Dogs on Design: Surtees’ Oversized Lap Dog

pemIn this fifth post in our series, Dogs on Design, a href=”http://raleighpop.com/”Raleigh Pop/a blogger Sarah F. Cox sat down with designer Michael Surtees, an interaction designer at a href=”http://behaviordesign.com/”Behavior/a. They talked about how humans behave on the web and how dogs behave in the park. /em/p

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pI’m trying to ask Michael Surtees serious questions about his design critique of the mobile application a href=”http://foursquare.com/”Foursquare/a, but I’m a bit distracted. His weimaraner, Madison, keeps trying to crawl into his lap. We are seated on a bench in Washington Square Park at 9 am on a hot August Saturday and the slanted sun is already starting to bake sunbathers while some sort of work-out club is lunging and lifting in the shade. The park is a mid-point in one of the shorter walking routes Surtees and Madison take down Fifth Avenue. For a longer walk, they’ll head north on Park Avenue to 42nd Street and loop back south to 23rd Street en route to the apartment. “What I like about that walk is that the sidewalks are wide, washed daily, and I get to observe Grand Central Station for several blocks.” As a Canadian import, Surtees is still struck by New York icons after four years here. “While I live pretty close to the Empire State Building I never take it for granted. It’s pretty rare for me not to stop at a light on Fifth Avenue, look up to that building and smile. That this is my normal view walking Madison.”/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/dogs_on_design_surtees_oversized_lap_dog_17274.asp”(more…)/a
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