The Interaction Design Association of today is not the IxDG or even InteractionDesigners.com of yesteryear. The organization has grown faster than the rising stock of Apple over the the short 7 years since Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini made his call to action that gave conception to this organization. This is my ...
Found this great interview done by @JohnnyHolland of Mark Baskinger, Professor of Industrial Design & Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He talks beautiful about drawing and what value it gives the designer. Can't wait to reference this as part of my "secret sauce" workshop @UxLx next month in Lisbon.
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Finally got 2 seconds on my friend's iPad today. Can't walk into Best Buy because I don't trust myself. I played with it for maybe 5min tops and a lot of that time was with my little boy tuggin' at my sleeve saying, "What's this?" So this is by no ...
It's not even an insurmountable disadvantage. Just a disadvantage.
I go back and forth with my appreciation for and my disfavor of open systems. I believe that everyone has taken sides in the world. You either believe in government or you don't. That is to say, you believe that agencies can ...
I came across a piece about the iPad from @petterihilsila, entitled Game-Changers Are Usually Imperfect. Normally, I wouldn't post something just about the iPad, but I think this piece highlights for me the importance of platform design over component design in products and services (especially where they are combined).
Before Saturday, when ...
In my last piece, I discussed an important part of design education which is lessons in humanities especially rhetoric and comparative literature. I discussed the importance of frames as well as narrative. But it doesn't end there. These concepts--frames and narrative--are just tools for something bigger, which is meaning.
As human ...
[Continuing my series on design education]
I feel blessed to have come to design in a serpentine path. I came to be a designer after being an anthropologist. Not only did I get the obvious dose of social sciences like anthropology, sociology and psychology, but I got a strong does of ...
Continuing what is now becoming a series I want to talk about the importance of Art and add a well rounded Art education inclusive of fine arts, art history and art criticism as part of any solid design education.
15. Art: Expression, craft, context & criticism
Design's history comes from the arts. ...