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Posts Tagged ‘Design’
Review of Change By Design
Design thinking is a frustrating topic for strangers to the subject. It is not a concrete process for creating innovation; there is no instruction manual for design. You can learn to rules for research or color theory and typography, but you really only learn design by doing it. Design thinking doesn’t just require you to [...]
Technology thinking like Van Der Rhoe
Let me preface this by saying I want the next touchscreen phone, camera, video player, Swiss-army knife as much as the next guy (maybe more, I don’t like the one I have). But for the past I don’t know how long, simplicity has been a rallying cry expertly advocated by John Maeda in his book [...]
Paper or Plastic? A Review of Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, by Nathan Shedroff.
This is not a book about environmentalism. It will not tell you to use soy ink and CFLs to make your studio green. This is a book about sustainability, a distinction of utmost importance. This distinction takes us down the road of environmentalism but also brings along it’s siblings social and financial change. These tag-alongs [...]
ReThinking Sustainable Housing
The annual U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a “competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house”. Twenty universities from around the world are competing to help determine the future of sustainable housing. Most of the houses meet the second requirement, they run on solar power during the day [...]
Necessary Evil
More of a sideways relation to information design. Smashing Magazine has a nice article on advertising in web design, an issue I’m currently wrestling with. Integrating advertising is a crucial role in the design of the webpage if you want to make a page that makes you and your clients happy. Every-time I deal with this issue my mind begins [...]
Election Interactions
Ever four years (yes I know they’ll start on the new one in about a week) elections enter our lives bringing with them many things including constant tv, radio, newspaper ads and bitter family debates. Most of the election baggage is annoying but for designers there is one huge bonus, a slew of beautiful well [...]
It’s That Time Again
The design of ballots has become one of the most famous examples of design’s impact on the world. Since the butterfly ballot, there has been much talk of improving the ballots, but little progress. This year’s ballots in North Carolina are not much better. The question I have is when are they going to let [...]
Storytelling
Jonathan Harris is a story teller. In the tradition of the best story tellers he uncovers glimpses of life, and allows you to reconstruct the rest. You can hear him speak about his work at TED Dec 2007 here or here. His now old project We Feel Fine or his more recent The Whale Hunt are beautiful [...]
Wayfinding
This blog tends to focus on the online world, not because there is a preference but because it’s the medium that gives us our voice. The longer I spend in the online world the more I am amazed by it’s similarity to the more traditional offline world. Compare the flow diagramming of a way finding [...]