After two days of fast-paced learning and making at our UX Intensive in Amsterdam, our attendees jumped into the deep end of Interaction Design. Here's a few highlights from the day: Chris takes a question from an attendee. Attendees learned how to quickly generate design concepts and how to communicate them effectively. Some tools of the trade. MORE >>

I’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. If you don’t get  this concept, I wish you would. Let me explain. The concept is fairly simple. Then you define what a heading one looks like: bold, font size 14, with space before of 6 pts, and space after of 6 pts, etc. Why use styles? Several reasons. Please, please, use styles. MORE >>

Inspired by today’s TEDTalk from Eduardo Paes , the mayor of Rio? Share your own idea for leading your city into the future, and apply for a $10,000 award to help make it happen! If you have a bold, creative project for your city, apply for one of ten (10) $10,000 awards from the TED Prize to push it forward. Deadline is May 15. The City 2.0 MORE >>

Internet dystopian Andrew Keen , author most recently of Digital Vertigo, has just spoken at TheNextWeb Summit and Conference. . He and his arguments are intensely annoying because his case is blindly and obtusely one-sided, though it is useful to have his voice to provide a counterpoint to digital utopianism. . Crowdsourcing Social trends MORE >>

Guest Post: The Future is Now: Mobile Strategies for Social Impact. By Laura Efurd, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, ZeroDivide. – @lefurd, @zerodivideorg. Pew report released just last week declared that “the rise of mobile is changing the story” about the digital divide.  How can we more effectively strengthen these efforts? MORE >>