Friday, December 23, 2005
2005 Winding Down
Sometimes I have to wonder about starting a blog - there's no easy way to stop! Instead, it seems better to morph from a journal of developing ideas into a more frequent posts of any ideas that catch my interest and have a life of their own. Most of my "personal" ideas are never posted in blog form anyway, since they are either half-formed in journal notes, or I keep working on them till fully formed. So what makes it to the blog?
Note to readers: whoever some of you are, it would be great to know what you think. People have different motivations for blog writing, but any motive involves some kind of readership. I've perhaps pre-conceived the readership of Desigb/Redesign to be from the User Experience community, other product/interaction design or user research people. That's the original framing of the blog, and its fit within what others have done.
But there's a difference between writing for other professionals in my field of work/consulting, and journaling the kinds of ideas that open toward different, interesting futures. In winding down 2005, I notice what I have been writing here, and it reads like I'm editing a professional journal:
KM World Conference, World Usability Day, (and other conferences)
Recaps of Articles that others might not subscribe to:
- Minding your User's Business (interactions)
- Building a User-Centered Organization (UX Magazine)
- Designing from the User's Experience (DMI Bulletin)
And what occurs to me, reviewing the year, is that many UX professionals will have already seen the articles somewhere else. Its a convenient way to share my writing across readerships, but its not sharing much of the new stuff, the wild variety of issues ranging from alternative learning, cognitive engineering approaches to product design, design of information ecologies for professional practice, concept science and IA, ambient intelligence in information work, redesigning education and eLearning for "humane learning," scenario facilitation and organizational decision-making, and embedded values in organizational life as tacit knowledge.
Perhaps its also more useful to throw out more undeveloped ideas and issues and see who connects.
Note to readers: whoever some of you are, it would be great to know what you think. People have different motivations for blog writing, but any motive involves some kind of readership. I've perhaps pre-conceived the readership of Desigb/Redesign to be from the User Experience community, other product/interaction design or user research people. That's the original framing of the blog, and its fit within what others have done.
But there's a difference between writing for other professionals in my field of work/consulting, and journaling the kinds of ideas that open toward different, interesting futures. In winding down 2005, I notice what I have been writing here, and it reads like I'm editing a professional journal:
KM World Conference, World Usability Day, (and other conferences)
Recaps of Articles that others might not subscribe to:
- Minding your User's Business (interactions)
- Building a User-Centered Organization (UX Magazine)
- Designing from the User's Experience (DMI Bulletin)
And what occurs to me, reviewing the year, is that many UX professionals will have already seen the articles somewhere else. Its a convenient way to share my writing across readerships, but its not sharing much of the new stuff, the wild variety of issues ranging from alternative learning, cognitive engineering approaches to product design, design of information ecologies for professional practice, concept science and IA, ambient intelligence in information work, redesigning education and eLearning for "humane learning," scenario facilitation and organizational decision-making, and embedded values in organizational life as tacit knowledge.
Perhaps its also more useful to throw out more undeveloped ideas and issues and see who connects.
