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Entering the 21st Century
After nearly a year of redesigning my website (and 15 with the last flat HTML design), the redesign launches today. I know, it's pretty standard WP fare but I had a LOT of content to move over and, with over 30 year of projects (25 professional), I still have a bunch...
Interactive Conversation presentation
This was a self-running interactive conversation about Interaction and Interface Design. It was given at the Intermedia conversation in 1995 as an interactive experience for the audience. It was self-running with a human attendant so that audience members could yell...
TED6 presentation
This presentation was given at the TED6 conference in Monterey. It didn't go over very well... I got some absolutely, uncalled for, violent attacks and some really enthusiastic, congratulations. It wasn't hard to figure out who was threatened and who was excited. The...
Herman Miller Assembly Instructions
Believe it or not, this has been one of my more interesting projects with Herman Miller. The original instructions take over 12 pages of paper for all 4 products. They also weren't the easiest to understand, either verablly or visually. 2001 Participants: Nathan...
Bridging the Innovation Culture Divide
My presentation at the Enterprise UX conference has finally been posted. This was an exceptional conference that focused on more than the standard UX topics. The video from my presentation, my slides, a sketch of my presentation, and the panel discussion have all been...
The Future of UX
This is a panel conversation from the UX Futures Conference in October, 2014 between me, Steve Krug, and Abbe Covert.
Tails of the City Mouse 2.0
Every year, the Microsoft store in San Francisco throws an AIDS benefit entitled Tails of the City. They give artists and designers a Microsoft basic mouse to be made into sculptures that are auctioned. My mouse this year was a translucent rubber casting with an...
Tails of the City Mouse
Every year, the Microsoft store in San Francisco throws an AIDS benefit, entitled Tails of the City. They give artists and designers a Microsoft basic mouse to be made into sculptures that are auctioned. My mouse this year was a remote-controlled mouse that really...
737 and 707 Rolling Files
The inspiration for the 737 and 707 carts comes from the carts used to serve food and beverages on airplanes, in particular, those of the 60s and 70s era air travel. Built for function almost exclusively, these carts had an aesthetic and proportion like no other...
Miscellaneous Identities (school years)
Altos Art (1980) vivid Media Series (1985) Clinton Auto Leasing (1988) Eric Glader (1984) LA Zoo (1986) Syndecrete (1985) Skandinavisk (1986) Angst Inc (1986) Sendmail (a997)