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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		User-centered design... in the SF Chronicle? Posted on 01/08/2002. Well shut my mouth. Smart product design has been written up in the usually laughable San Francisco Comical. This article discusses the development of Handspring's Treo, with a number of paragraphs devoted to the design ethnography that went into researching mobile devices. Could San Francisco be getting a decent local paper? I'm not holding my breath... 1 comment so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "It's Biopic Madness!" Next entry: "Words, words, words." Comments: COMMENT #1 I also posted something in my blog about this article. See http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/2002_01_06_crocolyle_archive.html#8484729 Lyle p.s. Hey Peter, how about adding my blog to your "surf" list? Hopefully you took my post about you in the Lord of the Rings as humorous. (?) http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/2001_12_16_crocolyle_archive.html#8101616 Posted by Lyle @ 01/08/2002 07:02 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.