Folks, It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here… Late in 2009 I left nForm, the user experience consultancy I founded in 2003. It was an amicable parting-the three partners were just ready to tackle different things. Gene Smith remained with the nForm team, Toby Spendiff moved to New Zealand, and I started the [...]

Last year, on the last evening of the 2008 IA Summit in Miami, I invited myself onto Samantha Bailey’s 2009 committee with the stated intention of creating a Business & Strategy track for 2009. Mags Hanley popped over, nominated herself co-chair, and added management to the roster. And with that, the Business Strategy & Management [...]

Warning: politics ahead. You’re welcome to stop reading now. Living in Canada, I’m more of an observer than a participant in the current American contest. I have four siblings living in the US, I’m a US citizen, and if I were to describe my politics, I’d say antipartisan (or maybe jaded). The bickering on both sides, [...]