The site for Uproot, the interactive design and development firm run by myself and Adam Slayer, is live. Take a look at http://getuproot.com. You should also follow us on Twitter and Facebook

I don’t post a lot about redesigns or Microsoft (or their affiliates) but I stumbled across this preview of the new MSN.com I’m usually the last to say this about anything Microsoft but, from an information architecture perspective, it isn’t quite bad at all. It’s easy to visually parse and it strips our a lot [...]

For the upcoming Wired issue, Khoi Vinh and a couple of his crew from NYTimes.com put their spin on Craigslist. Just don’t call it a redesign: Any truly serious redesign of Craigslist would inherently look very different from what we produced, and we kept that in mind from the very beginning. And, yes we took [...]

Kieth Lang at UI & Us tells a story of how rounded rectangles, a shape very common in Apple’s software and hardware design, took off. The primary players in this story are graphics developer Bill Atkinson, a parking sign and Steve Jobs. Steve took Bill on a walk, pointing out the ubiquity of rounded rectangles [...]

The biggest announcement from today’s WWDC conference isn’t new MacBooks or Snow Leopard, it’s the ability for hardware accessories to communicate directly with software on your iPhone. This means finding, reserving and unlocking a ZipCar with your phone. Or doing blood-glucose monitoring on the spot. The possibilities are endless.

Here’s an hommage to newspapers in a way. Really Interesting Group’s “Things Our Friends Have Written On the Internet”. Via thishappened.org

I’m back from Vancouver and posting my recaps of IxDA’s Interaction 09 conference on the Teehan+Lax blog. Enjoy. Oh, and a word about Vancouver: Go.

Headed over to Vancouver for IxDA’s Interaction ’09 this weekend where I’ll be attending workshops and keynotes about the cutrent state, future and practices of my discipline. Follow my posts on the Teehan+Lax blog or via Twitter @derekvaz. I’ll try to keep the posts less technical and more about how IxD is shaping the world [...]

ImageSpark officially goes live today. This is one of the most creative and fun projects I’ve had the chance to work on. What started as a simple idea – to store, share and discover inspirational imagery – evolved over some long weeks (and weekends) into the site you see now. Though the ImageSpark team was [...]

Another great interactive graphic from the New York Times, this one entitled How the Government Dealt With Past Recessions Keynesian economic policies seem to be a hot topic now as analysts discuss the Obama administration’s plan to reboot the US economy through deficit spending and a delay on proposed tax hikes.