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Joseph Lamantia

New York
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www.joelamantia.com

About: I like hot sauce.

Title Senior Principal Consultant
Organization Keane
Your Current Industry Technology Strategy Consulting
Favorite UX Tool or Technique Design Ethnography Hoe-Down

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Improving Our Ethical Choices: Managing the Imp of the Perverse

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Designers interested in the new challenges of ubiquitous computing / ubicomp, ethics, and the future of integrated experiences will enjoy Improving...

Cultural Clouds: A New Kind of Commons?

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There's a lot of buzz about cloud computing in the technology world these days, but I think something much more interesting is the emergence of cul...

Ubiquity and Chrome: Modular Is the New Black

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The recent launches of Ubiquity (Mozilla Labs) and Chrome (Google) show how sexy it is to be modular on the web, from the user experience [Ubiquity...

Frameworks are the Future of IA: A Case Study and Example

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September in Amsterdam approaches: in addition to the inevitable mix of clouds, rain, more rain, and tiny slivers of sunlight, September means Eur...

Ethics and Design Podcast: Part Deux

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The I.A. Podcast (by Jeff Parks of I.A. Consultants and BoxesandArrows podcast fame) just published the second of two interviews discussing researc...

Understanding Juicy Rationalizations: How Designers Make Ethical Choices

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Understanding Juicy Rationalizations, part 3 of the Designing Ethical Experiences series, just went live at UXMatters. Here's the teaser: From "...

Speaking at EuroIA 2008 In Amsterdam

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I'm happy to announce I'm speaking at EuroIA 2008 in Amsterdam, September 26 - 27. My session is titled 'Frameworks Are the Future of IA'. If the...

Obama Crowdsources Election Campaign Funding

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The NYTimes reports today in Obama Opts Out of Public Financing for Campaign that Senator Obama "...raised $95 million in February and March alone...

Ethics and Design Interview Live

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The I.A. Podcast (by Jeff Parks of I.A. Consultants and BoxesandArrows podcast fame) just published the first of two interviews we recorded recentl...

Spring Reading

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The other day, over a hot corned beef sandwich from the 2nd Avenue Deli, someone asked what I'm reading now. As usual, I ended up mumbling a few h...

Does Being Ethical Pay?

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'Companies spend huge amounts of money to be 'socially responsible.' Do consumers reward them for it? And how much?' is the leader for a short piec...

IA Summit Slides: Effective IA For Enterprise Portals

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I've posted slides for my recent Effective IA For Enterprise Portals presentation at the IA Summit in Miami. Portals are not a traditional space f...

3 Questions About the Future State of the Web

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Now that the web is clearly social, what happens when the web becomes emotional? Streams are already under pressure from the technorati as expired...

Designing Ethical Experiences: Some Practical Suggestions Live @ UXMatters

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A quick anouncement: part two of the series on ethics and experience design Designing Ethical Experiences: Some Practical Suggestions, is just live...

New Organizational Architecture & UX Group on Slideshare

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I've just started a new 'Organizational Architecture' group on Slideshare, to explore links to user experience, and questions like these: What i...

The Organizational Architecture of Failure

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The culture, structure, and workings of an organization often pose greater challenges for User Experience practitioners than any technical or desig...

The Organizational Architecture of Failure

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The culture, structure, and workings of an organization often pose greater challenges for User Experience practitioners than any technical or desig...

Hybrids: Architectures For The Ecology of Co-Creation

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Common models for participation in social and contributory media invariably set 'content creators' - the group of people who provide original mater...

Discount Code For Rosenfeld Media

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Use the discount code FOJOEL10 to receive 10% off Rosenfeld Media books purchased online. Everyone loves a bargain!

Discount Code For Rosenfeld Media

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Use the discount code FOJOEL10 to receive 10% off Rosenfeld Media books purchased online. Everyone loves a bargain!

New Books: 'Tagging' and 'Mental Models'

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If you're interested in tagging and social metadata, social bookmarking, or information management, be sure to check out Gene Smith's Tagging: Peop...

User Experience and the Security State: JetBlue's New Terminal

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The design of JetBlue's new terminal at JFK as reported in the NY Times is a good example of the intersection of user experience design, and the sp...

Video of My BlogTalk Presentation

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Video of my BlogTalk presentation 'What happens when everyone designs social media? Practical suggestions for handling new ethical dilemmas' is ava...

"Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience" Live at Boxes and Arrows

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Boxes and Arrows just published Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience, part 5 of the building blocks series that's been running since last ...

"Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience" Live at Boxes and Arrows

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Boxes and Arrows just published Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience, part 5 of the building blocks series that's been running since last ...

IA Summit Talks on Ethics, Experience Design, Social Networks

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Thanks to Facebook's public mistakes and apology to those affected by Beacon , as well as a number of other ham-handed attempts to monetize the so...

Blogtalk 2008 slides available

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My slides from Blogtalk 2008 are available online now: I went through a lot of ideas quickly, so this is a good way to follow along at your own pac...

'Designing Ethical Experiences: Social Media and the Conflicted Future' is live at UXMatters

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UXMatters just published part 1 of a two part series I'm writing on ethics and design titled, Designing Ethical Experiences: Social Media and the...

Spring Speaking: BlogTalk 2008 & The IA Summit

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Quick update on spring conferences: I'm speaking at Blogtalk 2008 in Cork (Ireland) February , and the 2008 IA Summit in Miami (SOBE - it's sort of...

Dawdlr: Slow Media?

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In a world that's moving so fast it's hard to keep track of when you are, let alone where, there's a need for experiences that move at more relaxed...

The DIY Future: What Happens When Everyone Is A Designer?

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I'm posting the abstract for my closing talk at the Italian IA Summit, as well as the slides, below. Hope you enjoy! Abstract: Broad cultural, ...

Connectors for Dashboards and Portals Live on BoxesandArrows.com

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Boxes and Arrows just published Part 4 of the Building Blocks series, Connectors for Dashboards and Portals. We're into the home stretch of the ...

EuroIA Presentations and Proceedings Available

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All (well, almost all) of the EuroIA Summitpresentations and proceedings are available online now. If you couldn't make the conference, then defin...

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Joseph Lamantia:

Hey Valeska - See you there!

Valeska O'Leary:

Hi Joe, still at Keane? It will be interesting to put a face to the name even long after Kathy Kneram' conf calls.