So as our neighbors to the south prepare for an onslaught of turkey and cranberries, I’ve started thinking about design in Canada, prompted by a Twitter chat with Nora Young, host of CBC’s Spark. In 2007, Nora ran a two part series on design on Canada’s heavyweight thinking show IDEAS. Called By Design: The Politics [...]
As I cursed iTunes during my third attempt to download the iPhone 2.2 update, I asked my Twitter peeps what they would consider the weakest link in the overall Apple experience, and started off by nominating my nemesis iTunes. People nominated MobileMe, iCal, and the Genius Bar (Apple’s support section at the Apple Store). Apple [...]
These are my links for November 19th from 12:06 to 12:06: Flashbulb Interaction | Working through Screens Book – Jacob Burghardt offers an online book (in PDF and HTML) with 100 ideas about how to create applications for knowledge work. Beautiful illustrations and useful patterns abound. I'm considering printing it.
These are my links for November 14th from 17:07 to 17:07: Minority Report User Interface OS – Oblong Industries has developed an OS (or maybe just a shell?) for gestural manipulation a la Minority Report. Geeks of the world will finally get exercise at work.
People getting into design research often wonder what gear they need. While there’s some interesting concepts for dedicated research hardware, a camera and a notebook are enough to do great things. You may not be tackling complex ethnographic study, or a granular time and motion analysis, but for gaining insight into real world context, getting [...]
These are my links for November 13th from 15:27 to 15:27: Flickr: Paul Hughes: Design Thinking's Photostream – Paul Hughes shares his multiple notebooks full of fascinating visualization, diagrams, and commentary on design thinking and creativity. Awesome. Well worth visiting and revisiting.
These are my links for November 12th from 11:27 to 11:27: Creating a Dutch Coin Design – Not the usual bplusd fare, but a great story about the conceptual design behind a commemorative coin. Architecture and algorithms aplenty.
These are my links for November 6th from 15:55 to 16:44: The new politics of class war point to a frightening future – Richard Florida op-ed on potential backlash against the creative class from the heartland of America. The Designful Company (pdf) – Marty Neumeier shares his thoughts on evangelizing design thinking in this DMI [...]
This week, Jump announced their upcoming title, Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy. Available in January, Wired to Care tackles one of the big problems with innovation—it’s not about technical superiority, innovation is about application. Empathy is key to seeing how new technology or process can improve people’s work, play, relationships, [...]
Warning: politics ahead. You’re welcome to stop reading now. Living in Canada, I’m more of an observer than a participant in the current American contest. I have four siblings living in the US, I’m a US citizen, and if I were to describe my politics, I’d say antipartisan (or maybe jaded). The bickering on both sides, [...]
