Magic's MagicCap OS for the SONY-branded device to use this system. It was a very limited interface (a small screen with only 4 levels of gray) but a fascinating device. The...
Kellogg’s Cereal Mixer
In 1998, working with some of the most fun professionals ever (especially Steve Gundrum and Davis Masten), vivid was hired by Mattson to work with Kellogg's on an online customer cereal store. This system allowed anyone to create custom cereal using hundreds of...