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History of the Button
Exploring the history of interaction design by recording the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond.
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Apr 28, 2008Pulse of PDX
Announcing: I've evolved "History of the Button" into "Push. Click. Touch." Check it out! http://www.pushclicktouch.com
Oct 25, 2007xocea
Glad I hit this instead of the PRG party. Venue: W+K(sweeeeet), attendees: 300+ design and technology folk....18 speakers, 5 minutes each, slides change every 15 seconds. Speakers handled subjects ranging from social software evolution and the history of the button, to lighter subjects like the virtues of keeping chickens and a primer on unicycling.
It [...]
Oct 22, 2007Neighborhood Notes
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.For more information on Ignite, please take a look at the O'Reilly Ignite site.
For now, just think of Ignite Portland as the brainchild of Josh Bancroft, Dawn Foster, Raven Zachary, Todd Kenefsky and a whole bunch more cool smart Portland geeks. We're looking to bring a twist to the same old conference format that you're used to. It's cool. It's fun.
See the Ignite Portland Constitution for some of the values and criteria that we follow, and this post for some of the background and ideas that inspired Ignite Portland to begin with.
Thursday, October 25th, 6-9pm
Wieden+Kennedy
FREE
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from the History of the Button feed...Interaction08 ended a few days ago and I'm still recovering from the firehose of information, inspiration, community and general yay, not to mention the excess of fried food and meats and the dearth of sleep.
This was no question the best professional conference I have ever attended.
Seriously. The conference committee just simply nailed it, in their [...]
Feb 12, 2008
You can find the slides of my Interaction08 presentation at my new side site, The Language of Interaction. When I get my hands on the audio, I'll stitch them together for a slidecast. Also there is the text (and PDF) of the handout that I distributed with the talk.
In all, it was an overwhelming experience. [...]
Feb 7, 2008
Finally, after months of waiting, Interaction08 begins tomorrow. The first conference focusing strictly on interaction design and put together by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
The lineup looks great, a lot of friends are attending, and the weather looks beautiful. All set for a wonderful weekend. And I'm proud to be speaking on Saturday.
If you'll [...]
Jan 28, 2008
Lately I've been thinking about a topic closely related to the history of the button, the language of interaction. The history of the button itself is the story of how our standard interaction lexicon came to be, the back story behind the words and icons and colors that we take for granted when we use [...]
Jan 22, 2008
Yet more clues of seeing how the button was incorporated into the culture.
Check out these lyrics from "Push de Button" from the Broadway musical "Jamaica," by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. 1957. Sung by Lena Horne.
Push de button,
Up de elevator,
Push de button,
Out de orange juice.
Push de button,
From refrigerator
Come banana shortcake and frozen goose.
...Push de button,
Out [...]