Horrible news: a bike was stolen from a staff member at Rivendell HQ today. Be on the lookout if you’re in the Bay Area. The Craigslist posting reads:
55cm Rivendell Romulus (Red) stolen from Rivendell
HQ in Walnut Creek. Small canvas bag on back. It’s
a staff member’s bike, not Riv’s. Bad mojo. Bring
it back, call it in, no questions asked. 925-933-7304
some upgradin’.
Update: We’re done. We’re also back this year. Some site design updates will happen and hopefully some reviews, debates and interviews.
I’m taking off blogging for the rest of the year. Reading, and writing. I need a break from the masses of information that I attempt to soak up everyday.
Have a good, safe and fantastic holiday. See you in 2007!
I’m happy totally stoked to announce that in a couple of weeks I will be joining the Flickr team. I’ll be leading interaction design efforts along with George and Stewart; Stewart is still Our Big Boss who wears the Big Hats. Rumor is that my first task will be to finally bring the Tuna Blaster™ product into the public light.
A few months back (nearly six to the day) Stewart put up a help wanted sign, and shortly thereafter we had coffee, or lunch. I can’t quite remember at this point; we did both several times, come to think of it. It took a little while to get some things sorted out inside the Yahoo! Machine, but here we are about to close out 2006, and I couldn’t be more pleased to be joining the team.
Flickr is the only other Online Thing I use on a daily basis besides Firefox and Mail. I’m a fan - a true Flickr nerd. And for those reasons I can’t think of any other place I’d rather think hard about people, products, and the meaningful connections I can make between them.
IDEA 2006, at least in theory, may be the most interesting, useful and innovative conference for Interaction Designers to date. Organized by my colleague from years long gone by, Peter Merholz, IDEA promises to be a thought fest stuffed with presenters from a colorful array of backgrounds. Here is how IDEA opens its web site:
IDEA 2006 brings together a diverse set of designers, creators, and researchers addressing a fundamental challenge we’re facing today - how to let everyday people take true advantage of the overwhelming mass of information that floods their lives.
There are currently many different kinds of folks working in this space, but they typically don’t talk with one another. For this event, we’ve made an effort to invite presenters across a stunning array of disciplines - museum design, information visualization, librarians, environmental design, user research, engineering, interaction design, product strategy, and more.
It’s important to recognize that this is not airy-fairy theoretical stuff. These presenters are practitioners, people actually doing this cross-channel, cross-media work with complex information. A primary goal of this conference is to give you the confidence to cross boundaries and engage with a wide range of problems.
Any time a leader from the United States National Park Service Interpretive Design Center is going to share information about why their materials and experiences are so tightly integrated, I’m all ears. There will be speakers from the BBC, the Seattle Library, Maya Design, and more; Linda Stone and Bruce Sterling are presenting.
Oh, and to top it off, the conference is happening at the new Seattle Library; the ultimate in neoarchitecture information space geekery! Will I see you there?
