Win a Free Copy of “Contextual Design”

We’re running a contest on Twitter that we hope you’ll find fun. Here’s what you need to do: Tweet about what you think is the single most helpful design principle. If you had to choose just one principle that you could get all those non-designer...

Come See Us at CHI

We’re looking forward to attending the CHI 2010 conference next week and have a variety of exciting things planned. First, we’ll be leading a SIG, “Understanding Cool,” on Monday, April 12th, from 2:30-4:00. In this session, we’ll be...

Front End Zen

I like paradoxes.  I even like the word “paradox”.  It’s just so delicious – things that taken apart must be true but taken together cannot be true.  So like life. There is a lot that is paradoxical about innovation – especially about new product development.  One...

Designing Services

The fun thing about being a consultant is that you get to work with lots of different teams and lots of different companies. And that means you get to work on very different types of problems.  With that in mind, let me tell you about my week. I was coaching a firm...

Executing in the Fuzzy Front End

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with writing.   Don’t get me wrong, I love it more than I hate it. It’s just that I invariably have a hard time getting started.  I sit down and usually struggle – there are so many ideas, and they all seem to...

InContext is Hiring

InContext Design is looking for energetic and talented Interaction Designers and User Researchers (we call them “Work Practice Designers”) for our locations in Boston and Chicago. Read here for more information and instructions to apply. [Link removed on...