guys,

cool story, sent by the user interface technology manager of symbian, who I am meeting next week for a workshop and a panel discussion. (symbian adopted the GIMP UI brainstorm method, btw).

Begin forwarded message:

You might find the following interesting. Augusten Burroughs is an acclaimed, twisted fiction author.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/garden/22burroughs.html

On a recent afternoon, Mr. Burroughs, lanky and boyish despite the tattoos curling around his forearms, was stretched out on the king-size four-poster bed he has set smack in the middle of the apartment. Draped and swagged in a manner that would please the Libyan dictator, the bed is a sumptuous galleon and office for him. Little seating arrangements ring the tiny room, which he decorated this summer, downloading photos of art, furniture and objects found on 1stdibs, shrinking them to scale and laying them out on a floor plan using Gimp, a Photoshop-like program from Linux, the free operating system that Mr. Burroughs compared with Alcoholics Anonymous: “You can get help from total strangers anywhere in the world.”

--ps

founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture