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Dirk’s Notes, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution

by Dirk August 16, 2010

“Dirk’s Notes” captures and shares insights and interesting bits I draw from the books I read. Thanks to the magic of e-readers I am not only reading more but preserving my thoughts in the process. These segments will give you a summation of the book while sharing my personal explorations through and extrapolations of the [...]

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Rosenfeld Media’s first publications

by Dirk March 25, 2008

One of the things I’m currently involved with is the Advisory Board for Rosenfeld Media, Lou Rosenfeld’s user experience publishing company. Besides giving me another opportunity to work on something with Lou, which is always a good thing, I’m working on the AB with a group of really smart people. So it goes that, after [...]

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Rosenfeld Media: a burgeoning user experience powerhouse

by Dirk March 14, 2007

One of the many things I’m involved with is Rosenfeld Media, the user experience publishing company founded by Lou Rosenfeld in 2005. For those of you who don’t know Lou, he’s as good as it gets. Passionate, dedicated, smart and humble, he’s a close professional colleague who I wish lived in my neck of the [...]

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Rainy November round-up

by Dirk November 13, 2006

Recently back from the St. Louis User Experience (STLUX) Conference and feeling unabashed bliss at the prospect of spending the next six weeks comfortably here at my Silicon Valley home. A number of quick hits about myriad recent happenings: * I really enjoyed STLUX. Being a regional (as opposed to a national) conference, it introduced [...]

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My first foreword

by Dirk February 15, 2006

I recently had the chance to see a foreword that I’d written for a book that is now officially in print. I’ve seen plenty of things that came from my own hand in print, but to be asked to provide this content for someone else’s vision is a pretty humbling and exciting experience! The book [...]

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More nuggets from Stan Lee

by Dirk August 11, 2005

Lots of surprising little tidbits from Stan Lee that are relevant to me and I think will be to much of my readership: * Stan liked to hire the best talent, give them a rough starting point, then stand back and give them a wide berth to create and execute. He said that was the [...]

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What do comic books and complex digital products have in common?

by Dirk August 11, 2005

Watching (really, listening to) Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters & Marvels while doing some paperwork. It is marginally interesting, but required for me as a shameful Kevin Smith completist. And as they are talking about the creation of comic books, I’m struck by how similar that process is to every formal design project: similar to the [...]

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Tell Me Why

by Dirk November 14, 2004

I was reading at a really early age; before pre-school, certainly. I would have to ask my mom to figure out how young. But in the late pre-school period my parents bought me a series of books – Tell Me Why More Tell Me Why Still More Tell Me Why. Those might not be the [...]

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Sam on the Jolly Blue

by Dirk November 14, 2004

This was my favorite book as a wee one. My dad went up to a bookstore in Ann Arbor. I don’t remember what for. I went along. I don’t remember the day at all, but my booty was this new book – Sam on the Jolly Blue. It was the story of a gentle fisherman [...]

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