All This ChittahChattah 2008, a look back
In 2008 All This ChittahChattah hit our seventh anniversary. Here are some highlights from the past year.
- We found a toilet flusher that comes with a memo, I investigate the bathroom for Core77, and Dan gets trapped in the bathroom.
- I consider the culture of financial traders and then what happens when you don’t take that into account
- In world travels, Die Hard is globalized, appetizingness is culturally constructed, the revolutionary IDEO shopping card is old hat in Japan, I am saluted by a bear, Crocs make an appearance, friction never sleeps, some pictures from Japan here, here, and here, the world tour of donuts, how to say maybe, and Tokyo enjoyment
- I publish a year of my column, True Tales, for interactions: Persona Non Grata, Everybody’s Talkin’ At Me, The Journey Is The Reward, Hold Your Horses, Living In The Overlap, and Some Different Approaches to Making Stuff
- My flickr photos were lost forever and I wrote the obituary
- The nature of art
- Only-in-LA fading kitsch
- Tracking the process of observing cultural artifacts: 1. Bottom Biting Bug and 2. Ayumi Hamasaki
- Dan critiqued an AIGA Gain article about design research
- I’m not the only one who has a mythical mental model for how Netflix processes envelopes
- I’m interviewed by Influx Insights, profiled in a Japanese technology magazine, the Institute of Design student blog, and included in What Insight Does Ethnography Deliver?
- We celebrated Groundhog Day
- Dan reviews talks by Alan Cooper and Stefan Sagmeister
- Body image norms around the world and in Miami
- I notice bananas in London
- A visit to Celebration, Florida
- UPS shoehorns personas into a website user registration and I’m interviewed for a Forrester report on personas.
- A couple of examples of how seemingly simple problems are actually much more complex when it turns that people don’t simply adopt the solutions we’ve decided are best for them: school lunches and banking services
- Tattoos for children as a safety measure
- Advertising imitates art and advertising imitates advertising
- Observational ephemera: the series
- The creative processes of sound designer Ben Burtt and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Untouchable touchscreens, non-interactive kiosks, and advertising forcing functions
- The end of free cookies at Safeway
- The fallacy of measuring innovation
- My keynote from the Design Research Society conference, and my talk Research and Design: Ships in the Night? from User Research Friday
- Dan encounters Cloud Gate
- My workshop on noticing at the Design Research Conference; happiness and noticing; Dan and Steve write about the power of noticing for AIGA Gain
- We contribute to the Stone Cellars wine packaging redesign, new product innovations for BIC, and a new digital recording product for Belkin.
- My chapter was published in Age of Conversation 2
- I’m a guest for Lextant’s Design 40 weekly dialog and featured in a Lunar Design podcast about the speed of innovation and the pace of creativity
- We unearth some old correspondence with Malcolm Gladwell about, well, outliers.