In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you ...

Posted by Tim Munson on 25 Mar 2010

... I love what I do. I'm passionate about creating great experiences with next-generation communications technologies. I'm obsessive about crafting clear and compelling language. I'm in love with intelligent, elegant design. I care deeply about this stuff, because I believe there's a lot more to it than writing copy, designing a pretty UI, or developing cool web apps. I think there's much more at stake here. 

Why? I happen to believe that, in a very real sense, we're designing ourselves when we're designing new technologies. Because to be human is, after all, to be technological. In this sense, as Donna Haraway famously wrote, we've always been cyborg creatures of both virtual and real dimensions. Beyond our biology, we're products of our own linguistic, social and material technologies. Our words. Our cultures. The stuff that surrounds us.

Think for a moment about your own daily interactions with information and communications technologies. Your iPhone. The Daily Show. Your car's GPS. Your Gmail. Facebook. And the many other websites and web apps you frequent each day. These technologies reach beyond the digital encoding and delivery of information. They reshape our social networks. They impact our careers. They affect in profound and subtle ways our social interactions, livelihood, moods. Our sense of ourselves. And all are designed experiences.

So, in a broad sense, that's what I'll be writing about here. More specifically, I want to talk about cutting-edge research methods, building brilliant marketing strategies, designing great identities, creating engaging content, and techniques to crafting intelligent, intuitive user experiences. 

I hope you'll get in touch with your own thoughts, suggestions for topics, criticisms and questions. I'd love to hear from you.