Know Thy User: The Role of Research in Great Interactive Design

By David Sherwin - September 30, 2012

At the recent HOW Interactive Design Conference in Washington DC, I gave a presentation called "Know Thy User: The Role of Research in Great Interactive Design." This 30-minute high-level talk was intended to provide conference attendees with repeatable processes that will help them integrate user research into their interactive projects. Other presenters at the conference went more in-depth into some of the methods mentioned in this talk, but I felt that it was important for attendees to understand the role of specific methods and activities within the research process on any design project.

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Where the Roads Become Rivers

By David Sherwin - March 6, 2012

The following reflections and photographs I captured in the margins of a recent trip to Bangladesh for a client project.

The rules of the road? There are no rules. Riding in a fast-moving car, the freeway is a fat, pulsing vein, and we are but one blood cell swirling through the body called Dhaka.

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