“Working with Steve can be brutal, but you get a chance to see firsthand his tremendous eye for detail and the clarity of his vision. Nobody can judge work like Steve can — design, advertising, engineering — you name it, Steve knows, and look out because he’ll tell you. He has got a hierarchy of judgment that’s really pretty simple: at the top is ‘Insanely great’, which is the best in category that you’ll see in your lifetime. Then there’s ‘really, really, really great’, – and he says it packed with emotion – that’s the best that you’ll see this year or maybe this decade. And, there’s ‘shit’, and that’s the entire hierarchy.” (Cooper Journal)

“Lauralee Alben talks with Marc Rettig of Fit Associates about Sea Change Moments – moments that spark a positive, profound, enduring transformation in people, brands, and the world. She also discusses the Sea Change Design Process, which aligns the creative output of an organization with its inner values and intentions. In this age of transformation, Lauralee’s ideas and examples are compelling. She offers a creative, generative method that embraces a whole-system, whole-business point of view while recognizing the necessity of drawing from our deep authentic selves. Enjoy the unusual blend of acumen, experience, heart and spirit in her words.” – (Sustainable Life Media)

“[Kahn] said to me, after a pause, he said “Ricky,” (…) because that’s what he called me, he said “Ricky, even when I get a haircut I’m an Architect”; he said “(…) do whatever interests you.” He gave me permission. And that was like a bag of sand off of my shoulders, and gave me permission to follow my interests.” – (Dan Klyn – Wildly Appropriate)

“(…) I believe our profession is intrinsically good.” – (Liou Yamane – CHI Nederland)

“(…) the major problem is not anymore the amount of computation we have, it’s how we can interact with that computation.” – (Peter Merholz – AP blog)

“How do you get team members to start speaking the same language? Constant communication between the teams. What also works is adopting a common language to describe interactions. The use of design patterns is a powerful way to disseminate common thinking and approaches to common problems. I have been pleasantly surprised when language that design and engineering use to describe certain bad approaches (anti-patterns) gets in-grained even in our product managers vocabulary as well.” – (Louis Rosenfeld – Rosenfeld Media)

An Interview with Amy Jo Kim – “Game mechanics are a collection of tools and systems that an interactive designer can use to make an experience more fun and compelling. Used well, game mechanics make a Web design more engaging, sticky and viral by incentivizing certain behaviors. However, game mechanics are not a panacea: to be effective, the mechanics need to be integral to the experience.” (Joshua Porter – Bokardo)

“I think IA does have a future as a practice – the future of IA may not look like the present or past of IA, but if IA is the practice of the structuring of information for human understanding, well that’s never going to go away.” (Russ Unger – UserGlue)