Favorite books
My top ten all-time best book is “The Rabbi’s cat” by Joann Sfar. The story is beautiful, sublime, evolved - the character of the cat so well-developed that the reader completely forgets he is a cat. And the humour is so elegantly woven into the script. This is the best book I have read in 2008. Read an excerpt here.
The second book in this list would be The Donjon series by Lewis Trondheim. The series is wild and funny, centered around a duck who runs a dungeon which is really an amusement park.
The next series I love, is Monsieur Jean by Depuy and Berberian. Just simple stories of Monsieur Jean going about his daily life, watched over by his evil landlady and streams of girlfriends; but so lovable. Depuy and Berberian also wrote the Henrietta series, which I am quite fond of, as well. This is a rare interview with them in English.
Henrietta
(images from duber.net & lambiek.com)
Raymond Briggs is poignant, funny and original, and another favorite author of mine, with his books The Snowman, Ethel and Ernest, When the wind blows, and Father Christmas. Most of his stories are (auto)biographical in nature. From Magicpencil:
His characterisation of his Father Christmas is based on his father, a milkman – ’I knew something about the working conditions of people who have to deliver things, and I could imagine what a hell of a job that was – freezing, cold, lonely, unsociable hours – enough to make anyone a bit grumpy’. His parents also influenced the character of Jim and Hilda, the victims of nuclear fallout in When The Wind Blows.
Read another interview here.
Next: More Graphic novel goodies!
Experience Design Manifesto
An experience designer must love and care about people and the world in which we all live. It’s his mission in the world to proudly spread love and happiness through his creations.
A must-read for every “UX” designer: The Experience Design Manifesto
Aurora - A concept video by Adaptive Path
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
How to be a UX team of one
An awesome presentation by Leah of Adaptive Path.
So you want to do UI Design?
Last sunday I was invited to give a talk to the students at IILM Gurgaon, about UI Design.
(right click and click Save link to download the presentation)
PS: why can’t I embed a ppt in wordpress?
Our cell phones, ourselves - Jan Chipchase on technology
At TED, Jan Chipchase (who works for Nokia research) talks about the ways we interact with technology. his research in the last 5 years has been about what people carry and why they do that; about users in developing countries using mobile phones in a variety of innovative ways; how illiterate people use their mobile phones or manage their contacts and identities and how the mobile will play a part in the economics of the future. Watch the video here.
