As part of my classes, students are asked to evaluate news paper article for information relating to Product Design, Conceptual Design, Interaction Design, and Interface Design. Their work is shared publicly via this site.

• Ben Chao
• Brent Michael Gannetta
• Annie Hayward
• Joseph Lukasiewicz
• Georgina Sattler
• Jyothi Srinath
• Linda Steinberger
• Naho Yoshida
• Anne Landsberger
• Anne Malhotra
• Bianca Wachtel
• Cecilia Grissa
• Mark Waters
• Peter Langmar
• Theresa Bruketta
• Sara Rahiman
• Valerin Lopez
• Victoria Hood
• Aurelie Arsouze
• Maria Lorenz
• Andrea Carroll
• Mallika Rao
• Roman Shumikhin
• Patrick Gary
• Ketil E. Jenesen
• Maxim Abelev
• Sheetal Elangovan
• Van Nga
• Arun Ponnusamy
• Olga Werby

Each contributor adds another interesting perspective to the Interfaces.com site. And contributors get to know each other and become friends and collaborators on projects: this is where good ideas come from!

Converting Word Documents to Text Suitable for WordPress Posts

Here’s a procedure to convert a Word document into text suitable for pasting into a post in WordPress, while preserving bold and italic formatting.

1. Go to the following webpage: http://word2cleanhtml.com/
2. Make sure all the checkboxes on the right side are ticked.
3. Copy and paste the text from Word to the main window, replacing the text “Paste your document here”
4. Press the convert to clean html button.
5. Go to the resulting view tab.
6. Copy all the text that’s there. That’s what you want to paste into your WordPress blog post.

RSA Animate: Where Good Ideas Come From.

by Steven Johnson