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The unchecked flow of oil

by Dirk June 6, 2010

It may be years or even decades before the full impact of the BP oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico is fully understood. Remember what a disaster the Exxon Valdez was? This is many, many, many times worse. As in an estimated 40-50 times worse – and counting. Not only that, it is [...]

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The names must change

by Dirk July 13, 2009

Thanks to the Internet, it is an inevitability that we will drastically change the way we name our children. Why? Try Googling even a semi-common name. There are hundreds, nay, thousands of results. Each of us wants to be relatively unique and special. We want our children to be relatively unique and special. In the [...]

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Why I don’t use Google to “Google” anymore

by Dirk April 10, 2008

Today it hit me that I rarely use search engines to find information anymore. The specific example is a little embarrassing: I was looking over the days’ headlines and read, “No ‘Secret’: CBS cans show after one episode” next to a picture of former Star Trek actor George Takei. This jogged my memory about a [...]

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Remember when…

by Dirk August 30, 2006

…I wrote a seemingly outlandish article about Google buying Apple? Well, the full-blown acquisition may never happen, but yesterday Google CEO Eric Schmidt was added to the Apple Board of Directors. Suddenly, the thesis for hooking up Google and Apple seems a lot more reasonable.

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Design Futures

by Dirk August 23, 2006

Originally published atLukeW In July 2006, a group of designers with nearly 50 cumulative years of experience designing products for companies like Apple, eBay, Macromedia, Nike, Palm, and Yahoo got together to talk about the future of design. We weren’t looking to predict what’s next but instead to discuss the patterns and trends affecting the [...]

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Deconstructing the Mobile Web

by Dirk May 8, 2006

Originally published at UXmatters The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the mobile Web is largely overplayed hype—the clumsy extrapolation of the behavior and use of a basic set of interfaces from one environment to another incompatible one. As a result of this broken mental model of mobile computing, we [...]

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Yahoo! = Wal-Mart

by Dirk March 10, 2006

Even though I’ve largely been out of the branding business for a few years, my mind still deconstructs companies and products from the perspective of a brand strategist. One of the typical exercises in the process of branding a company or product is one of making associations between your company or client and existing, iconic [...]

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Living La Vida Virtual: interfaces of the near future

by Dirk December 19, 2005

Originally published at UXmatters Personal computing is in an awkward adolescence right now. On one hand, we are rapidly moving into ubiquitous computing environments that let people constantly interact with the omnipresent network; on the other, the devices and interfaces we are using to enter these new frontiers provide woefully inadequate user experiences. Let’s take [...]

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Clearing the idea box

by Dirk November 17, 2005

So rather than just saying “I’m too busy to write!” I’m going to empty my burgeoning idea box. Some of these go back 6 months. I’d love to develop each of them into a longer post if not an essay or article, but to get some traction here and clear my head, I’m just dumping [...]

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Data: the essence of a digital lifestyle

by Dirk November 3, 2005

Originally published at UXmatters I’ve been thinking a lot about metadata recently, but not from the standpoint of XML or programming or helping to organize and index data. My interest is in the future of content ownership, delivery, and value. I see a future for media that looks very different from the media of today. [...]

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