Author

Bob Jacobson

Bob Jacobson is an experience design consultant in Redwood City, CA, and the editor of Information Design (MIT Press, 1999).

Also from this author

The Devil His Due: What Online Porn Portends

June 01, 2001

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it: Jacobson studies “adult” sites to see what they can tell us about the future of web content. His predictions are not pretty.

Experience Design

August 18, 2000

It’s time for web designers to peek over the cubicle and start sharing ideas with their peers in related design disciplines. Jacobson suggests one way to do that in this overview of the emerging Experience Design paradigm.

Digiglut.com

May 05, 2000

There is just too much stuff out there. Web surfing has turned to web surfeit, as web users and independent content site authors are buried alive in a sea of ever-more-useless crap. Bob Jacobson sifts through the wreckage.