“The Palo Alto firm Ideo may be best known for designing eye-catching objects — the Apple mouse, the Palm V, Nike sunglasses, Oral-B’s Squish Grip toothbrush for kids. But there are lesser-known groups in the company working on things that are harder to wrap your head — much less your hands — around. Ideo has studios that include disciplines as far afield as architecture, cognitive psychology, interior design, cultural anthropology and even linguistics. And these groups are designing environments, services and experiences. These teams are taking the firm’s core strength — a deep understanding of how people really use things — and applying it to a variety of design challenges from hospital walls to HTML pages.”

“‘I finally thought, to hell with it, I might as well do something I enjoy, so I started working on a comic called Lloyd Llewellyn just for fun,” he continues. “I drew this story off the top of my head in a way it could never be reprinted — it was full-color and really lavish — but when I finished it I thought, I’m not gonna just sit around with this. So I looked to see who the interesting comics publishers were, and decided to send it to Fantagraphics. A week later I got a call from [publisher] Gary Groth, who said, ‘We’d love to give you your own monthly comic.’ That call changed everything for me and was the best moment of my life.’”

“This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest. If you want to understand what we’ve done, we offer different recommendations, depending on the degree to which you suffer from information overload…”

“The comparison is based on both fileformat specifications Macromedia Flash and SVG… Please note that this a comparison for people dealing with integrated dynamic content generation systems. We are aware, that both .SWF and .SVG have their particular advantages/disadvantages — in some parts they are concurrencing each other, in some not.”

“The Palo Alto firm Ideo may be best known for designing eye-catching objects — the Apple mouse, the Palm V, Nike sunglasses, Oral-B’s Squish Grip toothbrush for kids. But there are lesser-known groups in the company working on things that are harder to wrap your head — much less your hands — around. Ideo has studios that include disciplines as far afield as architecture, cognitive psychology, interior design, cultural anthropology and even linguistics. And these groups are designing environments, services and experiences. These teams are taking the firm’s core strength — a deep understanding of how people really use things — and applying it to a variety of design challenges from hospital walls to HTML pages.”

“If you attended the first Information Architecture Summit, you might remember Seth as one of the main rabble-rousers; he really got many of the librarians present all hot and bothered by his comments on how overrated information organization actually is. After time at marchFirst and ZEFER, Seth is now enjoying his new role as the ACIA’s southeast Asia correspondent. He also squeezes in some user experience consulting when he can, drawing from experience working for such clients as AltaVista, Tower Records, and National Geographic. In this interview Seth has a lot of important stuff to say, especially about which information architecture metrics are good and which aren’t…”

“The comparison is based on both fileformat specifications Macromedia Flash and SVG… Please note that this a comparison for people dealing with integrated dynamic content generation systems. We are aware, that both .SWF and .SVG have their particular advantages/disadvantages — in some parts they are concurrencing each other, in some not.”