bplusd

Some people have wondered a little about this blog, and me, the principal author. I’m the founder of nForm User Experience, a small but focused Canadian consulting company with mostly local but a few North American clients. I co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, where I currently serve on the Board of Directors. I’ve been interested in business and design in a formal way since Don Norman’s CHI 99 riff (1.8mb PDF) gelled certain things for me. I’ve started to articulate some ideas around value-centered design in response to working with Lou Rosenfeld on different models of IA and user experience, but it still feels like hand waving sometimes.

I started working on bplusd after attending the Rotman Business Design conference in January 2005…and have taken far too long to push something out the door. There are still a lot of things missing, but things will come along…future plans: guest authors, more cohesive articles, del.icio.us links. Bigger picture aspirations? I’m hoping to find the pragmatism in design thinking - I worry about jargon overdoses, the balance between thinking and doing, theory and methods, talking and case studies. I’m hoping to gel my own ideas, and grow as a practitioner and a contributor to practice. Most of all, I’m looking forward to taking part in the business and design conversation, instead of watching it scroll by in my aggregator. Thanks for dropping by.

(Update: thanks to Keith for catching the typo in the first URL)

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