Lately, it’s occurred to me that if there is an aesthetics of IxD there is a concept of “ugly”. Here is an early take on that topic.

I’m teaching an interaction design class for SmartExperience.org right now, and I’m in the midst of my sketching lessons. Dealing with a smart group of UX professionals, here is what I’m figuring out about sketching. …

Feb 5-9 I’ll be in Vancouver, BC, Canada @ IxDA Interaction09 | Vancouver—THE global Interaction Design conference.

What proceeds is my rant after dealing with Blend for the last year. As in many rants there is some emotion that leads to misinformation, but the bulk of the message has a huge kernel of truth. The short of it is that Expression Studio and specifically Expression Blend even as a 2.0 is just bad design.

I’ll be teaching a longer reprise of the course I taught last year on Interaction Design for Rich Internet Applications for SmartExperience.org.

I’m not posting as much as before, but what I do do now is share a lot of what I find interesting in my daily readings using Google Reader.

When I think about what makes design so special I often get stuck, but today it was loudly pronounced to me as a process of purposeful accidents leading to serendipity.

Comments are off, and I can’t load images, but heck! all is good otherwise.

Numbers aren’t official yet, but Interaction08 is close to selling out.

If this was just about ONLY writing docs, Buzzword is the best online rich internet app for composing documents I have used to date.

So today, due to my really really hard work on help Dan Saffer bring Interaction08 to life, I have been given the title of co-chair of the conference. Yea!!!! Resume fodder for everyone!

Listen to me talk about interaction design’s foundations on Boxes and Arrows.

I mean really? It’s been almost 3 years since Jesse James Garrett coined the term AJAX and in so doing set us off on our parade down RIA lane. … Why is htis still considered a separate area of design and technology?

As I mentioned in my blurb about why I am excited about Interaction08, there is going to be a UXNet Holiday Party in NYC where I’ll be buying anyone a drink who registers for Interaciton08 while at the party. I’ll have an iPhone to register with.