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| People | Places | Forums | Books | Quotes People Alan Cooper - for his contribution to interaction design Alan Quarry - more coach than CEO Bill Buxton - for insight into design Bob Barlow Busch - for his ability to engage an audience David Kelly - for the IDEO story Donald Norman - a forefather of user centered design Glen Drummond - for pushing out the limits of my strategic thinking Jaime Fox - a truly talented artist in so many ways JK Rowling - for storytelling en masse Larry Smith - for opening my eyes to the power of economics Lance Armstrong - for determination and excellence in the face of adversity Pierre Brunet - MacGyver as a mentor, for so many ways that he could make it work. Rex Xu - compatriot designer Richard Hoshino - for inpiring and believing in his students Places ACM-SIGCHI Apple Cooper IDEO IDSA Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Museum of Modern Art - NYC MIT Media Lab Research in Motion Quarry Integrated Communications Forums Boxes and Arrows CORE 77 IxDG OK-Cancel Books Art of Innovation - IDEO David Kelly Built to Last - James Collins, Jerry Porras Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman Experience Design 1 - Nathan Sherdof Inmates are Running the Assylum - Alan Cooper Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Simplicity Shift - Scott Jensen Who Says Elephants Can't Dance - Lou Gershner On my reading list: Blink - Malcolm Gladwell Extra Spatial - IDEO Good to Great - Jim Collins Leonardo's Laptop - Ben Shneiderman The Human Factor - Kim Vicente The Invisible Computer - Donald Norman Thoughtless Acts - Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Quotes "I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious" - Albert Einstein "Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein "Play is the highest form of research" - Albert Einstein "Fundamentally, technology is an extension of the stick" - Karen Holtzblatt "Practice is the best of all instructors" - Publius Syrus "There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit" - sign on the desk of Ronald Reagan "Whether you intend to or not, you are always designing an experience" - Glen Drummond "Life isn't about the number of breaths you take but moments that take your breath away" Will Smith - Hitch "There will come an end to the time of warriors, but there will always be a need for heroes" - Anon "There's more to life than watching other people live it" - Alan Arkin - Hitch "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead |
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