Michael Cummings is a silicon valley-based software user experience designer dedicated to improving people's capacities, abilities, and experience of life via interactive media. Michael is currently Senior Interaction Designer at Wells Fargo, in San Francisco CA (U.S.A).
Cummings, Michael (2009). Information Architecture. Retrieved 23 March 2012 from Interaction-Design.org: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/information_architecture.html
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
-- Charles Mingus
Authoritative overview of Social Computing by Tom Erickson - veteran researcher at IBM Research Lab. It includes 9 HD videos filmed in Copenhagen and commentaries by renowned designers/researchers like Elizabeth Churchill from Yahoo! and Andrea Forte
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