This photo was taken a couple of weeks before Christmas; I was standing at a bus-stop across the road from this woman who was dressed in vivid colours, dancing and jingling her bucket in time to a boombox blasting boppy Christmas music at an intersection. I was immensely impressed by her success rate. She would [...]
Categories: communications,design,non-profits,user experience
Tagged: experience design, fundraising
I spent a good part of today at INIS’ first Project Columbus event on Transmedia Storytelling. To those of us who live and breathe the web, and who have grown up with the cacophony of various media all going at the same time, “transmedia storytelling” seems like a fancy name for an experience that we [...]
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One of the side effects of running UXMTL, a growing local community forum for Montrealers interested in UX design, is that I’d often get asked: “Know a good information architect?” “Who’s the top UI person in town?” “Do you know an amazing UX person I can hire?” I find myself employing a favourite answer of [...]
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A little over three weeks ago when I happened to be in Barcelona, my friend Professor Carlos Scolari snagged me for a guest appearance in one of his classes. I hadn’t done an “unlecture” before — being technically on holiday and it being a last-minute arrangement — I came armed with my brain and not [...]
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Many discussions surrounding the evolution the book revolve around the impending doom of the bricks-and-mortar store as it loses out to the online experience — where our measure of “online bookstore” is unmistakably Amazon, followed by mega-bookstores like Barnes and Noble. A new brood of e-readers recently released at CES heats up the conversation that [...]
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