Sketchnotes 2011

Recently, my colleague Jerome Domurat showed me this bound collection of Eva-Lotta Lamm’s sketchnotes and I was pleased to be reminded of the beautiful one-pager she did of my “Playful Design” talk from UX Lisbon:

Christian Crumlish: Playful Design at UXLX, a photo by evalottchen on Flickr.

'Leonardo' talk featured in August 2011 IA Institute Newsletter

The IA Institute reports that they added the slides and video from my keynote at the Italian IA Summit to the institute’s library, in the latest issue of the monthly IA Institute Newsletter.

We are all Leonardo now (live) (recorded)

Video of my keynote presentation at this year’s Italian Information Architecture Summit in Milan is available on the event’s website (Video | Summit Italiano di Architettura dell’Informazione).

As it’s hosted on Vimeo, I’ll also embed it right here:

(V° Summit Architettura dell’Informazione – 1 from Italian IA Summit on Vimeo.)

I previously posted the slides from this talk under the heading My keynote from the Italian IA Summit.

UX Lisbon notes in Usability Talks

Claudia Oster took some keen notes and a posted a few great photos from the morning half of the main day at UX Lisbon this year, including a brief write-up of my talk, Playful Design, at Usability Talks.

Johnny Holland picks up on my call for tuneable experiences

Renowned interaction design zine Johnny Holland reported on my keynote at UX Lisbon, writing, in UX LX: Day Three

Moving on to playing in the musical design — he believes we can turn our users into maestros, as an expert Illustrator user is much like a musician! — Crumlish provided a range of analogies (frameworks set up the rules, you need a bit of chaos for creativity, as in jazz). However, for me, his utterly inspired point was that of creating tunable experiences: “You don’t need to create a perfect experience, but instead one that’s tunable.”

Didoo's Area Web Portfolio

A brief write-up in Italian of my keynote address from the Italian Summit, “We Are All Leonardo Now,” appears in Didoo’s Area Web Portfolio.

Designing Interfaces, second edition (by Jenifer Tidwell)

In Chapter 9 of the long-awaited new edition of Tidwell’s seminal Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, she includes a kind shout-out to Designing Social Interfaces (on page 394, “What This Chapter Does Not Cover”).

Perpetual Prototype

Neil MacDonald reviews Designing Social Interfaces at his site Perpetual Prototype: An Information Architecture Blog, writing

If you are considering designing a site with social features, this book is a must read.

WIRED

Web Semantics: Information Architecture of Social Experience Design (Beyond the Beyond), Bruce Sterling likes me, he really likes me!(following from Mark Vanderbeeken’s Putting People First, itself picking up on a link from InfoDesignabout the ASIS&T bulletin article) …subsequently echoed by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing

Ribbit

Get to the Point (Ribbit Developer Platform), Brendan Lee reflects on Overlap