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Community, Design, and Polish Sausage

If you’ve ever been to Minneapolis, you have probably heard of Nye’s Polonaise Room. It is perhaps the most famous bar in the city, home to a long tradition of live sing-a-longs, gold-flecked vinyl booths that remain somehow perpetually shiny, and most significantly the Ruth Adams Band – an outfit billed as the most dangerous

Touchpoints of User Experience Design, pt. 3 of 4

Part 3 of 4 from the University of Minnesota MinneWebCon presentation, April 14 2008. | View | Upload your own

Integrating Information Architecture, pt. 2

Creative Entropy There is a misconception that collaboration (and creativity in general) is unmanageable because it introduces chaos into a process that is perceived ideally as being orderly. In my experience, entropy is inevitable – whether you engage in an agile, collaborative process or a tightly managed waterfall process. Surrendering to creative entropy is as