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Searching for my space in the Overlap

by Dirk July 26, 2010

I’ve just returned from three days in New York City attending Overlap10. This is my second Overlap: I was one of the organizers of the original Overlap in 2006. That event so fell short of my hopes for and expectations of it that I avoided returning – at least, until this year. In the last [...]

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I often hate marketers; sometimes they force me to rant

by Dirk June 23, 2010

***UPDATE: After firing off my email and posting here and on Twitter Adam Kurtz, Regional Sales Director, called me personally to apologize and explain the situation that led to the email being sent out. Very professional, and I could feel his pain as the hard-working sales guy seeing his sweat and tears undone. Kudos to [...]

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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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Exploring the Overlap

by Dirk June 30, 2006

Over the Memorial Day weekend now not-so-recently past I participated in The Overlap, an event that I helped organize in Monterey, California. Focused on topics in the overlap between business and design, the event attracted ~40 top thinkers and practitioners in the design space, and precious few participants from business and other fields. First, the [...]

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From Sin City to DCamp: a three day adventure

by Dirk May 15, 2006

I lead a pretty privileged life: I get to do an amazing array of interesting things. So it was this weekend (Thursday-Saturday, close enough!) when I took a day trip to Las Vegas followed by a day-and-a-half at DCamp in Palo Alto. The Vegas trip was all about friendship: my good buddy Tim is getting [...]

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The Interaction Frontiers – July 2005

by Dirk August 16, 2005

I was honoured to be invited to Milano as the keynote speaker for this first-time, projected-to-be-annual event. It was an excellent half-day affair, with uniformly strong presentations, an engaged and interested audience, and a very progressive and upbeat tone. Since I am so late in getting around to reporting this I will let the pictures [...]

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Europe – July 2005

by Dirk August 15, 2005

I spent roughly the first two weeks of July in Europe, and it was a lovely trip. I am blessed to have a variety of good friends, the number of which seem to grow every time I hit the road to spread the gospel of design, experience, and Involution Studios. There were three basic legs [...]

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About Portland – April 2005

by Dirk April 2, 2005

I’m in Portland for five days, in conjunction with CHI/UXnet/DevGroup NW. Last night I gave a variant of my “The Future of Digital Product Design” as part of the Visionary Speaker Series leading up to WebVisions 2005. It was a good evening: I met a lot of interesting people – including Dave Bedingfield, who does [...]

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SXSW 2005 – Austin, Texas

by Dirk March 25, 2005

Last week I participated in SXSWi, presenting a variation of my The Future of Digital Product Design talk, and participating as the subject for a live edition of Design Eye for the Idea Guy with five great designers who are also really good guys: my business partner Andrei Herasimchuk, D. Keith Robinson, Paul Nixon, Cameron [...]

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