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Information Graphics Course

May 06, 2010 |

This Saturday at 11am, I will be co-hosting an event at basekamp for planning a class about Information Graphics. This course is intended to gather UX professionals and interested parties in a group setting to explore Information Graphics. This planning session is open to the public and is meant to help facilitate a syllabus for this course. We will be looking at graphics that help communicate ideas, maps, graphics for the UX community, and abstractions of information (to name a few topics).

This course will be hosted through The Public School - Philadelphia, a community based education platform for self-organizing courses.

Sign up:
Go to the course page create a username and password and select "+ i'm interested"

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May 8th
11am-12pm

Basekamp
723 chestnut st, 2nd floor
philadelphia, pa 19106 usa

Skype: contact me @ henkenbean during the timeslot.

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Sketchy UX

May 04, 2010 | , ,

Ring the Clouds

May 02, 2010 | ,

Collectively cluttered, we cluster
around the sound of three.

I love it when you fluster
around the town with me.

I'm here, you know.
Don't fear, you know.
We huddle, we dawdle, we feel.

You and your dog,
me and my tree:
We sing. We dance. We swing.

I can be up and down,
singing and loud and free.

So come around,
sing aloud,
and ring the clouds with me.

User Experience Design

April 22, 2010 |

User Experience design diagram (from uxdesign.com).

Get Curious - Philly Contact Collective

April 19, 2010

Presentation of the Philly Contact Collective peice "Get Curious" on February 8th, 2010 at Plays and Players. Photo credit Bill Herbert.

Recent Sketches

April 19, 2010 | ,

Welcome to the new site, :)

April 18, 2010

I finally got this site up and running. There were a number of problems getting it up over the last couple days. I hope this is good to go now. Enjoy! I will be uploading some sketches here soon.

-Henken

Almost launch time!

March 22, 2010 |

I am so close to launch time. I know no one can read this yet, but its going to be a great improvement to my old site. I have been working in drupal with Scott from Basekamp for a few months now, getting my head around the new way of making sites. I was really frustrated at first with drupal, but now I think all the customization you can achieve is pretty nice. I do hope they fix some UI features in the Drupal 7, but its been a good time. Hope you enjoy the new site :) .

Notecard from Baltimore.

March 15, 2010 |

I found this card by XS (a sushi restaurant in Mount Vernon, Baltimore).

Side 1
Refletary (maybe reflect on) our lives.
Reconsider your motivations. You are powerless before the love.
Thank you Thank you. You are the greatest audience in the world. I love this town. You are doomed.

Side 2
Oblivion is all you are If there’s some left for you
you don’t mind if you do.
Cheers
Might as well face it you’re addicted to love (till solo)
Let Ute’s tasty locks be like an intention to you. Your unwillingness to admit your own interior weakness is unacceptable. Your blood will not be on my hands. submit

From here I can see the sky.

March 15, 2010 |
The google maps street view of the a location in Philadelphia that I happened upon when looking for the address of my destination.