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The nib cursor , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . I love my iPad, but the finger-only interface has been a continuing frustra...

Anatomy of a smart thing , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . In his book Smart Things , Mike Kuniavsky quotes a Scientific American a...

Metaphor , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . In his book Smart Things , Mike Kuniavsky suggests metaphor as a tool for thinki...

Ubicomp Sketchbook , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . In a recent post titled Ubuquitous Service Design , Peter Morville rai...

Nancy Duarte is the founder of Duarte Design, one of the world’s leading presentation design companies. She just published a new book on sto...

Here's a sneak peek at my upcoming workshop "Visual Thinking for User Experience" which I'll be giving at UI15 (Boston,...

I have a big announcement to make today. Effective this morning, XPLANE is joining the Dachis Group , the world’s leading social business...

Dave Gray-Knowledge Games:  A Grammar for Creativity and Innovation from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo .

The design philosophy of the AK-47 , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . In a recent roundup of thoughts from the Interaction 10 confere...

I got these questions in an email interview by Garrick Gibson recently, and, since I get asked these things fairly often, I thought I would...

ExcerptOSSSabotageManual , originally uploaded by @bfchirpy . Thanks @bfchirpy for this little gem. How many of us have engaged in...

When you make the complicated simple, you make it better. But when you make the complex simple, you make it wrong. Read more: how games can ...

Empathy map , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . Just posted over on the Knowledge Games blog about Empathy mapping . Enjoy!

Mr. Fixit , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane . Reason is a dangerous, two-edged sword. It can be seen as Newtonian thinking in ...