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Video of Dan Saffer’s talk “Tap is the New Click” at IxDA NYC

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Design, Events, User Experience

In September, I posted my notes from Dan Saffer‘s fantastic talk “Tap is the New Click” at the monthly IxDA NYC event. R/GA, the hosts, filmed and edited a video of the presentation, which has now been made available on Vimeo. If you are interested in gestural interfaces or designing kiosks, tablets, or any non-keyboard-and-mouse [...]

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NY Tech Meetup — January 2009

January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Community, Events, Twitter

Last night was the first NY Tech Meetup of 2009 and the first meetup since Nate Westheimer became the new organizer last month. I thought it was a huge success. For the first time, at least since I’ve been attending, it had a theme: “Built on Twitter” — the seven presenters all have created products [...]

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Nate Westheimer is the next organizer of NY Tech Meetup

December 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events

Here are the results of the 2008 election for the next organizer of the NY Tech Meetup: A big congratulations to Nate Westheimer for his landslide victory. And a loving kudos to my friends Sanford Dickert and Oz Sultan for all their efforts. Can’t wait to see what Nate will do in the new year. [...]

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Where’s Whit

December 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events

The New York tech scene is bustling and I’m out and about almost every night of the week. Gary’s Guide, run by the lovely Gary Sharma a.k.a. Guy with Red Tie, is a great way to keep an eye out for what’s happening around town. But wanna know where I’ll be? Now I’ve embedded my [...]

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“Web Navigation Design” Workshop with James Kalbach

November 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Events

On Tuesday I attended James Kalbach‘s one-day workshop on “Web Navigation Design” organized by Smart Experience, a small independent design school run by Victor Lombardi. The workshop took place in a conference room at the lovely Center for Architecture on LaGuardia Place in Manhattan. Victor invited me to attend the sold out workshop, and I’m [...]

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